1. What is D5 and D9 ?

DVD-5 (Single Side Single Layer)
D5 holds around 4 700 000 000 bytes and that is 4.37 computer GB where 1 kbyte is 1024 bytes*. DVD+R/DVD+RW and DVD-R/DVD-RW support this format. This is the most common DVD Media, often called 4.7 GB Media.

DVD-9 (Single Side Dual Layer)
D9 holds around 8 540 000 000 bytes and that is 7.95 computer GB. DVD+R support this format. This media is called DVD+R9, DVD+R DL or 8.5 GB Media. A DVD-9 (dual layer) disc and hold 240 minutes of continuous video.

2. Why to Compress DVD9 to DVD5?

From above we can know the most important difference between DVD9 and DVD5 is capacity, the capacity of DVD9 is twice as DVD5, and many wonderful DVD movies are DVD9 format. But now why we need to compress DVD9 movies to DVD5?

First, DVD5 is cheaper than DVD9. If you want to make more copies of your favorite DVD movies, you’d better choose DVD5 disc to backup, it will save a lot of money.

Second, also another important thing: D5 is reusable and environmentally friendly disc.
You can see the disc you bought, which always display DVD-RW, DVD-R, etc. on their covers. A DVD-R is a write-once format, once you've burned the data onto that DVD platter, the disk is forever frozen with that information. Add the "W" to that, and you'll find that DVD-RW can be erased or rewritten up to a thousand times. In a similar way, the DVD+RW is defined as "DVD ReWritable" and DVD+R is defined as "DVD Recordable".

Creating ISO files of CDs or other disks you own is a convenient way to backup, archive or (if legal) share them. And it's actually quite easy to do. Most CD/DVD burning software includes the ability to rip or create an iso image.
With this ISO image you can : Distribution of software

Mount "virtual drives" which emulate physical CDs or DVDs, such as Virtual Computers. Better performance is achieved by running an ISO image since hard drive I/O is many times faster than CD/DVD drive I/O.

To use software titles that are written in such a way that they require a physical disk to be present in order to run. Games are commonly in this category. For backup, such as PSP backups.

Professional DVD Copy for Mac in particular, is perhaps one of the easiest tools to use for this purpose.

This is a tutorial on how to use DVD Copy (to ISO) Tool to create ISO image from DVD on Mac.
Just follow steps below to finish ISO creating.

Tools you need:
1. Mac computer with at least one writable DVD drive.
2. Free Download DVD Copy Program here:
http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-copy-pro.html#131

Step 1. Launch the DVD Copy program.
Step 2. Insert your DVD Disc.
Step 3. Choose "ISO" to copy DVD to ISO on Mac.
Step 4. Type in the DVD name and choose the location where you want to save.
Step 5. Start copying DVD to ISO on Mac and just wait for the burning finished.

Now you have finished creating an ISO File to your Mac, then you can enjoy watching your movie on your Mac or sharing with others.

Tips: You can review the ISO image by using the Finder to mount the .iso image (double click) and DVD Player to play the DVD by specifying the location of the VIDEO_TS folder in the mounted image.

Learn more: http://www.imediacreator.com/iso/dvd-to-iso-mac.html#131

When you have several .ISO files you have either downloaded from the Internet or saved as .iso files on your hard disk, and you want to burn them to DVD Discs to play on DVD Player, the following guide is going to show you how to burn .ISO files to sorts of DVD discs such as DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD-RAM on Mac OS X, especially on Snow Leopard.

1. What is ISO File?

ISO is a disk image defined by the International Organization for Standardization. ISO image files typically have a file extension of ISO. The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media, but an ISO image can also contain UDF file system because UDF is backward-compatible with ISO 9660. An ISO file contains the image of a disk, meaning that it contains every file and folder that the disk had.

2. How to Burn ISO Image Files to DVD on Mac OS X?

To burn ISO image files to sorts of discs(burn iso to dvd-r, burn iso to dvd+r, burn iso to dvd-rw, burn iso to dvd+rw, etc.) on Mac, you can use ISO to DVD Burner for Mac, which is a professional iso burner tool to burn iso image files to dvd on mac os x, especially on Snow Leopard.

You can Free Download ISO to DVD Burner here: http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-creator-standard.html#131

Step1. Add ISO Files to the program
After installing and running the program, you need to choose “ISO” to import file, then it will remind you “Drag ISO movie image here to start”, also you can click “+” to add your ISO Files to the program. See the interface below:

Step2. Burn ISO File to DVD Disc
Now you can start to burn ISO file to DVD Disc on Mac now, also you can see there are 2 methods you can choose to output: D5 and D9. Usually we choose D9 Disc to Burn.

3. Tips: How to Choose DVD Disc to Output your DVD File?

We are so pleased to upgrade our Mac to Snow Leopard, but when we want to burn videos and movies to DVDs on Leopard, the problem come out, what is the best DVD Burner for Snow Leopard? Try this DVD Burner for Mac Snow Leopard, you would love it.
http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-creator-standard.html#131

With the release of Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, you may consider how to copy/backup DVD on Snow Leopard, don't worry, DVD Copy for Snow Leopard is your assistant, with this Snow Leopard DVD Copy, you can not only backup DVD as ISO,VIDEO_TS,dvdmedia, but also copy your DVD to a new DVD Disc on Snow Leopard.
http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-copy-pro.html#131

Now, you download an .ISO files, and want to burn it to CD or DVD on your Mac. Fear not!

Here are 2 methods to Burn .ISO file to DVD on Mac.

1. Burn With Disk Utility

The delightfully useful Disk Utility built into OS X can burn disk images to optical media in a few easy steps.

2. Use DVD Creator Std to Burn ISO to DVD

DVD Creator Std(http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-creator-standard.html#131) is a professional software to Burn DVD. It can burn ISO to DVD with simple and practical edit function.
Just follow 4 steps:

Choose ISO to import file - Drag ISO to Program - Edit Videos - Burning

Step 1. Choose Video Type to import File
There are 4 video types, now you need to choose "ISO".

Step 2. Drag your ISO File to the program

Step 3. Add Effect
After clicking Edit button, the edit window will pop up. You can preview your videos one by one or just click the buttons to preview the next or former videos. Adjust video display screen in horizontal or vertical direction.

After finishing the setting, you can Sit back and wait while your new disc gets written!

Here we just gave an outline of burning ISO to DVD. DVD Creator Std also can help you to Burn AVI to DVD, Burn WMV to DVD, Burn MOV to DVD, etc. Especially burn VIDEO_TS to DVD, Burn .dvdmedia file to DVD.

Both above methods just burn ISO to DVD on the Mac work across platforms. This is really a great way to back up software installation to optical disk to free up space on your Mac's hard drive, why not try?

Free Download DVD Creator Std Here: http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-creator-standard.html#131

As we know, it’s so easy to copy dvd (dvd to iso, dvd to disc, dvd to dvd folder,dvd to player media) using mac dvd copy, But when the region dvds come out, maybe you are puzzled. Don’t worry, just need an external hard drive and a dvd copy software which can support External Hard Drive. Follow me the step-by-step guide on How to Copy Different Region DVDs on your Mac:
http://www.imediacreator.com/tutorial/how-to-copy-different-region-dvds-...

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Everybody knows that an error may occur when playing a DVD disc with a region code setting different than that of the drive. Now if you want to solve the problem and play your different region code DVDs on your computer, how to finish?

Now here recommend 2 methods to play different region DVD’s on your computer:
1.Change the region code setting of your computer.
You just have 5 chances to change the region code.

2. There is also a better method with using External Drive.
To use the External Drive, you do not need changing the region codes, most important, you can backup your favorite DVD easily.

Just follow the easy 3 steps :
Step 1: Prepare the External Optical Driver.
This drive is usually internal, however, as computer systems have evolved and different needs, threats, and circumstances have arisen, the additional external hard drive has become extremely popular.

Step 2: Free Download Mac DVD Copy Pro Program to Backup your different regions DVD.(http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-copy-pro.html#131)
Mac DVD Copy Pro supports to backup DVD to DVD Folder, DVD Disc, ISO, and DVD Player Media. It especially supports External Hard Drive.

Step 3 : It will costs about 30-45 minutes to Backup your DVD. You don’t need to be at the side of your computer during the whole copying process, you can go to sleep, listen to the music or read book and so on things. All the backup things will become so easy !
More Details for Playing Region DVDs on Mac : http://www.imediacreator.com/tutorial/how-to-play-different-regions-dvd-...

There are a lot of great movies being produced in Movie Festival every year. Want to backup these movies for collection? Mac optical driver cannot meet our demands anymore. That is why numbers of DVD Copy Software come out. Then how to choose the best and most suitable software for you? Here are 8 tips I summarize for selecting Mac DVD Copy Software:

1. User-friendly and Simple Operation.
This is basic requirement. If you do not like the software, you can not operate easily and no need to choose it.
2. Fast Burn Speed.
The time for burning a movie would be the faster the better in case for not influencing copy quality according to the fast paced modern life.
3. Support Copying Various DVD.
DVD+R, DVD-R, D5, D9…Just buy the DVD disc your want to use for copy.
4. With Compression Function or Not.
D9 disc is much more expensive than D5, you can save a lot of money if copy software with compression function.
5. Burned DVD Can be Played on DVD Player, not only on Mac.
6. Support External Driver or Not.
If you do not want to change the region code on your computer according to different region DVD, the best choice would be having an external driver. So your copy software must support external driver.
7. With Trial Version.
The software would be better with trial version so that you can try before purchasing.
8. Great Support Service.
It is the adding service for product. If you have the better support service, you can use the program more comfortable without worrying to pay extra money for continuous upgrade version.

After fiddling with many mac dvd copy software and wasting several DVDs, I finally selected DVD Copy Pro for Mac(http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-copy-pro.html#131). This software has everything you would like to see in a Mac DVD copy software, also very easy to use, just follow 5 steps:

1. Insert DVD Disc.
2. Select DVD Copy Method.
3. Program Settings .
4. Choose Place to Save Your DVD File.
5. Start Copying DVD.

How to Burn DVD to ISO File on Mac?

As we all know, sometimes, we want to save our favorite DVD not copying another DVD disk but saving in our computer. For such kind of condition, we will have two ways to storage our DVD, one to save as DVD Folder or ISO File. Of course, Create ISO file on Mac would give you an easy way to play your ISO file quickly and can be burned into DVD directly when you need. Now the step by step guide will teach you how to copy your DVD and create an ISO file on Mac quickly.

Step 1 Please launch the DVD Copy for Mac and insert your DVD.

Step 2 Choose “Copy to your hard disk” and “ISO Image” to copy DVD to ISO on Mac.

Step 3 Type in the DVD name and choose the location where you want to save.

Step 4 Start burning DVD to ISO on Mac and just wait for the burning finished.

Now you have finished creating an ISO File to your Mac, then you can enjoy watching your movie on your Mac.
And if anytime, you want to copy the ISO file to another DVD disc, just use disk utility to do that!

Go to know more about DVD to ISO Burner-DVD Copy for Mac: http://www.applemacvideo.com/mac-dvd-copy.html#131

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