cdr to Mpeg

[MotionMan]

I am such a noob when it comes to dealing with movie files:

What are the steps to turn a cdr file into an Mpeg (or other iTunes compatible format)?

MotionMan

 

[silverpig]

If it's a .cdr file, then it's a vector image file.

If you mean you have a CD-R (burned disk) image, then it depends on the disk image format. Generally you mount the image, then open/rip the movie with iTunes.

 

[MotionMan]

If it's a .cdr file, then it's a vector image file.

If you mean you have a CD-R (burned disk) image, then it depends on the disk image format. Generally you mount the image, then open/rip the movie with iTunes.

It's a movie (moviename.cdr).

How do it mount it?

How do I open/rip it with iTunes?

See, I am a total noob.

MotionMan

 

[dave_the_nerd]

.cdr is a .iso file with a different name. If it's a movie, just mount it by double clicking and use handbrake to encode. (If it's ripped, whoever make the .cdr/.iso should have already deCSS'd it... otherwise they're 'tards.)

 

[silverpig]

It's a movie (moviename.cdr).

How do it mount it?

How do I open/rip it with iTunes?

See, I am a total noob.

MotionMan

Just google "how to mount .cdr on <mac/windows/linux/amiga/C64/whatever>"

 

[MotionMan]

.cdr is a .iso file with a different name. If it's a movie, just mount it by double clicking and use handbrake to encode. (If it's ripped, whoever make the .cdr/.iso should have already deCSS'd it... otherwise they're 'tards.)

I think I may have been the one who ripped it, and I am a 'tard when it comes to this, so it is very likely that I did not "deCSS'd" it, especially since I do not know what that means.

MotionMan

 

[ponyo]

Can't you just rename it to ISO and mount it with handbrake and convert it? Or use VLC or XBMC to play directly without doing any conversion.

 

[MotionMan]

Can't you just rename it to ISO and mount it with handbrake and convert it? Or use VLC or XBMC to play directly without doing any conversion.

I dunno, can i?



MotionMan

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yes: you can just rename the .cdr file to an .iso. It's the same container format.

No. Handbrake doesn't mount .iso files. You need another utility to mount on a PC. On a Mac, just double click it to mount.

Once it's mounted, you can feed it to Handbrake.

If you ripped it to a .cdr file, you were presumably using Disk Utility on a Mac. If there were copy protection, the rip would have failed.

Unless you were using Fairmount with Disk Utility to rip a copy protected DVD. But you'd know if you'd done that. Unless you were really wasted or something. (I got drunk in February, reactivated my Star Trek Online account as F2P, and completed every mission and quest they'd added since launch. I barely remember any of it.)

Why all the winky winky?

 

[MotionMan]

Why all the winky winky?

Sort of like how people give a little laugh after asking a seemingly stupid question. I know these are really simply things, but I just do not deal with movies enough to have learned them.

So the winks are cries for leniency.

MotionMan

 

[akugami]

Try this.

Download a utility to mount disc images like MagicISO which is free and install it.

Rename the file from name.cdr to name.iso.

Mount the disc image, it should be in a virtual CD/DVD drive.

If you can mount the image, see if you can access the contents of the mounted image.

If you can, then you're half way home. Assuming there is no copy protection, copy the files you find to somewhere you can easily access.

Use something like Handbrake to convert the file to a different format.

 

[silverpig]

First: are you using windows or osx?

 

[MotionMan]

First: are you using windows or osx?

OSX.

MotionMan

 

[silverpig]

OSX.

MotionMan

Double click the .cdr file and it will mount. Then use handbrake to re-encode the video.