Popcorn 2 goes Universal

I have worked in professional DVD creation for eight years now and I can tell you, without a doubt, that Popcorn has the best re-compression of any consumer product there is. that is it's main strength. Use it in tandem with Mac the Ripper and you have a great way to backup your encrypted DVD's (only if they are 4.4GB and abovewhich most commercial DVD's are) and burn them to DVD.

I'm a Popcorn 1 user. Yes, you have to use Mac the Ripper first for copy-protected DVDs. But Popcorn works flawlessly at doing what it's made to do: burning (and compressing when necessary) DVDs from VIDEO_TS folders.

I have a question if anyone is fully familiar with the new Popcorn 2, though. I've read through the specs and can't quite tell whether they've added this capability or not. It says it can import MOV and MPG files. Is that only for exporting to handheld devices, or does it now have the capability to include those movie files in a DVD burn? Because THAT would be really convenient!

The main purpose of Popcorn is to recompress a DVD9 disc to a single layer DVD. Yes, there is lots of cool free stuff that recompresses to MPEG4, but that doesn't play in most DVD players.

Popcorn seems to me like a waste of money.

You can take a VIDEO_TS folder and image it with DVD-Imager, then burn it in disk utility - all for free!

Yeah, Handbrake is cool and all, but...
1) It's slow as hell to do a full DVD
2) The quality you get from ripping with Mac the Ripper and compressing to fit a 4.7GB DVD with Popcorn is pretty amazing.
3) With a Dual-layer burner you barely need Popcorn to compress at the disc at all.

I make "road copies" of all my DVD's so I don't have to worry about scratching up my precious originals when I'm traveling. I'm using Popcorn 1.0.3 still, but I'm definitely going to upgrade to check out the iPod and PSP compression.

Yes, Popcorn gives you a warning if you attempt to copy a retail DVD Or one with DRM.

Popcorn is a subset/one trick pony from Toast Titanium but it's pretty good if all you want to do is convert ripped Video_TS files back a DVD format (and now some others) as it can fit them in a variety of ways on a single/dual layer, etc ... it's a nice app for people who don't want to deal with a couple addition steps doing it with Toast Titanium.

Handbrake is pretty amazing - it will do whatever you ask - NTSC, PAL, etc and it's ready for Popcorn to complete the task.

Popcorn? Psh. Try Handbrake Lite from the creator of iSquint. You can do some fine tuning, but your final videos will always be MPEG4 and iPod ready (probably PSP ready, as well).

http://isquint.org/handbrakelite/

Pity when I bought it that they sent me version bloody one!!

It won't work with store-bought DVDs, but there is a universal version of Mac the Ripper available, which will take care of that problem. But this is great news. I can now rip and burn DVDs on my Macbook Pro without any slowdown.

Is Popcorn a Toast lite or am I totally wrong