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Joe
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 10:11pm
I have ~45 or so DVD's that i would like to copy to my HD, so i dont have to keep track of the disc's. I have an extra 120 gig HD to do this with, so file size is not to important (under 1gig per movie?). Are there any tools i can purchase to do this? Resolution dosent need to be great, but i would like to beable to run the video full screen without much pixalation. (1280 x 1024 / 18" vis).

Do i need to take anything else into concideration before doing so? I have a P4 2.4 w/ 512 DDR 2100 ram.
Jake Bunce
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 10:15pm
rip em to divx

http://www.doom9.org/
filburt1
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 10:27pm
BTW expect 750 MB per movie for acceptable quality in a 1:30 movie.
NetherChris
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 10:47pm
Yep, Jake pointed you right.... the DivX guides at doom9 are what you want. More specifically, this is what i'd recommend. http://www.doom9.org/gknot-main3.htm

Anywho, with that system and your processor you're looking at 3-4 hour total conversion time (maybe less, maybe more) and as filburt said, about 700-800mb per medium quality rip. You can go HQ which will take longer but look better at fullscreen for about 1.5gb per movie, but the rip times will take much longer.

Also note to do this you're gonna need ASPI installed on your machine, instructions are there... and you'll be running a slightly shady DVD decryption method to remove the region encoding, which depending on where you live may be illegal (but nobody will probably ever care)

--Chris
Jake Bunce
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 10:59pm
Anywho, with that system and your processor you're looking at 3-4 hour total conversion time (maybe less, maybe more)

my brother does lots of rips. He has a P4 2.5 (OCed 1.6a) with 1GB of PC1066 RAMBUS (OCed PC800).

He does complete rips in 2 hours.
Joe
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 11:06pm
*nod* Thanks guys :)
Vile
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 11:17pm
Much better help + tutorials at www.vcdhelp.com (http://www.vcdhelp.com) and www.dvdrhelp.com (http://www.dvdrhelp.com)

DivX is nice, but personally I'd go for Xvid (much better quality)
NetherChris
Sat 22nd Feb '03, 11:38pm
my brother does lots of rips. He has a P4 2.5 (OCed 1.6a) with 1GB of PC1066 RAMBUS (OCed PC800).

He does complete rips in 2 hours.

Guess my 800mhz t-bird A-gen isn'y what it was :)
Nicholas Brown
Sun 23rd Feb '03, 6:55am
Use the XViD codec instead of Divx - better quality and you dont get dark patches :)

sorry Vile - didnt see you're post :(