dvd's

[kingdeacon]

quick question, if i hire a dvd from the video shop can i copy it to my hard drive? with out taking up loads of space but still keeping it good quality. what software do i need? and then can i burn it to a cd? thanks for any help.........rob

[GT]

You can rip DVD to VCD, but very time consuming and needs lots of HDD space. Not worth the trouble in my opinion. You can buy DVD Silvers at a fraction of the cost of originals and in most cases the quality is the same.

[Jezz_S13]

Yeah, you need about 5-10 gig to start with, depending on the length of the film.

You have to rip the DVD to HDD first, once you have done that it straips the video and audio oout, so you need the extra space.

When it's finished though you can delete all the VOBs and temp files and are left with a 700mb avi file.

You can also burn them to VCD, quality not as good but a std DVD player can play them.

have a look here www.ddigest.com (http://www.ddigest.com) for software and instuctions.
Divx is the best compression to quality method and a film will fit on a CD.

I used to use a prog called rippak, it's basically a kit for ripping DVD'd.

Smartripper is worth a look too.

Oh it takes fecking ages about 8 hours on a p3 450.

Jezz.

[kingdeacon]

8 hours!!!!!!!! god thats a long time, would it be a bit faster on my 1.2 AMD?
thanks for the info guys

[Jezz_S13]

Should be, take my mate about 2-3hours on a duel P3 1GHz.

Just leave it overnight.

[RichardM]

Is anybody using a DVD-R as yet? if so what sort of times for copying?

[kingdeacon]

right i ripped a dvd to the hard drive, what do i do with it now? how do i make it smaller? or whatch it?

[Jezz_S13]

So you got a load of Vob files on your HDD then?
You did rip them off the DVD and not just copythem didn't you?

Now you need something to decode,recode it.

Go here and have a look. http://www.divx-digest.com/software/index.html

Like I said before I used to use Rippak, it's a bit old but it works so just get that.
You will need to move the files you have just ripped into the vobs directory inside the rippak dir after you have installed it.

jezz