Ignoramus3257 wrote:
On 2007-11-09, Gerry wrote:

On Nov 8, 8:49 pm, Ignoramus3257
wrote:

On 2007-11-09, cavelamb himself wrote:






A question for someone who knows...

I have a little over 1000 movies stored on DVD disks.
(It was a mad house when it was all VHS tapes!)
I'd like to have movies to watch at anchor aboard the boat.

It's partly a space issue.
And I don't want to take the disks out anyway.
So...

I checked at Fry's today.
750 Gig USB drive for just under $300.
That would hold about 100 movies.
(guessing an average of 7 Gig or so per title?)

But how to load them is the question...

"play" them on?
I can do this already - but the time factor is a bit
much at 1:1.

But I'm hoping to find some kind of special software to read
them on at much greater speed.

If you convert them to .avi files in format such as XviD, then the
movies would take about 750 megs each, so you can have about 1,000
movies per disk (give or take). They also have terabyte disks for sale
now.

i

Iggy, do you lose anything in that conversion? Like resolution?



You do, but normally very little.

i

What would I use to convert to AVI?

Any suggestions for software to do this?

Richard