Christopher Tidy wrote:
On Nov 9, 9:47 am, _
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:49:49 -0600, 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

The time to convert 1500 hours might be a factor.

As might the capabilities offered by the DVD itself (chapters, subtitles,
etcetera).

Sony makes a *real* jukebox that holds 300 DVD's. They also made DVD's
that won't work right in it (probably due to the rootkit copy-protection
scheme). DVP-CX995V.


In my opinion, chapters and menus and copyright warnings suck. To be
rid of them and just be able to watch the movie would be an
improvement.

Chris


A lot of these (mebe 30-40%) are copied from old VHS tapes,
so the DVD resolution issue is a non-starter.

ALL of the copies have had the MacroMedia BS removed.
(I (heart) my GoDVD box)

the 1500 (actually more like 2000!) hours of conversion time
brings me back to my origonal question -
is there some way to simply rip the DVD to HD?

(iggy's perl script not withstanding )


Richard