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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. Anybody have a handy clue? Thanks Richard |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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a more aesthetic option is the 2 TB network attached drive that Fryes has
for a few more $$ "cavelamb himself" wrote in message ... 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. Anybody have a handy clue? Thanks Richard -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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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 |
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cavelamb himself wrote:
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. Anybody have a handy clue? You have to rip DVD (google "dvd riping") using any of tons of programs available. BUT to rip you have to "crack" DVD encoding, and this would constitue 'piracy' - especially if you intent to see movies aboard (there is no piracy without some kind of vessel - just by definition of this word). |
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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. |
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Use
http://www.magicdvdripper.com/ backup movie only (not trailers, bonus,language, subtitles) to HD. Averages 5 gig per movie. Takes 1/2 hour per DVD. Play back off HD with Nero or WinDVD Gold (Corel) Get an NVDIA graphic card and watch on any TV I'm sure there are other options. |
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Iggy, do you lose anything in that conversion? Like resolution? You do, but normally very little. I tried this. The loss is not constant. Much of a given movie will be fine. Then a few minutes of terrible. (Of course always an action or skin scene) HDs are cheap, I went to full quality. Karl |
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:03:21 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, "Tom
Gardner" quickly quoth: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. We won't comment on your Freudian slip, thilly boy. ----------------------------------------------------------------- When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. --Steven Wright ---------------------------- |
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"cavelamb himself" wrote in message ... 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. Anybody have a handy clue? Thanks Richard I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. To convert to hard disk files like .avi, it will take you weeks and weeks of work even though you will fit them all on a 750. Take the disks! So, you watch movies on the boat and play computer fishing games at home? |
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:03:21 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, "Tom Gardner" quickly quoth: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. We won't comment on your Freudian slip, thilly boy. ----------------------------------------------------------------- When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. --Steven Wright WHAT! I MEANT to say that! ~ |
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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 |
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On Nov 9, 2:03 pm, "Tom Gardner" wrote:
"cavelamb himself" wrote in message ... 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. Anybody have a handy clue? Thanks Richard I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Is having 50 dicks the norm in Cleveland? :-D Chris |
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On 2007-11-09, Christopher Tidy wrote:
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. I hold the same exact opinion. The way I convert disks to AVIs is by using this script of mine. It works with Linux. #!/usr/bin/perl use Getopt::Long; my $dvd = '/dev/dvd'; my $output = 'ripped.avi'; GetOptions( "dvd=s" = \$dvd, "output=s" = \$output, ); if( 0 ) { system( " transcode \\ -i $dvd -x dvd -T 1,-1 -g 720x480 -M 2 -V \\ -X 2,0 -Y 0,0 -s 4.47 \\ -t 83920,alien -y divx4 -w 1618 -f 23.976 \\ -U $output " ); } elsif( 0 ) { system( " transcode -i $dvd -x dvd -V -j 16,0 -B 5,0 -Y 40,8 -s 4.47 -U $output -y xvid -w 1618 " ); } elsif( 1 ) { system( " mencoder dvd:// -dvd-device $dvd -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -alang en -oac copy -o /dev/null mencoder dvd:// -dvd-device $dvd -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1000 -alang en -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o $output " ); } i |
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On Nov 9, 11:40 am, "Karl Townsend"
wrote: Iggy, do you lose anything in that conversion? Like resolution? You do, but normally very little. I tried this. The loss is not constant. Much of a given movie will be fine. Then a few minutes of terrible. (Of course always an action or skin scene) HDs are cheap, I went to full quality. Karl Credits usually look awful as well. The encoding system is a bit like a Fourier transform: it takes a lot of data to make things with sharp edges and high contrast look good. Chris |
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"Tom Gardner" writes:
I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Ewww. |
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:40:43 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm,
Christopher Tidy quickly quoth: On Nov 9, 2:03 pm, "Tom Gardner" wrote: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Is having 50 dicks the norm in Cleveland? :-D It's the water pollution. Love Canal didn't have anything on them. (Speaking of the canal, it was later proven that no higher rate of cancer came to the people who had lived there than to any other set of people tested in the USA.) -- Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. -- Charles Lindbergh |
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:40:43 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Christopher Tidy quickly quoth: On Nov 9, 2:03 pm, "Tom Gardner" wrote: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Is having 50 dicks the norm in Cleveland? :-D It's the water pollution. Love Canal didn't have anything on them. (Speaking of the canal, it was later proven that no higher rate of cancer came to the people who had lived there than to any other set of people tested in the USA.) Oh, please tell us about that proof. I've always thought that benzene got a bad rap, and there's 22,000 tons of toxic waste still buried there. It could be valuable. d8-) -- Ed Huntress |
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"Joe Pfeiffer" wrote in message ... "Tom Gardner" writes: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Ewww. Is that floppy dicks or hard dicks? Karl |
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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 |
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Coyher wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote: 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. Anybody have a handy clue? You have to rip DVD (google "dvd riping") using any of tons of programs available. BUT to rip you have to "crack" DVD encoding, and this would constitue 'piracy' - especially if you intent to see movies aboard (there is no piracy without some kind of vessel - just by definition of this word). I dunno - under the fair use clause, this is not illegal. I can't watch both at once (the litimus test) Basically the same thing as with the video iPods. But we can fly the pitate flag anyway :) |
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Tom Gardner wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:03:21 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, "Tom Gardner" quickly quoth: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. We won't comment on your Freudian slip, thilly boy. ----------------------------------------------------------------- When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. --Steven Wright WHAT! I MEANT to say that! ~ Kinda depends on the movie, huh? |
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Coyher wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote: 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. Anybody have a handy clue? You have to rip DVD (google "dvd riping") using any of tons of programs available. BUT to rip you have to "crack" DVD encoding, and this would constitue 'piracy' - especially if you intent to see movies aboard (there is no piracy without some kind of vessel - just by definition of this word). Ahh, could be a winner. I DLed the trial for - trial(?) If all goes well, I'll buy that one. Thanks Richard |
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On Nov 9, 5:03 pm, "Karl Townsend"
wrote: "Joe Pfeiffer" wrote in message ... "Tom Gardner" writes: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Ewww. Is that floppy dicks or hard dicks? Karl Tom can turn your floppy disk into a hard drive. Chris |
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cavelamb himself wrote:
.... I have a little over 1000 movies stored on DVD disks. .... 750 Gig USB drive ... would hold about 100 movies. .... I doubt that there's more than 100 movies that I'd want to watch a 2nd time, so I'd put those 100 on the drive and forget the rest. Admit it, you'll never watch most of them again. Bob |
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:46:29 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm,
Christopher Tidy quickly quoth: On Nov 9, 5:03 pm, "Karl Townsend" wrote: "Joe Pfeiffer" wrote in message ... "Tom Gardner" writes: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Ewww. Is that floppy dicks or hard dicks? Karl Tom can turn your floppy disk into a hard drive. You just outed yourself with that one, Chris. chortle -- Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. -- Charles Lindbergh |
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cavelamb himself wrote:
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? Just copy files from DVD to the HD, somehow adding movies names, thats all. There are lot of programs able to play DVD file-system. Maqcromedia is not worts here - deCSS is important. C. |
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:16:27 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth: "Larry Jaques" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:40:43 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Christopher Tidy quickly quoth: On Nov 9, 2:03 pm, "Tom Gardner" wrote: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Is having 50 dicks the norm in Cleveland? :-D It's the water pollution. Love Canal didn't have anything on them. (Speaking of the canal, it was later proven that no higher rate of cancer came to the people who had lived there than to any other set of people tested in the USA.) Oh, please tell us about that proof. I've always thought that benzene got a bad rap, and there's 22,000 tons of toxic waste still buried there. It could be valuable. d8-) New York state says so, too. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22love+canal%22+cancer I think I first read it in _Earth Report 2000_ or _The Skeptical Environmentalist_. -- Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. -- Charles Lindbergh |
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Got a HD recorder ?
I changed my living room system when we upgraded the old HD DISH 3LNA to a HD 5 LNA super wide oval antenna. Our HD Sony Plasma is 2+ years old now and running fine. No burns. I took out the AV amp (for the shop natch) and hooked all directly into the Sony. Now for the news for all. The Sony disk player that came with the old (2+ yrs old) AV amp and it had the unique HD 5 wire connections. Before we used the yellow video out. What a difference. The CD's are being displayed as HD's - almost as good as and much better than that of the use of the yellow + 2 sound. See if you can get around it that way. The TV has I/O ports to the Tape deck. I record HD picture that is down converted to higher than normal quality video when the tape is played or recorded on a DVD recorder. Higher quality signals. Martin Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member. http://lufkinced.com/ cavelamb himself wrote: 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 ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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What I hate is I have disks that don't have that. The Sony disk/tape unit
and others - dam industry - state that my DVD's that I own the IP on can't be copied. So I do it on my computer. The default oh - a disk - no copy ability... Violates copyright and patent law in a number of places. Where is my backup. Where is my working copy. Where is my archive copy. Legally 3 copies - or 2+1. Three storage sites - one off site. But who ever counts on that. The 'industry' baulked at copies stating a replacement policy. Do you know of any DVD that has been replaced ? No we generally just buy another and the industry rips us again. Time and issue to get a DVD is expensive. Martin Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member. http://lufkinced.com/ Coyher wrote: cavelamb himself wrote: 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. Anybody have a handy clue? You have to rip DVD (google "dvd riping") using any of tons of programs available. BUT to rip you have to "crack" DVD encoding, and this would constitue 'piracy' - especially if you intent to see movies aboard (there is no piracy without some kind of vessel - just by definition of this word). ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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'to any other set of people tested..' - Well the lawyers are at work -
We test this broken pipeline area that has high cancer and compare. We test this gasoline storage depot region - and compare. We test the local town next to the Agent Green manufacturing site - and compare... So Love matched the others +/- 50% It must be normal.... Yea right. Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member. http://lufkinced.com/ Ed Huntress wrote: "Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:40:43 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Christopher Tidy quickly quoth: On Nov 9, 2:03 pm, "Tom Gardner" wrote: I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each. Is having 50 dicks the norm in Cleveland? :-D It's the water pollution. Love Canal didn't have anything on them. (Speaking of the canal, it was later proven that no higher rate of cancer came to the people who had lived there than to any other set of people tested in the USA.) Oh, please tell us about that proof. I've always thought that benzene got a bad rap, and there's 22,000 tons of toxic waste still buried there. It could be valuable. d8-) -- Ed Huntress ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:29:22 -0800, Coyher wrote:
You have to rip DVD (google "dvd riping") using any of tons of programs available. BUT to rip you have to "crack" DVD encoding, and this would constitue 'piracy' - Not even a little. Fair Use is most certainly the case when you're making a copy for yourself. MPAA and RIAA's FUD aside, I can listen to stuff I've bought in any format I damn well please. |
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cavelamb himself wrote:
I dunno - under the fair use clause, this is not illegal. I can't watch both at once (the litimus test) Basically the same thing as with the video iPods. But we can fly the pitate flag anyway :) The doom9.org website is a good source of info. I used to use DVDDecrypter but the author no longer maintains it. Wes |
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Coyher wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote: 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? Just copy files from DVD to the HD, somehow adding movies names, thats all. There are lot of programs able to play DVD file-system. Maqcromedia is not worts here - deCSS is important. C. I thought DVDs were like CDs. The files are just pointers to the data on the disk. But the data wasn't "filed" Wrong? |
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Bob Engelhardt wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote: ... I have a little over 1000 movies stored on DVD disks. ... 750 Gig USB drive ... would hold about 100 movies. ... I doubt that there's more than 100 movies that I'd want to watch a 2nd time, so I'd put those 100 on the drive and forget the rest. Admit it, you'll never watch most of them again. Bob Actually, about once a pear each. We quit watching "TV" so I'm substituting classic movies for re-runs. Gonna pull out A Christmas Story soon for the kids. Teenaged girls - and thy've never see it!?! |
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"cavelamb himself" wrote in message ... What would I use to convert to AVI? Any suggestions for software to do this? Richard I don't think it converts to AVI but DVD Shrink will allow you to strip out all of the unnecessary things like previews, extras and additional languages. I've been able to scrap nearly half the contents of a DVD and as a plus, it plays immediately when you put it in. This is especially useful for Disney DVDs, they are the absolute worse for getting to the movie quickly. Shawn |
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cavelamb himself wrote:
Coyher wrote: cavelamb himself wrote: 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? Just copy files from DVD to the HD, somehow adding movies names, thats all. There are lot of programs able to play DVD file-system. Maqcromedia is not worts here - deCSS is important. C. I thought DVDs were like CDs. The files are just pointers to the data on the disk. But the data wasn't "filed" Wrong? Yes, wrong - DVDs like CDs with MP3 files on them so for unencripted DVDs copying could be done with simple 'cp' command. Just open the DVD with explorer or whatever you have and you will see all those huge files on them. File-system name is UDF. C. |
Computer question (OT, of course)
cavelamb himself wrote:
Coyher wrote: cavelamb himself wrote: 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? Just copy files from DVD to the HD, somehow adding movies names, thats all. There are lot of programs able to play DVD file-system. Maqcromedia is not worts here - deCSS is important. C. I thought DVDs were like CDs. The files are just pointers to the data on the disk. But the data wasn't "filed" And, by the way - what you described - IS file system, but rather primitive. If you create file-system layer for your OS able to deal with this format then you would see CD-ROM as disk with, for example 20 big files, named like Track05, and content of the file would be of simple WAV format, so you could copy/listen those files (to listen WAV one have to feed the data samples to the DAC with appropriate speed and nothing more - you could do it thru the LPT port on PC with some resitors connected). C. |
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