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| Thread ID: 47487 | 2004-07-28 01:04:00 | Copying a DVD to an HD | naughtyboy (5758) | Press F1 |
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| 255902 | 2004-07-28 01:04:00 | What s/ware or h/ware do I need to do this ? | naughtyboy (5758) | ||
| 255903 | 2004-07-28 01:12:00 | You will need to have a DVD drive in your PC and this (http://www.dvdshrink.org) | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 255904 | 2004-07-28 03:21:00 | Of course, this is only for archival purposes, yes? robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 255905 | 2004-07-28 03:28:00 | Yes, I want my grandchildrens grandchildren to watch my.... err.... Home movies? ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 255906 | 2004-07-28 03:38:00 | Yea, I use it to put all my DVD's on my PC, which is networked with my modded xbox which is plugged into my tv. That way I can watch a DVD without fiddling around with the actual discs, which are stored safely away. :D Xbox Media Centre rocks! |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 255907 | 2004-07-28 03:56:00 | You're using an xbox as a media center pc? Interesting. Definitely want to know more. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 255908 | 2004-07-28 04:03:00 | Theres two ways of copying a DVD to your HDD. a.) use a program such as Virtual Dub and a combination of Video and Audio codecs to extract and compress the DVD. Benefits: Considerably smaller than a DVD from 650mb+ Cons: Time Consuming b.) use a program to rip .vob files from the DVD and use a vob player to play them, simarly you could rip an .iso of the DVD and use a program such as Daemon tools to mount it and then use it like a DVD. Benefits: relatively quick and easy Cons: the outputed file is huge within a few mb's of the size of the actual DVD Option A is widely regarded as the way to do it, but does take a while to compress the video (using Divx, Xvid etc). Check out http://www.doom9.org/ for more infomation its really good and has step by step guides. You can get programs that do all the work for you such as DVDshrink but doing it manually gives more options and a higher quality. Just remember its illegal to copy movies e.t.c so as Chilling said i hope its only Home movies your wanting to copy. P.S Robo your living a very sheltered life, why buy an xbox if your not going to use it as a media center? After all it just a rebadged PC. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 255909 | 2004-07-28 04:14:00 | The Xbox has been moddified without a mod chip. (The original Microsoft BIOS has been overwritten) Can also do it with a mod chip. Don't know what the legal stance is on modding an Xbox though. :D Once you have a modded Xbox you can then change the dashboard (The screen you get once the Xbox has booted) to one that allows you to do all sorts of things like playing DVD's without having to buy the DVD remote. Also makes it a multizone DVD player. Can play Xbox games bought from overseas. Can play all the old arcade games with one of the many available emulators. Can upgrade the original HDD to a bigger one. Can network it with a PC and run the Xbox Media Centre and play all your media files on your PC like DVD, DivX, MP3, JPG and heaps more. It rocks because I used have my PC sitting in my lounge hooked up to the TV/Stereo to do this. Now my PC is back in the study where it belongs and I use the XBox instead. Much smaller, neater, tidier etc and I can play XBox games! |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 255910 | 2004-07-28 04:15:00 | Pete, I know, I know. I just wasn't aware that it was hackable to be a media PC. It makes perfect sense that it is possible, and is a way lower cost option to a full blown PC. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 255911 | 2004-07-28 04:16:00 | >>Don't know what the legal stance is on modding an Xbox though. This gets my goat,who are MS or anyone else for that matter to say what you can do with gear you own?? Makes me sick. |
metla (154) | ||
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