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Thread ID: 79070	2007-05-07 05:56:00	Burning DVDs from an External Hard Disk Drive	allcamp (1882)	Press F1

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547995	2007-05-08 02:03:00	Im doing it in Linux using an app called HandBrake I took all our Family Videos around to a friends place and got them to use their DVD Recorder to put them onto DVD for me. Because not all DVDs are full (Some are half empty... theres about 50 of them...) Im encoding all the files that I rip at 800kbps with 96kbps AAC Audio. It auto-determines the best resolution but its around 592x440 I have been using Handbreak also (For Mac) for the music DVDs that I have. It works great and it's FREE! It is good to know that they have finally put out a Windows version. It was originally created for people who wanted to put their DVD collection onto their video capable iPods. Note: It is also good to have a lot of RAM on your machine for ripping DVDs.	winmacguy (3367)
547996	2007-05-08 02:43:00	if all you want is extra space an extra internal hdd is the cheapest option, and external one will cost you approx $100 more but there is the convenience factor. I've done this for some friends by connecting the VCR to the video & audio in ports on my tv tuner card and recording directly to the hdd at mpeg2 medium quality - approx 4.3 G per 2 hours and still better quality than the source tapes most of the time (fast motion pixellates). There wasn't any editing involved though just burnt direct to DVD without any further encoding. I was quite pleased with the results.	dugimodo (138)
547997	2007-05-08 09:37:00	Yeah, 320GB I picked up for about $120 :D So stoaked! WinMacGuy: It doesnt use as much for ripping as it does for Encoding, at least with NeroRecode. Yeah, it works well, been using it for 2-pass encoding (always) for a while now, much better than the output I was getting from standard NeroDigital files. Ive just tried out MediaCoder for Windows, very good too! Lotsa options! Dugimodo: To play back as Video DVD it would still need to be recoded, not into another format, but into filesystem structures etc.	Chilling_Silence (9)
547998	2007-05-08 09:44:00	Yeah, 320GB I picked up for about $120 :D So stoaked! WinMacGuy: It doesnt use as much for ripping as it does for Encoding, at least with NeroRecode. True, I only have 1GB of RAM on my machine, although it would be interesting to see how fast it would rip with 2GB RAM. It will be interesting to see the different times when I start rendering and exporting some of the home videos that I have in progress with 1GB RAM	winmacguy (3367)
547999	2007-05-08 10:47:00	Ive done a lot of ripping on machines with <512MB Ram... Depending on the app, uses more CPU than memory :) Keep Task Manager open next time you use DVD Shrink, then try the same DVD with DVD Decryptor (both in .VOB mode, not ISO), then try it again with something like Slysofts app... Honestly, Im not certain of the results, but I'd love to see the mem / cpu usage for each :) If I had a DVD handy Id give it a whirl myself... in fact, if you've got 1GB Ram, Ive got 512MB in my laptop... lets compare :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
548000	2007-05-08 11:05:00	If I had a DVD handy Id give it a whirl myself... in fact, if you've got 1GB Ram, Ive got 512MB in my laptop... lets compare :D Judging by the performance of my old PC with XP Home which had/has (sitting next to me switched off) 512MB RAM with an AMD 2200 CPU I think, my iMac (2.16Ghz C2D)with 1GB is not too bad. I find I tend to have several things going simultaneously rather than one app running "really fast". Currently ripping Brook Fraser DVD using 2 pass encoding with 256kb aac and h.264 codec.	winmacguy (3367)
548001	2007-05-08 12:38:00	256kbps AAC is high... I find that for most movies 96-128kbps suffices ;) Which h.264 encoder? x264?	Chilling_Silence (9)
548002	2007-05-08 20:47:00	Dugimodo: To play back as Video DVD it would still need to be recoded, not into another format, but into filesystem structures etc. Not re-encoded so much as chopped into VOB files which is quick, in nerovision express there's an option to not re-encode compliant video files which makes the DVD authoring process for video allready in MPEG2 format take 20-30 mins instead of several hours	dugimodo (138)
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