Hot!! DVD Recorder-Copy DVDs to be played in regular DVD Players!

[MaCaBrE]

www.doom9.net is a great resource for DivX and VCD ripping. I'll warn you in advance; be prepared to spend maybe 24hours or more making the disk. It's a ton of work.

<< The problem with Mpeg4 is that you are rarely going to get the movie onto one CD with the same resolution video etc. I tried it briefly with The Third Man, which is about 100 minutes, and had to go down to 320x240 and use &quot;Fast Motion&quot; (choppier)... Since I have a nice home theater Mpeg4 is even less of an option. I'd rather have a VHS tape (which will have higher quality picture though lower quality sound)... >>

I'm no expert, but I've been reading about a few new DivX technologies that increase video and sound quality, while preserving the small file size. MM4, VKI, and VM2 are some that come to mind. You can find more info at Doom9's site. Most DivX(mpeg4) movies fit on one disks, but I've seen a couple that take two. All VCD movies(at least those worth watching) are two CDs. There is also a new VCD format called SVCD(Super Video CD). This is even better than VCD, featuring higher resolutions and better sound quality. VCD and SVCD can both be played on stand alone DVD players, while DivX is not.

Hope this helps.

 

[Jamey]

Thanks...I will start lookin' into it. I've seen a few clips on the net, but unless I can get it to a format I can put on CD-RW it's not doin' much good. On the flip side, if I can't rip the 120+ DVD's and encode on a CD-RW, it's back to loaning out my DVD's...that SUCKS! Sound like it will take a little longer to ge tthe quality high enough to be tolerable. I don't mind it taking two discs...my player has two trays, but it would be nice to get it on one.

 

[Zwingle]

You need to read up more on the DVDR technology that they are offering with the G4....you think Steve(get a)Jobs is going to have the RIAA and the MPAA all over his a$$...no copying will be allowed....plus the DVD blanks are only 4.2GB....most DVD are 8+GB....and cost 30+ dollars.....get real bud.....

 

[Zucchini]

Well you have to think about why they need a dvd-r in their macs. Its for home movies and stuff u make, going in that direction it makes a lot of sense.

 

[gdog3000]

&quot;Apple just has to do this to make up for overlooking that newfangled thing called a CDRW drive in all it's machines &quot;


actually it does have a cd-rw drive in it , the dvd-r doubles as a cd-rw drive

 

[Capster]

Yowza! Talk about there being some insecure, opinionated people around here with this Mac bashing. I wonder how many of them are 16 yr old pizza face geeks who don't know how to start a conversation on a date without bragging about framerates in Quake3.

I also wonder how many would say &quot;Macs suck&quot; if the OS was running on Intel/AMD hardware. Macs are actually pretty nice people. It's just like cars. Certain ones are better than others for certain tasks.

As to the thread on this itself I wouldn't call this a hot deal since shipment on orders for these systems just got pushed back to 7-10 weeks from 6-8 weeks which will likely(purely guessing) be when the Pioneer drive will be available to all in sufficient quantities for somewhere in the $900-$1000 range. Don't get me wrong. I like Macs and am looking forward to Mac OS X but I also like Linux and Win2k. Pretty bizarre, eh? At any rate this is not a hot deal at all. At least not until we can see a comparison of a Windows setup against a Mac setup. Remember, productivity is what mostly will count not being able to overclock it and the video card.

 

[Inosuke]

I'm with the MAC addicts on this one.
Apple has a lot of really good original ideas (Choke).

And, ya know, 30.00 isnt really that much to beta test their new OS for them.

AND 3000.00 is not too much for an identity.

 

[yodayoda]

an identity? please, their marketing scheme suckered you too? well, the idea of a &quot;computer with a soul&quot; is crap. putting a soul in a computer is only done with your own hands, assemblying the pieces together, until that magical moment when you turn the power on, you hear the hard drive spin up, and the computer beeps. that's soul. but you wouldn't know that thrill, because you bought a Mac, which does not license clones and does not let you put components together in such a way. you get to add memory and a firewire camera, woohoo. a soul doesn't come in a box from the silicon valley, and if you think that, believing that a few billboards with cesar chavez and FDR are a soul, then live your illusion.

 

[Zucchini]

Poor yoda,

I guess you didn't notice that he was being sarcastic hahaah

 

[jsmckenna45431]

Where's the deal?