RE: NOW: Movies from hard disk WAS: VFD Questions

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

True ... But basically what it comes down to is a combination of things.

1) AFAIK there is no Divx playback support on the RealMagic Hollywood
Plus cards (I may be wrong there but I haven't seen any.)

2) Unreasonable as it may seem I just don't want to re-lossily encode
something that has already been lossily encoded.

The overall storage required per full DVD (including extras) is about
6Gb / =A36 on average which in isolation isn't bad at all - it's just that
when starting with a collection of almost 300 movies then it gets a bit
demanding on initial financial input - especially with the prospect of
another 0.5Tb of MP3's as well.

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 15 March 2003 10:40
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> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] NOW: Movies from hard disk WAS: VFD Questions
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> you could do worse than have a look at the current Divx or=20
> xVid codecs Phil...
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> Remember that the movies you may have experienced in Divx=20
> have usually been crunched down to an acceptable download=20
> size. Without that restriction, you can code the movies to=20
> about the 1.5Gb level, and still have the full 5.1 soundtrack..
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> It'll still take a *lot* of diskspace, but, tbh, a more=20
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> now possible on a single IDE Controller... (albeit at=20
> considerable cost)
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> Ian.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 March 2003 10:03
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] NOW: Movies from hard disk WAS: VFD Questions
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> > What software are you using for extraction,
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> DVD Decrypter
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> > serving
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> Just a windows share
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> > and playback?
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> A RealMagic hardware/software decoder combination.
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> > Are you able to playback the full Dolby Digital / DTS sound
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> Yes...
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> > I'm very interested....
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> > Don't worry about HDD space - time will fix that :-)
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> I don't have time though...
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> Phil
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