Fw: Compressing DVD ISO Images

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just built a big NAS box for a friend using the 8-channel IDE RAID=20
controller from overclockers - =A380.

It does RAID5 - not bad for an IDE controller, with a maximum of 8 drives.

G.

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ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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Really not an option - the data within the ISO image is already very=20
highly
compressed, and using a file compression system like RAR or ZIP will make
tiny (if any) improvements in size.

What most folks do is to use something like DVD Shrink to strip out=20
unwanted
features, and re-encode the movie down to a smaller bitrate. You lose some
quality, but even on a projector screen that's not so noticeable.

The third approach - lots of diskspace! Building a Terabyte array is a lot
cheaper than it used to be.

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
adamandeveit1999
Sent: 07 February 2006 20:32
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Compressing DVD ISO Images

OK so I've got dvddecrypter creating the ISO images to my hard disk.=20
I've googled but to no avail, but wondered if anyone has compressed these
ISO image files, so that when required I decompress then play.=20
Ok so there will be a delay during decompression but if anyone has done
this?

Cheers









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