I've Just Gone Dual-Core :^)

[Chewy]

let's make it simple and fast
no aec no da
70% compression(which I believe is a major glitch in shrink)
decrypted files from hard drive to hard drive
star wars 3 is fine (at least it's had time to get downunder)

slow boat from hollywood?

reauthor main movie only
2hr 20 min movie time

R4 R1 pal ntsc?

[anonymez]

lol i don't have star wars 3

i'm currently doing a very long xvid encode, so it will have to wait a while, though here are the dvd's i currently have on my hard disk:

man on fire
war of the worlds
training day
the longest yard

could we do one of those?

[Chewy]

none of them are long enough

we wait, no rush, look how long it took threading in shrink
to be analyzed

[mill]

wrong answer!

Let the games (benchs) begin!


haven't done any xvid in a year and a half, hope it's progressed since then.
divx4?

Chewy im very new at this, and i guess im being nosey, but i was wandering if you could explain this ,if you find the time

[Chewy]

are you loaded for bear? or rabbits!

we were just talking about optimizing the video encoding/transcoding process.

kinda like kids street racing, how fast can you go?

won't be racing for pinks tho, there is a little knowledge to be gained.

to be fast at shrink you need 2 hard drives if you are working off
decrypted files on one. An optical drive slows the process down.

[mill]

'If you use dvdd to rip the movie to your hard drive, then use shrink to
compress/transcode(make it smaller), it's faster and much less error prone
if the source file(s) are on one hard drive and the output file(s) go on anotherhard drive, however ideally these drives do not share a cable." Thanks, this is what you were explaining to me before. It was xvid and divx4, that was throwing me off, thanks again.
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[Chewy]

attn ANONY........

xvid, divx, are clones of mpeg4. dvd's are based on mpeg2

this is time and cpu intensive(the conversion) from mpeg2 to xvid.
anony backs up his movies to this format, smaller with equal quality.

[mill]

interesting, thanks, about how much space does it save, and how much more time are we talking?

[Chewy]

try it and find out

[mill]

Good answer

[Chewy]

Long ago and far away I saw the first lord of the rings compressed to 2.1
gigs and could not tell it from the original dvd on my .22 dotpitch 17"
monitor somewhere around the time the dvd came out.
My computer or expertiese couldn't have done it back then.
Half the time I tried to make an svcd, my computer locked up.

[mill]

Yea i think i better leave that along for awhile i still have alot to learn with what im doing now, but it sounds like a person could save on the price of media.

[Chewy]

I don't look forward to an xvid bench, something about anything that takes
longer than 15-20 minutes for a single operation just doesn't seem right.

I really don't like ripping a movie to the hard drive without compressing it.
Straight rips in reauthor can be done in 8-10 minutes with shrink, another
8-9 minutes, a nasa burn on aaa media, mission accomplished.
Add 10 minutes tops for an intensive compression of larger main movie.

New protection has thrown a monkey wrench in this scenario.

With grade AAA SL media down
to 30/35c bulk in USA, cost is irrelevant.

[anonymez]

sounds like a person could save on the price of media.

rather on hard disk space. (though if it were several years ago, a person would most definitely save on price of media)

i back up all moveis onto dual layered dvd's. i also encode to xvid, at a bitrate of at least say 1800kbps. the xvid files go on my HTPC, with around 900GB hard disk space. i can fit anywhere between say 700-1000 movies on that one PC, without inserting any disks. as opposed to say ~210 dvd5's, and maybe 100-150 dvd9's. quality loss is minimal as long as you use the correct settings...

xvid is also the best codec (in terms of quality/playback performance) for HDTV encoding, gives excellent results

[Chewy]

"i back up all moveis onto dual layered dvd's"

doesn't that get a little pricey?

maybe you meant(all the movies I burn)