Guest siu99spj Posted October 4, 2004 Report Posted October 4, 2004 i've been reading the posts between you guys here and i have a newbie question i'm afraid..Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt, as we all will eventually. How do actually capture the movie from a dvd? I dont have a proper PC by any real measure.. W98SE on PII 400mhz wid a coupla hundred meg of ram.. the car equivalent would be an Allegro. in brown. It will play DVDs thru a player called Mpact Mediaware but not Media Player or any of the utilities i have. i have tried VirtualDub etc but nthing plays the movie so that i can get to it! Is my machine too puny to process a whole DVD onto a 256Meg card d'ya think? Err, no, so long as you don't mind it taking the best part of a day. I started encoding on a PII-350MHz (OC'ed to 434MHz) with 128MB RAM. First movie I did was the Matrix and I did it in WinME as well. Only problem was it took over a DAY to do. [Willywave: I LOVE my P4 3.2GHz machine, encoding away at 25+ fps!] To encode your movie, without going into too much detail (Don't know how legal that is) you rip the DVD to your PC (Which will require several GBs of free space). Personally I recommend SmartRipper, but its a personal choice. Make sure you remove Macrovision and region locking With your DVD on your PC you need to encode it. I tend to do a stopgap of CD size initially, and then go onto Smartphone size, but it will take longer doing that (But the results are usually better). I tend to use Autogordian knot if I'm feeling lazy or XMPEG. With the file encoded you then just follow my guide as for any other movie. Using DivX you should get a full movie to around 1MB per mnute, assuming you decimate the movie (Halve the frame rate to save space). Much less than that it becomes unwatchable. After that the only problem you'll have is making the battery last long enough to watch it all :)
Guest Dr Who Posted October 4, 2004 Report Posted October 4, 2004 If there is any info you want siu99spj, then let me know. I should have said that, yes, I am coding for the C500. I would be interested in seeing how a movie looks after having been coded for WMP playback, but I have no *appropriate* source material. Simpsons isn't exactly testing things to their limits - I'd be interested to see how an action movie holds out. Anyone tried this, or want to try it? Principally I am wondering if I can drop the frame rate from 25fps to something lower (say 12.5!) to minimise space. Not too critical 'cos I can get 2 hours of movie on my card but I might want to watch The Godfather one day........
Guest Samsonite Posted October 6, 2004 Report Posted October 6, 2004 siu99spj - thanks for that! I dont think my li'l ole machine would actually last a day to encode the dvd without blu screening, locking up or disapperaing to another dimension in a puff of hearing-aid grey smoke!! I think my feature film encoding will have to wait until i have a machine with (significantly) more horsepower.... 'ppreciate all the advice tho. I may give it a go and hope the nipper doesn't decide to toddle over to the box and play the switching on and off game..
Guest liam walsh Posted October 6, 2004 Report Posted October 6, 2004 the E200 can play mpeg-4s!!! convert your movie to mpeg4 and put on storage card. then use a program like smartexplorer and click the movie then it will play in the multimedia album......they are really smooth and have ok picture quality
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