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The Floating World
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 Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 6:42 am Post subject: How can I burn dvd movies to a hdd at smaller sizes? |
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So I have an ext hdd now. I have lots of dvds (over a hundred) I want to burn to my ext hdd. They range between 3.5gb (yongsan pirates) and 9gb (genuine) per film.
I want to make them each around 1gb as that seems the average torrent file size when I download films and tbh I'm even happy with the quality of 700mb rips.
So how can I burn the dvds to my ext hdd shrinking them to around 1gb per film and so that when I play them in vlc, they'll be full screen size etc...? I know how to burn, but I don't know how to make the files smaller. I use windows 7 ultimate and my method is to go to the d drive and copy the movie and then paste it into the hdd. 9gb takes way too long (about an hr at 2.5mb ps) and is also gonna take up way too much space.
IF I can do this, will they still be good quality (like when you download a 700mb torrent to watch on your laptop?)
The other option would be I guess to just download the titles from btjunkie, but some of them are not available (arthouse, international classics etc.)
Cheers. |
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eamo
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ThingsComeAround
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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pkang0202
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| You gotta re-encode the movie. |
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The Floating World
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| You gotta re-encode the movie. |
Can I do that with the programme eamo reccomended as I already downloaded that one. |
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eamo
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:55 am Post subject: |
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| The Floating World wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
| You gotta re-encode the movie. |
Can I do that with the programme eamo reccomended as I already downloaded that one. |
Yes. It changes DVD's to smaller AVI files.....but I don't know if you can exactly stipulate the size you want....it probably does.
Also I linked you to a trial version. It will put a watermark on your finished video unless you buy the legit version or 'acquire' it another way....... |
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The Floating World
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| The Floating World wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
| You gotta re-encode the movie. |
Can I do that with the programme eamo reccomended as I already downloaded that one. |
Yes. It changes DVD's to smaller AVI files.....but I don't know if you can exactly stipulate the size you want....it probably does.
Also I linked you to a trial version. It will put a watermark on your finished video unless you buy the legit version or 'acquire' it another way....... |
Which would be a better free programme then - one that DOES THE SAME THING, BUT WON'T LEAVE A WATERMARK...?
HANDBRAKE? NERO? |
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pkang0202
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:25 am Post subject: |
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There are a lot of software to re-encode video. I would suggest using Google and reading about the process.
There isn't really a "1 click" automatic thing. If you want 700MB video then you have to manually specify the video compression, the audio bit rate, etc... to get it down to the 700MB.
When you re-encode the video to make the file smaller, you are compressing it sacrificing quality. The smaller you make the file, the more quality you are sacrificing.
Seriously, take a day and read up on it. There are countless number of guides, howto's, and FAQ's on it. |
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The Floating World
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have a spare day unfortunately.'
Anyone reccomend a good free programme? |
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ThingsComeAround
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Look at my previous post.
It is free
Codes in mp4 format
No watermark |
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The Floating World
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
Look at my previous post.
It is free
Codes in mp4 format
No watermark |
Awesome, thanks.
Wont need to use it much, as I realised a lot of the films will have good numbers of seeders and peers, so easier just to download. The ones unavailable to download or that are slow or have no eng subs, those are the ones I'll have to shrink and transfer from dvd. Wont be too many, I'd imagine. In fact I might just see how big a dvd carry case is for 200 disks and just buy one of them. Sure it will take up less space than 3 boxes lol.... and then no need for ext hd etc... |
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wishfullthinkng
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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yep use handbrake or for more power check out virtualdub which is also free.
tip: set up multiple files to encode while you are sleeping because video encoding taxes most cpu's to the point of not being able to run anything else very well and for weaker cpu's it takes ages. |
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