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DVD to hard drive, then watch from hard drive
nostrebor:
--- Quote from: Flinkly on October 02, 2006, 11:05:35 am ---i'm ok with giving up 5 gigs for a movie, and i've heard of programs that can trim the fat from dvd's too, although i can't find them again.
it's just so hard to search and get meaningful information, can anyone recommend a good forum site for all this? cause i can search for info, i just have to narrow down my search from the whole internet.
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try this:
http://www.dvd-guides.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
shmokes:
If you don't mind giving up the space (you will regret this decision -- I promise you :) ), I agree with Shardian. DVD Shink is perfect. It's as user friendly as you could possibly ask for, it's powerful, and it's very stable. Oh yeah . . . and free.
severdhed:
as for your frontend, MALA will work for this.
get mala installed, go to setup other emulators.
create one for Windows Media player
for the emulator executable, point to
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe
for the roms folder, point to where your divx files are saved
then on the execution tab, in the command box
/play /close /fullscreen "%path%\%rom%.%ext%"
save it, generate your gamelist.
all of your movies will show up as roms, when you hit 1 to launch them, mediaplayer will open full screen and play your movie, when the movie finishes, it will exit and go back to the list.
you can also use boxart or screenshots, named to match the movie file names and save them in a directory, and point the snaps directory to there and it will show the artwork when you select the movie.
Flinkly:
if you have them in divx format. i've got iso's currently, and looking for a better way to store dvd quality video so i don't have to mount them. i could always go through daemon tools in a front end...
shmokes:
Mount them, then rip them to Divx :)
By the way, even after trimming the fat off a DVD the main feature alone is often up to 6 GB. When I use DVD Shrink to copy DVDs I always strip out extra features rather than resort to compression and just with the main feature alone it often will not fit on a single-sided DVD+r (4.5 GB) without some compression.