Harddrive space

[Great_Big_E]

I'm on a fairly old computer with a 10gig harddrive. I have a hunch that I saw on this site that it was possible to rip a DVD to a VCD without having enough harddrive space to save the movie first. Can anybody point me to a guide for this.

[musher70]

not in this lifetime...

[LanEvo7]

I think there a programs, but it takes super long.

[scottb721]

It's here somewhere. The down side is the DVD drive with be running during the entire encoding process. With an old computer that could be several hours.
If your dvd packs it in you'll be up for a new one + you'll still only have little HD space. Best bet, add a new HD.

[dbecker]

There are 2 programs out there that I know of that can do it with only needing around 2 gig of open hard drive space. I will save you the trouble, you don't want to go that route for 2 raasons. 1. the quality of the output just plain sucks 2. If you have only a 10 gig hard drive that means your computer is less than 1ghz speed and you would be looking at 30+ hours for 1 svcd movie....

[Great_Big_E]

Thanks guys. That's what I like about these forums... the learning something useful but not the hard way. I was afraid that the answer would be more hard drive space but I guess I'll have to face facts and drop the cash.

Thanks again
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[gll99]

While it's true that it will take a long time to encode a (x(s(vcd))) using your existing computer, your HD space is not a real problem.

Try a freeware program called DVDx v2.2.

You can use the built in encoder to create your vcd and it will only require as much space as needed by the output file approx 1.5 gig or less for a 2 cd, 2 hour movie at standard VCD specs and quality.

If you don't like the results you can frameserve the avi or the avs (avisynth) from DVDx to tmpgenc using the video server plugin supplied with DVDx and also use the Tmpgenc templates which you will find in the tools section. This method produces results as good as any other means you might use and yet minimal HD space is required since the ouput from DVDx is simply passed to Tmpgenc (or any other encoder) and no large temporary files are created.

To save pressure on the DVD rom try to use more mem or hd work space (it's an option in the input section of DVDx)