Will I be able to play DVD on laptop, edit it, etc.

[Roche]

Hi, new member. Anyways, I've been looking for a DVD recorder for quite awhile. But I can't seem to find an answers for this.

I want to get a DVD recorder so I can record some basketball games on TV. The kind of DVD recorder I'm looking at right now is a Toshiba D-R400 Tunerless 1080p Upconverting DivX Certified DVD Recorder. I'd like to record the games and then play it on my laptop and maybe edit some of the video with a video editing program. I'd hate to buy a DVD recorder and find out it's useless for me. If anyone has an recommendations I'd appreciate it.

The type of laptop I have is a Compaq Presario V2000.
Cable type: Direct TV

[yoda313]

thats two different things. If you mean a standalone settop recorder that will record onto itself without anything else. Simply take that finalized disc and rip it to your laptop like you would a regular dvd (though no encryption to get around).

Your laptop would only be limited by harddrive space and processing power on what you can edit on it.

[Roche]

Would that DVD still have the game on it if I rip it to my laptop?

The Toshiba D-R400 Tunerless 1080p Upconverting DivX Certified DVD Recorder can break things up into chapters. The nice thing about it is I can break the basketball games into quarters. Meaning if I want to watch it on my laptop, I can edit it on my video editing program by quarter.

And would do you mean by the standalone set top recorder records onto itself without anything else. Wouldn't a DVD recorder do the same thing as well if you were to record a basketball game? Records onto itself without anything else?

[redwudz]

Even though the DVD may be 'broken up' by quarters of play, a DVD is composed of VOBs, which are about 1GB each in size and span chapters, or probably your 'quarters'. You might take a look at 'WHAT IS' DVD to the upper left on this page for the DVD format, structure and specification.

But you can use a program like VOB2MPG to extract the whole DVD to your hard drive as one large MPEG, then edit it into quarters of play. Or it may have one VOB per quarter, though that would be unusual.

You don't really need to 'rip' it, you can just transfer the DVD VIDEO_TS folder to the laptop hard drive, same as any other file.

Does 'Direct TV' have a output that your DVD recorder can use? That recorder has no tuner, so you would need to use composite video in or S-video, along with audio in.

And welcome to our forums.