couple of quick questions for a super newbie

[defense]

I am super new to this and I was just wondering a couple of things.

1) After the 5-10 minutes of initially ripping a DVd to the hard drive, could I take out the DVD from the DVD Rom and watch it on a regular home DVD Player? Or does the Encoding process for DVD2SVCD/TmpgEnc need to refer to the DVD after a certain amount of hours? I see the DVD rom drive light on at first, but haven't stayed around for 14 hours to see if it is in use later.


2) Does Nero Burn .bin files? I tried it and it didn't work. I heard Nero is the best burner, and now I am using a program that will accept .bin/cue files, but I don't think it is as good as Nero. What file will nero burn? A Mpeg-2 file?

3) And that leads me to my last question. I have VCD Gear and I'm not sure what happened, but when I tried to convert one of the .bin files to mpeg-2, it made a ton of smaller files, but not one of them was an Mpeg file. Did I do something wrong? If so, what is the exact purpose of VCD Gear if you can just burn the .bin files anyway? I hope someone will be willing to help a newbie with help on these problems, because it is much needed.

[johneboy]

1) After the 5-10 minutes of initially ripping a DVd to the hard drive, could I take out the DVD from the DVD Rom and watch it on a regular home DVD Player? Or does the Encoding process for DVD2SVCD/TmpgEnc need to refer to the DVD after a certain amount of hours? I see the DVD rom drive light on at first, but haven't stayed around for 14 hours to see if it is in use later.

No as soon as the DVD is done being ripped to your hard drive... you can take it out.. I use DVD2SVCD.. and it takes about 30 min to rip a DVD
( i know, slow DVD drive) ANYWAY... as soon as its done ripping... there is no need for the DVD anymore.

2) Does Nero Burn .bin files? I tried it and it didn't work. I heard Nero is the best burner, and now I am using a program that will accept .bin/cue files, but I don't think it is as good as Nero. What file will nero burn? A Mpeg-2 file?

Open Nero
got to File, Burn Image....
Choose the Files of Type: dropdown menu and select All Files *.*. Next just locate the .CUE file, select it and click Open. Make sure you select the .CUE -file, not the .BIN -file.

All you have to do then is choose the writing speed, select the Disc-At-Once Write Method, and click Write.

3) And that leads me to my last question. I have VCD Gear and I'm not sure what happened, but when I tried to convert one of the .bin files to mpeg-2, it made a ton of smaller files, but not one of them was an Mpeg file. Did I do something wrong? If so, what is the exact purpose of VCD Gear if you can just burn the .bin files anyway? I hope someone will be willing to help a newbie with help on these problems, because it is much needed.

I dont know

[defense]

John E Boy, once again, thanks for the reply. You have helped me with quite a few things. My DVD Rom isn't that great either, It's a Universal Buslink. It was on sale for $60 at Best Buy, but there were two $20 Rebates, one through Best Buy and one through the Manufacturer, so it was only $20 in actuality. Crazy Deal. It can read up to 16x as well, so that was a great deal, there are a few things I don't like about it though...but for the price I can't complain. Anyway, thanks for the info on Nero, that will be a great help. I will wait for my next ripped/encoded DVd and burn with Nero! Thanks again