HDD Space

[SteveDVD]

Hey I am ripping a DVD with DVDx. How much memory will it take. Someone told me 8 gig. Is this right?

[Stisse1]

Hi,

It depends how you do it....

Follow this and you don't need 8 gb of harddisk
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdbackup.htm

/Stisse..

[poopyhead]

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On 2001-12-30 08:31:05, SteveDVD wrote:
Hey I am ripping a DVD with DVDx. How much memory will it take. Someone told me 8 gig. Is this right?


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memory as in RAM?...RAM doesn't affect encode time, so basically a min of 128 should do.

[SteveDVD]

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On 2001-12-30 12:10:17, Stisse1 wrote:
Hi,

It depends how you do it....

Follow this and you don't need 8 gb of harddisk
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdbackup.htm

/Stisse..
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Yea but I don't want to blow my DVD-ROM...

[poopyhead]

SteveDVD, if u don't wanna take any chances, just use the time-tested method of smartripper->dvd2avi->tmpgenc

just get a bigger hdd..they're really cheap now...i've seen 40 gigs for less than $100