Creative Labs DXR3 for ripping a DVD?

[LazyBoy]

Is it possible to rip DVDs with the Creative Labs DXR3 Hardware MPEG2-Card?

[mikerios]

the dvd rom drive rips the vob files from a given dvd, not the mpeg decoder card, so yes your creative labs drive ( it's either a panasonic or mitsumi dvd rom drive ) can rip a dvd.

[LazyBoy]

Thanks mikerios,
maybe my quesion wasn't precise enough. Of course i do rip with my DVD-drive (Toshiba) using various tools like Xmpeg or DVDx. I should have asked if it is possible to "tweak or hack" the MPEG2 encoding hardware to directly write the informations (...movie...) to a file instead of just displaying it on the screen. I kind of "grabbing" or "capturing" is what i mean.
Thanks again.

[mikerios]

o i c, let the decoder card rip in effect rather than using smart ripper or dvd dedcrpter. hmm interesting, but then why would you want to do that?


except all I can think of is having a ready made mpeg2 file ready for your authoring program.. right.. ?

[LazyBoy]

Yeah!
Wouldn't it be nice to have a realtime "high-quality" encoder for that price? Just an idea ...

[sumibas]

you can use it like that by feeding the Vedio and audio out put from your dvd palyer and do a real time mpeg2 encodeing. it is same as how you do vhs from vcr.

[LazyBoy]

Hi sumibas,
that would be a possible way too - but since the (digital-) stream is first encoded and then decoded back to a (analog-) stream for video-out, isn't it lossy? The other -big- problem is that my nVidia-Card (GeForce 3) has no audio/video input.
In this case thats the REAL PROBLEM :-)