DVD Ripping on Small HD's

[deejay_silva]

I have about 2 gigs available on my HD and I wanna rip a dvd to an SVCD. Best quality possible. What Guidelines should I follow.

I am also receiving alot of errors :

can't read black 70578(byteposition: 141.156 KB) unlock again now and retry.... gives me 3 options:

abort , retry, Ignore

what should I do?????

Ohh and what is the best way to get good quality????

[deejay_silva]

Also getting a message when I load smart ripper...

Some files are still locked. Try and unlock with a player??

what am I doing wrong????

[XanaXManX]

I dont know about your error messages but I would suggest you just rip one vob file at a time and make seperate mpeg files vs one or 2 big files. I have about 80 gigs free and I still do this so I dont have to cut later

[sparrow]

i would suggest getting a bigger hard drive 20 gig at least
cause most films are 6-9 gig big thats proberly why you are getting errors i use clad 2.0 to rip d.v.d.s and it works a treat no errors at all.
if and when you get a bigger hard drive and you want to know how to make good quality v.c.d.s give me a shout and ill tell you how i do it every one plays on my stand alone
d.v.d. player.
your's e.c.t.
sparrow.

[orbit7]

2 gigs? I would not waste your time. as even doing one vob at a time, you would be stretching it (1.0 gig per vob / - need room to store both wav/ mp2 and mpv file for svcd, you may be successful but with a lot of risk and time) 2nd hand drives of 10gig or more are fairly cheap now.. shop around.
my 2 cents

[MicoMan]

I use Flask to rip and covert direct from my DVD drive

I have not done SVCD but VCD can be upto 1.5gb so I think it would be tight with SVCD

[MicoMan]

I use Flask to rip and covert direct from my DVD drive

I have not done SVCD but VCD can be upto 1.5gb so I think it would be tight with SVCD

[Vejita-sama]

Sorry to say this but you need a bigger HD and/or more space. There are a some features (like subtitles) that you can't extract unless you rip the whole DVD.

Most DVDs take up ~4GB, the extracted avi is normally about 500MB and the wav about 1GB. The MPEG1/2 file will be 730MB to 790MB (74min vs 80min CDR).

If you only have 2GB and that it's really not going to happen. The MPEG alone will take up 39% of your free space. Take a look locally or at http://www.pricewatch.com for a bigger HD. 20GB is good enough, but 40GB drives are the best MB/$ right now (or last time I checked, might be 60GB drives by now). Luck and sorry...