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  1. 29th Oct 2003 01:01 #1
    LPHYbrid76
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    I have a large collection o DVDs and would like to take some with me to my trip to Europe over the winter. but I would like to be able to store them on my hard drive on my laptop so I can leave the discs at home. I have an 80GB HD with about 67 GB free, so I can put quite a few on their...my question is, what is the best software for accomplishing this while makin the file as small as possible. Possibly MPEG 4?? not sure...any advice is appreciated
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    windows media 9 or divx or quicktime mpeg4 or 1 or two others

    all of the above are largely based on mpeg4
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  3. 29th Oct 2003 01:30 #3
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    To my knowledge Divx offers the best compression. But if you have enough room it would be much faster just to rip the dvds onto your HD without re-encoding to divx or something else.
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    I'd rip them to WMV9
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  5. 29th Oct 2003 06:57 #5
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    I'd use XviD, since I think it gives best quality. If you are planning on doing anything other than playing these files, then I wouldn't use XviD, I'd use DivX instead.

    1GB/Movie is pretty nice quality. 2GB/Movie is perfect quality imo. For viewing only that is.

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    dr divx (for divx conversion) is completely brainless to use, But I personally prefer xvid or why not svcd? or even vcd (to get max storage).
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