To many .ISOs to deal with

[jclarkyyy]

I'm hoping that someone can provide me some advice about my current situation. I have a ton of .ISO files that are back ups of DVD images. The purpose was to obviously have a library of my dvds so I could play them back without having to use media AND without losing quality AND have all the extras.

At this time as you could guess, I'm out of disk space. I'm willing to lose some quality and go MPEG4 and lose all extras. However, I really don't want to sit there and mount each image and rip them over again. Is there a program out there that will automate this process to the point where I can set 100+ iso images to rip into 100+ main movie mp4 files?

Thanks for your advice.

[zoobie]

at $100 per TB, why don't you just buy some more HDD space and skip all that work?

[lowellriggsiam]

You could use handbreak, it does have a learning curve, but well respected.

[MOVIEGEEK]

I would do as zoobie recommended, you can get a 500GB HDD and enclosure for $100.
If you really want to go to all the trouble then use DVD Shrink to compress the crap out of the ISO files, transcoding is faster than re-encoding.

[guns1inger]

I would do as zoobie recommended, you can get a 500GB HDD and enclosure for $100.
If you really want to go to all the trouble then use DVD Shrink to compress the crap out of the ISO files, transcoding is faster than re-encoding.

Yeah, but you pay for the speed in crap quality. Any meaningful size reduction will suck visually.

[MOVIEGEEK]

One mans crap is another mans treasure, look at all the people converting Blu-ray to [insert low res format].

[KneeRow]

how about DVDrat? it makes it smaller, it seems, four DVDs in one, i'm reading.

Also, about the quality, it seems that as long you don't watch it on wide screen TV's, it won't show that much?

Can you tell us what u use to watch it on, coz if you don't see the visual difference (think about that sentence for a while.....) then you can reduce quality like crazy, of course.

[guns1inger]

RatDVD died a (deserved) death several years ago. The format is not widely supported for playback, and there are far better options available.

[KneeRow]

RatDVD died a (deserved) death several years ago. The format is not widely supported for playback, and there are far better options available.

Oh yeah? Like which? Don't leave us hanging ....

[KneeRow]

Is there a program out there that will automate this process to the point where I can set 100+ iso images to rip into 100+ main movie mp4 files?

Thanks for your advice.

A workaround is any macro recorder and player (like Eventcoder) which automates recurring tasks, by recording every keystroke and mouseclick and move you make.


get it via google it's at cnet.com or go here if urls are allowed: http://download.cnet.com/Eventcorder-Suite/3000-2094_4-10138609.html

The drawback is you won't be able to access your pc while it's bizzy, so that sucks, unless you will be away from the PC. And do you have the extra 70 gb of dicspace to store 100 films?

If you can get some app to do it in the background, that's better of course.

[tigerb]

Lets see.....

Lowest price posted....
Negegg.ca Hitachi 2.0 TB (5-platter) $146
Negegg.ca WD 2.0 TB Green $146
Negegg.ca Samsung 2.0 TB Green $146
Negegg.ca Seagate 2.0 TB Green $146

MY local store
Hitachi 2.0 TB (5-platter) $99 after $30 MIR
WD/Samsung 1.5 TB Green $90
Seagate 1.5 TB LP/Green $80 Seagate 7200.11 1.5 TB $90
WD/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung 1.0 TB $69 - $89

I got rid of all my CDs/DVDs two yrs ago......and I think by Summer $59 for 1.0 TB and $99 for 2.0 TB will the the regular price....!

[olyteddy]

I'd have to agree with buying more hard drive, especially if the PC in your Computer Details is the machine you want to re-encode with. Getting good compression with something like AVC takes a lot of horsepower.

[KneeRow]

Lets see.....

Lowest price posted....
Negegg.ca Hitachi 2.0 TB (5-platter) $146
Negegg.ca WD 2.0 TB

eggs ..... basket .... how IS that saying, again?

When you find a nice spindel of 50 DVD-Rs (0.25 TB) for less than $18, then that's the better deal.
and you won't lose everything at once when your drive breaks ... which is a real risk if you get the cheapest HDD ...

It would be nicer and better just to answer his question, than to question his methods ....