Do I need a Hardware DVD Accelerator

[Guest]

I would like to install a DVD in my 1.3 Athlon, 1 Gig PC-133 RAM
The MoBo has onboard 128-bit Graphics Accelerator but it will also support Hardware DVD Accelerator.
1. Do I need a Hardware DVD Accelerator when I install the Drive?
2. Is it possible to (easily) Copy DVD’s?


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[Stick_e_Mouse]

1. No you do not need a Hardware DVD decoder. Your fast CPU will handle most of the decoding, so it is unneccessary. If you have less than a 500mhz CPU, then you should consider buying a DVD decoder/accelerator.

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[Stick_e_Mouse]

2. What do you mean??
Did you want to RIP DVDs onto your harddrive and then burn them onto a CD-R (or a DVD-R if you have a DVD burner) and then later sell them to people illegally???
Shor answer is, "Yes"....but be careful what you do, I am watching you (and so are the FBI=)

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[Guest]

I’m horrified at your assumption! Of course I would only be making back up copies for home use!

BTW according to the news this evening, the FBI is busy looking for hundreds of their own computers they have lost, misplaced or was stolen from them. They need those computers back to trace their missing guns….

Back to my question… so with a standard CD burner and a DVD drive, I could THEORETICALY make a mirror copy of a DVD on a CD-R?


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[Stick_e_Mouse]

yeah, you can make a mirror copy of the VOB files if you have like 10-15 CDRs for every movie you plan to make illegal copies of =) j/p

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[Guest]

If you grab the DivX codecs you can encode your DVDs to mpeg4 format, which would allow for you to fit a DVD onto a conventional CD. The will be a slight loss in quality depending on what bitrates you choose, as well as the fact that you will only have stereo sound, as opposed to the original 5.1 on a DVD. But hey, you can fit the DVD onto a CD then But remember...no distribution, LOL

As a side note, what I usually do is to use a pretty high bitrate and just encode a DVD movie onto 2 CDs. There is basically negligible loss in quality then.

 

[FatBurger]

And remember that it'll take several hours to do the encoding. Just thought I'd warn you.

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[Stick_e_Mouse]

Fatburger is right, it takes like 2 hours to compress a full VOB movie using FlasMPEG.

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[FatBurger]

2 hours? People who have done it have told me it'll take my 1.2@1.33 around 6.5-7 hours.

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[Stick_e_Mouse]

I guess my comp is just fast all-around...not just the CPU =)

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[Guest]

so it is my understanding that there is not a way to simply copy the 10010000 01000011 1100000 from the DVD to the CD without messing with them?

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[Stick_e_Mouse]

Yup, it just wouldn't fit on a single CDR unless you compressed it.

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