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FOAK: DVD to my laptop?
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I just bought a 4GB USB key and want to watch DVD's etc on my laptop .. any
suggestions how I can easily convert to AVI etc?
My DVD player takes up a lot of power I guess and my USB key can be swapped
in and out of my home machine. I can also torrent stuff directly to this
key. Hopefully it'll be lower power than the DVD.
I've come across loads of cheap stuff .. but was wondering whether I could
DVD shrink stuff and then just mount it? Or am I missing some fantastic
alternative?
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Assuming you're happy with just one movie on your USB stick (let's face it,
you're not going to get more than 3 or 4) I'd be tempted to use DVDShrink to
extract the main feature rather than arseing around with recompression. Most
movies should compress nicely into 4Gb without an appreciable loss of
quality.
Most DVD player s/w will let you open a "DVD folder" of .VOB files, or even
just a straight MPEG file, but if in doubt, there's always VLC.
Power-wise, who knows: might be just as efficient to play your movie back
from the HDD.
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Yes, if you want the full DVD then that would probably
be the easiest/quickest way to do it.
If you just want the film then look for something that
will rip out the video only (can Shrink do this? I can't
remember) and transfer just that as it will be much
smaller than a .iso file.
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Conversion to DivX perhaps?
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Good point - DivX comes in way smaller than your typical
mpeg, but requires more processing power to decode from
what I understand, so you may find playback choppy on an
underpowered laptop.
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