Re: [SLUG] preserving a full DVD w/ compression

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2007 - 17:03:27 EDT


On 9/4/07, Pete Theisen <petetheisen@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 14:55, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > I'm enjoying copying my DVD movies onto my laptop so that I needn't
> > worry about them being damaged. However, copying a full DVD takes up
> > a lot of space, sometimes in the neighborhood of 7GB or greater.
> > Compression is great, but occasionally I wish to indulge in the
> > benefits of a full DVD, like trailers, director narratives, extra
> > features and the likes.
> >
> > How can I preserve the full DVD content, menu intact, while having the
> > portability of excellent compression as with some codecs?
>
> Hi Mario!
>
> What would happen if you copied the DVD onto a blank dvd disk and used the
> original as the reference copy? Then if you damage the copy you are out a
> buck or so? Just wondering.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Pete
> http://www.pete-theisen.com/
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

That won't work since I need to lug around discs with me. I just want
to have files to click on, specifically compressed. It's the 21st
century. I feel I should be able to do this. No more mucking around
with toxic DVDs that I'll just throw away someday. More waste really.

/mario
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