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

From: Mike Branda (mike@wackyworld.tv)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2007 - 17:45:00 EDT


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?
>
> /mario

Not the first clue about DVD ripping... but if you're trying to preserve
the DVD intact _exactly_ , why not an .iso? I think there are players
(mplayer maybe?) that can play back from an .iso file. Then everything
would be just as it is on the disc.

Mike Branda Jr.
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