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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 17 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hello, everyone,
I'm ripping my fairly large DVD collection which is mostly foreign films (I need subtitles) and many of these also have worthwhile audio commentaries (let's hear it for Peter Cowie).
I have been using DvdShrink to rip as an exact dvd copy (compressed to fit on consumer grade dvds), but this is eating up quite a bit of space.
I want to have removable subtitles and optional audio on my foreign films. Can this be achieved with mpeg? avi? or am I stuck with video_ts?
Thanks very much!
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Avi files can allow at least 2 audio tracks and as long as you have an .srt subtitle file in the same place as the avi, some media player will also add them to the screen. I haven't heard of anything similar for mpeg files but it doesn't mean they can't do it either.
However I would advise against going into detail in this forum as it's not allowed to discuss DVD piracy here. I know currently your question doesn't ask that, but admittedly it is borderline so it may be better to play safe and not risk getting banned by asking any more detailed questions. |
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| Registered: April 8, 2007 | | Posts: 10 |
| | Posted: | | | | While northbloke's concern is very real, may I point that considering HDD prices and the unbeatable easiness of playing anything off the hard-drives instead of flipping discs, there are many guys out there that build in excess of 10 TB file servers (I am one of them) for their home use. So, going back to Luje's question above, mkv (Matroska) is the container format that you're looking for. Regardless of the source, this will allow you to embed whatever video content you like, with multiple audio tracks (switchable) and multiple subs (also switchable). What you put inside such a container is up to you but you will end up with one single file that'll hold everything. Avi's and subs with same name, in the same folder or the likes it's so 2002  . | | | | Last edited: by unimatrix01 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,339 |
| | Posted: | | | | i would agree that this type of talk is prohibited - however... Western Digital just announced a 2TB drive to be out asap for a list price of $225... so figure in 3 months you can have it for around $150... that right there would hold about 2100 DVD's - uncompressed.... I don't see how hard drive space is a concern unless we were shifting the conversation to blu-ray.... though even with blu-ray... if the average film is 40GB that is still about 40 movies on the drive.... | | | | -JoN |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | 2TB?  |
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| Registered: April 8, 2007 | | Posts: 10 |
| | Posted: | | | | 1.5TB is $129. 2TB should be just around the corner. We're living in Star Trek times; deal with it.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 100 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ruineddaydreams: Quote:
i would agree that this type of talk is prohibited - however... Western Digital just announced a 2TB drive to be out asap for a list price of $225... so figure in 3 months you can have it for around $150... that right there would hold about 2100 DVD's - uncompressed.... I don't see how hard drive space is a concern unless we were shifting the conversation to blu-ray.... though even with blu-ray... if the average film is 40GB that is still about 40 movies on the drive.... Jon, not sure how you got the 2100 DVDs number? According to my calc if I take an avg 5 GB per DVD (movie only) 2 TB will hold approx 400 DVDs. OR am I reading something wrong here? | | |  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,339 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DVDsRGreat: Quote:
Quoting ruineddaydreams:
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i would agree that this type of talk is prohibited - however... Western Digital just announced a 2TB drive to be out asap for a list price of $225... so figure in 3 months you can have it for around $150... that right there would hold about 2100 DVD's - uncompressed.... I don't see how hard drive space is a concern unless we were shifting the conversation to blu-ray.... though even with blu-ray... if the average film is 40GB that is still about 40 movies on the drive....
Jon, not sure how you got the 2100 DVDs number? According to my calc if I take an avg 5 GB per DVD (movie only) 2 TB will hold approx 400 DVDs. OR am I reading something wrong here? Thanks... you are right... i dont know what kind of dumb math I was doing... 5GB is probably high though... you can remove special features and audio tracks you don't need... but yea... my math was still way way off.. | | | | -JoN |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have recently created a 5 disc RAID array for this purpose. With the 1TB drives I used, that gave me slightly under 4TB of space. Still doesn't hold my whole collection (I'd need about 3 of those RAID sets.)
The reason I responded to this thread, is to warn you guys way from the Seagate 1.5TB drives. They are not good for RAIDs, or video streaming. I had to return 4 of them to 2 different sources because of this problem, and Seagate is well aware of it and are trying to fix it (UNSUCCESSFULLY) with firmware updates. Some people have not seen these problems, but MANY have.
Stick with the 1TB drives until someone proves the new 2TBs are stable.
Also, I have so far ripped the discs to VIDEO_TS folders as well. I have not found a player I like using yet. I have also ripped some to mkv containers. My question is, what is your recommended player for playing them back?
NOTE: I own every disc I have ripped, and NEVER plan on ripping anything I don't own. | | | | in canada, no one can hear you scream | | | | Last edited: by pacaway |
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| Registered: April 4, 2007 |  Posts: 882 |
| | Posted: | | | | What I can tell you is that for my trailer rip collection (I have trailers for every movie in my collection on an external HDD) takes up 10GB per 100 trailers on average  | | | | - Jan |
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| Registered: January 24, 2009 | | Posts: 6 |
| | Posted: | | | | Rip them to your HDD with DVD Shrink. You can reauthor to remove any material you don't want. I'd do the movie only with whatever audio and subtitles you need. I'd then use MeGUI to convert to a smaller format. It can convert to just about any format and has options to keep your subtitles and audio tracks as well. It isn't exactly a novice tool though. Not just point and click. You have to do some setup. There are good guides out there for it though. |
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