Topic: Great New Dvd2xbox Feature! (Maybe) (Read 78 times)

Rob3121 · « **on:** August 03, 2003, 05:52:00 PM »

maybe i'm not understanding but why couldn't you just rip it from the pc to the pc?

HumanClay · « **Reply #1 on:** August 03, 2003, 06:14:00 PM »

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maybe i'm not understanding but why couldn't you just rip it from the pc to the pc?

If you don't have a dvd-rom drive..but in his case I have on idea

BLazeD · « **Reply #2 on:** August 03, 2003, 09:26:00 PM »

For people who dont have DVD Rom on their PC, and whos Xbox hard drive isnt big enough to store 6GB worth of DVD video files

dokworm · « **Reply #3 on:** August 03, 2003, 10:12:00 PM »

I'd rather see a divx (or xvid or whatever) converter added on the xbox, I wouldn't care if it took the xbox 9hrs to do it, just leave it going overnight...or is 64MB just not enuf RAM to be able to do a rip and divx encode?

BLazeD · « **Reply #4 on:** August 04, 2003, 01:56:00 AM »

QUOTE (dokworm @ Aug 4 2003, 06:12 PM)

I'd rather see a divx (or xvid or whatever) converter added on the xbox, I wouldn't care if it took the xbox 9hrs to do it, just leave it going overnight...or is 64MB just not enuf RAM to be able to do a rip and divx encode?

Too many programs required to do it. Would be a total mission. Plus all the settings that would have to be added etc

Bender_Unit_1 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 04, 2003, 08:30:00 AM »

The xbox's P3-733MHz with 64MB of ram.. yes it would take all night! I highly suggest you use your PC for creating DiVX (or Xvid) movies.

-Bender

Xeero · « **Reply #6 on:** August 04, 2003, 08:36:00 AM »

A DVD-ROM drive costs like $30. Work at McDonald's for 1 day then quit, for Christ's sake...

Dagoth · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2003, 08:55:00 AM »

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A DVD-ROM drive costs like $30. Work at McDonald's for 1 day then quit, for Christ's sake...

ROFL

Another Xeero Classic..

Xeero · « **Reply #8 on:** August 04, 2003, 12:38:00 PM »

QUOTE (BLazeD @ Aug 4 2003, 04:25 PM)

QUOTE (Xeero @ Aug 5 2003, 04:36 AM)

A DVD-ROM drive costs like $30. Work at McDonald's for 1 day then quit, for Christ's sake...

Thats besides the point, but you obviously dont get that...

No, I get it.

The only reason the Xbox is able to perform so well when playing games is because of the killer GPU. Unlike the Sony, the CPU (at 733 MHz) is not carrying a huge load. Now, what if you were forced to limit a process on the Xbox to just the CPU? What kind of performance can you get?

For me, I would be pitting my Xbox's Pentium3 733MHz CPU with 64MB of SDRAM against my PC's AthlonXP 2100+ with 512MB of PC2700 DDR RAM. I'd also be dealing with the max throughput of the Ethernet cable vs. the fast write-speeds of an ATA133 HDD. Now, I could also bring negligible issues into the equation as well; consider 1) the power used by an Xbox, TV, computer, and monitor; and 2) the power used by the computer and monitor. I won't enter that into the discussion though.

You'd get an ROI on your DVD-ROM drive after like a month. That's if you're so hard-up on cash that you're even tracking the ROI on a $30.00 DVD-ROM drive, though.

Ultimately, the McDonald's scenario is much simpler.

phatmuther · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2003, 04:10:00 AM »

could be good

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