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[Mr. Chips]

to Programmers:

Could someone make a Xbox Utility, which would rip directly from the xbox DVD-ROM and encode it to DivX directly onto the Xbox hard Drive ?

It Is Needed Because:

1)  Some people's PC Hard Drives are too full, or not big enough to fit the 14 GB+ needed for the DVD files. (image needed to rip)
2)  It would be much easier for most people to let their xbox's run interrupted for hours at a time, whereas for the PC we need to do e-mail, X-S etc
3)  An all-in one ripping utility is needed anyways
4)  Many of us who are interested in ripping DVDs do have large hard drives in the Xbox

someone must do this!

[desertboy]

QUOTE (Mr. Chips @ Jul 7 2004, 05:09 PM)

to Programmers: Could someone make a Xbox Utility, which would rip directly from the xbox DVD-ROM and encode it to DivX directly onto the Xbox hard Drive ? It Is Needed Because: 1)  Some people's PC Hard Drives are too full, or not big enough to fit the 14 GB+ needed for the DVD files. (image needed to rip) 2)  It would be much easier for most people to let their xbox's run interrupted for hours at a time, whereas for the PC we need to do e-mail, X-S etc 3)  An all-in one ripping utility is needed anyways 4)  Many of us who are interested in ripping DVDs do have large hard drives in the Xbox someone must do this!

Not going to happen for many reasons, speed would be bad (I can encode a 2 hour film over 2 disks with ac3 soundtrack in 3-4 hours on my PC. It would be more like 20+ hours on my xbox. Most dvd's I've ripped (Only about 15) have been between 6-9 gig's. Can't remember seeing a dvd that wouldn't fir on dvd9 (It would require you flipping the disc 9 gig a side maximum).

While something like autoGK+ takes the hassle out of encoding it took a long to perfect no one can be bothered to go through that hassle for the xbox. It's one of those features people have requested 100's of times yet when if we do get it no one would ever really use.

How many people rip MP3's or dvd movies (You can decrypt the vob's) using dvd2xbox? Very few I suspect.

[Mr. Chips]

well, following the tutorial xbox dvd to PC to Divx.... you have to make the file into an ISO....meaning all of a sudden you need x2 the space needed for the files.  Tears of the Sun (7Gb) x 2 = 14 GB.
Unless you know of another way to go from vob to divx?

and I'm not talking about burning to DVD, divx movies are 700Mb.......thats the point so it fits on CD

[BlaCkAdDa]

I don't think all the progs needed to do this are open source.

[SigTom]

Doesnt matter, its not practical.  No programmer worth his salt would touch this, as it would take WAY to long for it  to work on an Xbox.  If you want this so badly, either use the PC you already have access to, or get a job, slave away for hours on end, and get a better PC.  We all have to do it to get the stuff we want.

[myffonline]

QUOTE

well, following the tutorial xbox dvd to PC to Divx.... you have to make the file into an ISO....meaning all of a sudden you need x2 the space needed for the files. Tears of the Sun (7Gb) x 2 = 14 GB. Unless you know of another way to go from vob to divx?

Yeah I did an update for that tutorial but they never put it up. Basically the update took away the step of making the vobs into an image file. The new tutorial was broken down into three simpler steps.

1. Copy vobs off dvd in xbox drive to PC hard drive through FTP
 (you must run the dvd for a few secs then reboot to your dashboard and use ftp to copy the vobs onto your pc.)

2. Use a progam like vobdec.exe (vobdecrypter) to decrypt the vobs separately once they are on your PC.

3. Use autogordianknot or vidomi or whatever to encode vobs into divx.

Easy.

[Mr. Chips]

QUOTE (myffonline)

Yeah I did an update for that tutorial but they never put it up. Basically the update took away the step of making the vobs into an image file. The new tutorial was broken down into three simpler steps. 1. Copy vobs off dvd in xbox drive to PC hard drive through FTP (you must run the dvd for a few secs then reboot to your dashboard and use ftp to copy the vobs onto your pc.) 2. Use a progam like vobdec.exe (vobdecrypter) to decrypt the vobs separately once they are on your PC. 3. Use autogordianknot or vidomi or whatever to encode vobs into divx. Easy.

thank you thank you thank you!  
now to free up 9 gigs, lol