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west17m

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« on: July 03, 2003, 10:38:00 AM »
If this is a project already, somewhere, I apologize.  It seems as though many people have been trying to copy dvd's from the dvd drive on their xbox.  Obviously this is possible; however, the files are normally encrypted.

Here's the question:  what do you think the timeframe would be to develop such a program?  It would be very similar to xbcopy only for dvd's (mayhaps both).  For the hypothetical, we'll assume moderate competancy in directx, software engineering, and project design.

Please throw out ideas, concerns, etc, etc.
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Heet

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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2003, 11:51:00 AM »
a couple of groups may be working on this still but i heard they aborted because the movies take up so much space that it(the app) wouldnt be used that much so they went on to bigger and better things.
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ZWinFlame

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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2003, 06:31:00 PM »
dvd2xbox should do what you have asked for.
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west17m

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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2003, 06:58:00 PM »
To my knowledge, dvd2xbox has nothing to do with ripping movies (i.e. the kind you play in a dvd player).  I believe you are mistaken for xbox games.
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« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2003, 08:21:00 PM »
jeez, i cant believe how wrong i was.  Cool app!
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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2003, 10:13:00 PM »
not sure abotu audio quality... you can obviously set this though to whatever you want.. i use dvdx2 to rip dvds to the comp and i know you can set 6 channel dolby surround sound somewhere?

or so i think.
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2003, 01:59:00 AM »
to rip to avi, you'll want to keep the ac3 sound that's encoded within the vob files.
to rip to mpeg2, you'll want to convert the ac3 stream to mpeg 5.1.

I use VirtualDub to do video encoding and BeSweet to do my audio encoding when I rip dvds - it let's you do all this.
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« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2003, 03:09:00 AM »
Abit of topic People
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« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2003, 04:48:00 AM »
QUOTE (dfunked @ Jul 16 2003, 04:30 AM)
nope he was right, dvd2xbox rips the vob files to your hdd. these files are huge though.. would be good to have some sort of ripping program made for the box to convert to mpeg2 or 1?

DVD vob's are mpeg2, you could downsample them turn them into svcd's but I prefer the whole 2/3 disc xvid rips with the AC3 soundtrack still intact.
Why would you rip a dvd to mpeg1? VCD's are poor quality (Comparatively) and VBR mpeg1 while is better than CBR VCD it's just not upto the standard of VBR mpeg2 bitrate for bitrate.

I can understand the ripper (the best use's have already been mentioned but an encoder why not use your pc it will (Probably be quicker, more options and just plain better.

I get 40 frames a second 2pass maximum quality on my 2.4ghz (Normal)
I get 57 frames a sec same setting under xp. (Hyperthreading)

I get 11 frames a sec on my P3 733 pc

Now I know the OS takes a nice chuck of processing power but I don't see it being viable.

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