Bradish

Originally Posted by ztoddman1

AFter tinkering around with the DVD Decryptor, I reazlized that several of my movies were coming out at almost 6GBs. No wonder that it was saying insufficient disk space. How can I shrink this down?

In the tutorial I did point out that you can need up to 7GB of free HDD space for this to work in some cases. Since you are ripping uncompressed DVD footage, it ends up being huge. So try ripping to another place and then if you have to, encode to another drive with more space. Even though i have 130GB just for movies, I always get rid of the RAW dvd footage after I'm done so I have plenty of space for the next dvd.

Originally Posted by Gokuu_Elemental

Well I don't think that would have an effect on your SD card because after you take out the .vob files and re-encode them, they change size. After DVD Decrypter, the files are 6-10GB, but once you use AutoGK, the files are a determined size, whatever you determine, so that should have nothing to do with insufficient disk space. UNLESS, your PC is telling you that you have insufficient disk space, then you should delete some stuff off your Hard Drive.

Exactly Right.


-Brad

Gokuu_Elemental

Originally Posted by Bradish

Even though i have 130GB just for movies, I always get rid of the RAW dvd footage after I'm done so I have plenty of space for the next dvd.

Yeah, what I plan on doing is ripping all the DVD's that I can, one at a time and putting them at about 400-500mb per file. After that, I delete the raw DVD footage and just leave the 400-500mb file. After I gather a couple of encoded DVD's (about 11) I'll burn them on a DVD data disc. With that, doing one DVD at a time, I'll eventually have a library of re-encoded DVD's that I can take with me and my laptop. That way, if I ever do not have access to my computer, I'll still have access to the .avi files to put on my Pocket PC.

ztoddman1

Thanks, however, I have 21G of free space, I would think that that is plenty. AFter each attempt, I go in and remove the files from the DVDDcryptor.

stanb17

Z,

Hmmm. That's certainly enough space. Is it contiguous? Why not list the complete systen specs on this thread and see if something strikes a thought with some of the other folks.

Stan

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stanb17

Here's an interesting question...

I am running NTFS on my A/V Production PC. It has massive resources, CPU, RAM, and vid. XP Pro, etc. When I try to dump the final compressed AVI's to my SD Card directly through my cheap-ass flash card reader/writer, then plug the SD card into the AXIM, I get a file format unknown error ( in BetaPlayer). ONLY when I go through all the BS of migrating the AVI's through my network to my "MotherShip" PC (NTFS as well) AXIM folder, then cutting and pasting the AVI into the SD card mounted in the AXIM, using Windows Explorer, does it actualy work. The downside here is.... That method takes for......e.....ver to load.
Question? Does the AXIM re-compile/convert AVI's on-the-fly to suit it's OS requirements when sending from PC to a mounted SD card? My thought is... an AVI is an AVI. So, why are AVI's loaded from PC to flash card hub unreadable, when the same AVI's loaded directly to the SD card work fine?

Hmmm sez I.

Stan

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AnctRanger

Goin' to give this a shot will let you know what if anything needs to be fixed. I've got the A03 upgrade so shouldn't have any and oh yes Thank You for sharein' this. Later off to see a movie

dave2002

This all looks very interesting.

One thing though, when encoding videos for small screens, to do a really good job one needs to run anti-aliasing software appropriate for the screen size and frame rate to be used. Simply using compression algorithms may not be good enough, as although these may do some filtering, the filtering is not properly matched to the application.

Whether it's really worth the bother is somewhat open to question, the results will also depend on the particular video, and in any case tools to do the necessary filtering may be difficult to find.

I've heard that Adobe After effects has some tools which may work.

Dave

stanb17

Anti-aliasing can also be performed (at a much lower cost and less time) by acquiring and installing a few pints of Ale. Truth is... the amount of aliasing I've seen on Family Guy is not so much as to distract from the hilarious antics of little Stewie.
Perhaps if someone had the time to recompile a higher-brow animation, like Pixar's Finding Nemo or Shrek, they could report to this thread their observations on aliasing.

Stan

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Gokuu_Elemental

Sorry for being a complete noob, but just trying to learn more about audio and video, what exactly is anti-aliasing and what does it do?

stanb17

Rather than try and explain... read this...

http://www.widearea.co.uk/designer/anti.html

S

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Gokuu_Elemental

Is that what ClearType uses in order to make the text look a lot more clear and not so pixelated?

Also, I downloaded and ripped Family Guy and the animation is simply awesome, the outlines of the characters are kind of dark, but the color is simply awesome! It looks so clear at only 89MB. That means I could put like 7 or 8 on my 1GB card, but I guess it would be good to use on real life movies. Where can the software be found to anti-alias a movie? Just Adobe After Effects?

stanb17

Welcome to the Dark Side.

I would first try and see of the aliasing issue is so bad you deem it necessary to apply anti-aliasing correction. I say this because I have a 3:30 video I shot in DV crunched onto the AXIM and it looks fine. PLUS... we ain't talk'n HDTV here.

Stan

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ztoddman1

I figured out that I had a file on my PC that was taking up almost 11G of stuff so that is my problem for the PC giving me the insufficient space but my laptop has 25 free G so I am clueless on that one. Will post my specs on Wed when I return back to the house.

Gokuu_Elemental

Well, I'm a quality type of guy, and I think the 90MB episode of Family Guy is good, I put my Naruto episodes at 225MB for 22 minutes and I think they are superb, plus 192 kbps on the Audio.

As for ztoddman1, I don't see why 25GB would give you any problems, DVD's are only 5-8GB in space, so it shouldn't be a problem. However, I have a 1.4 Athlon XP with 256MB DDR and It takes me about 5-6 hours per DVD... I can't wait to get a 1.86 Pentium M with 512MB Ram...

ztoddman1

It is very frustrating. I did delete the 10G I had in a file so that freed up 22G that I attempted to burn this afternoon but ran out of time before I had to go to work. Hopefully in the morning, I will not see the "insufficient disk space" and find my computer shut down. That would make me happy. Still not sure why my brand new laptop is giving me issues.