TBoneit said:
Maybe I missed something why would you take a perfectly good mpeg2 file and convert it to divx?
Personally, I re-encode all my stuff into XviDs. Why? Same quaility, but much smaller. Instead of lugging DVDs around, I load up a bunch of movies onto my laptop's hard drive. Saves battery power since the DVD drive uses more power, and much easier to deal with. Some people compress stuff too small and the quality isn't very good. I'm more for quality. Or, I can redo stuff for my son's PSP instead of buying a UMB that can ONLY be played on that machine. I picked up a UMD movie recently that was for Region 2 and couldn't watch it(I COULD hack the PSP, but since it's my son's, I don't). Sony got a NASTY letter from me about the stupidity of region codes. Needless to say, I'll probably never buy another UMD. I'll just buy memory sticks.
TBoneit said:
You just run DVD Patcher on it to patch it to DVD specs, add to TMPGEnc DVD Author for example, Unpatch back to DVB orginal specs and then author. So far the DVDs created that way play on anything I've tried them in including Sony Changers and Sonys are picky. Apex, Sony, RCA and many of the cheapo DVD players can play them. Not all do and it needs a test to see but going that route the image quality is exactly the same as was broadcast to the 510. I mentions the TMPGenc DVD Author as it has a trial version. I use 1.5. I wouldn't use the 2.0 as it will watermark the menus.
This info is useless to me. I don't run WinDoZe. Way too insecure and problematic. I don't run Anti-virus, Anti-spam, firewall, or any other useless programs. No need to. Further, I have NEVER owned an actual DVD Player. I watch Movies on a projector hooked to a computer or on my laptop. Also, since Linux overrides the Region Codes, I can watch DVDs from anywhere in the world.