On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:19, Stroller wrote: > On 3 Dec 2006, at 19:03, Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Dec 2006, at 15:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:28:42 +0000, Mick wrote: > >>> I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to > >>> another > >>> DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my > >>> laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. > >> > >> If you want to be able to play it on a standard DVD player, you > >> need to > >> transcode it into MPEG2, the format used by DVDs, at a lower > >> bitrate... > > > > Since Mick has dual-layer DVDs he could even copy it ay the same > > bit-rate. He is experiencing problems because his DVDs are region- > > encoded & he has not decrypted them. > > Ooops! My apologies. > > Having read the previous thread I see that the problem is actually > 1/2way through burning. > > Although I'm not clear whether or not Mick has de-regionalised his > movies, my comments are nevertheless incorrect.
Thanks Stroller, I have not intentionally 'de-regionalised' the movie. However, I can: - Play them straight from the DVD drive with mplayer/xine. - Rip an iso of the DVD onto the hard drive, mount it and play any *vob files in it with mplayer/xine. - Use mencoder and turn each *.vob file on the hard drive into an *.avi, which I can thereafter play. What I can't do is save the DVD, or its iso onto a DVD+R DL. On the other hand if the quality loss is not that great and helps me save them on single layer (cheaper) re-writable DVDs, I don't mind transcoding them to a different lossy format. -- Regards, Mick
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