DVD Decrypter and the Juarez Alert

[andyf]

haha I haven't used DVD Decrypter in ages. Just ripped a DVD to HDD and the damn "rip complete" noise just boomed (tinkled, even) out of the speakers.

It's like a warez klaxon, it really is :)

[Joey]

obviously this would be for "legitimate backup" purposes andy?

[Cheez]

There's no such thing as a legitimate backup of a DVD movie, unless its a movie you made yourself. The European Copyright Directive has binned the concept of "Fair Use".

[RocketKnight]

He didn't say he was ripping a film. It could have been a DVD with backup data on it. Doubt it though. ;)

[Cheez]

I thought DVD Decryptor only did films... :)

[WhiteKnight]

It better not be one of andy`s "special" films...

[andyf]

I'm ripping the new car DVD's I bought so I can throw them on the laptop and watch them at work, now that I'm sitting in an 'advantageous' position (i.e. opposite end of the room to the boss), and the DVD drive in the laptop is special. Really speshull.

I may have got my settings wrong in Nero Recode, however. This AVC quality rip has taken 2hrs26 so far and is only 39% done.

[RocketKnight]

Originally posted by Chris
I thought DVD Decryptor only did films... :)
Hah! I always thought it was capable of both. But I just loaded it up to try and it will only do films. For some reason I really did think it could rip standard ISOs too!

[andyf]

5.7 frames per second on the encoding.

(insert mild insult about graphics card industry missing some useful stuff for X years here).

I was tempted by the X1900 anyway, but with the hardware encoding help it brings to the table (AVIVO?), I think its just made my buying justification more solid.


In product terms, the R520, RV530 and RV515 (Radeon X1800, X1600 and X1300 respectively) will all support VPU/GPU assisted transcode to/from any of the following media formats: H.264, VC-1, WMV9, WMV9 PMC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX. For those of you who are not familiar with the term "transcode", it refers to the re-encoding of video into a different bitrate and/or different format (e.g. going from an MPEG-2 DVD to an H.264 avi file).

All Avivo enabled graphics cards will support this GPU assisted transcode; the only requirement will be that the appropriate Catalyst driver is installed.

We have no word as to how much of a performance boost you'll see with the GPU assisted transcode, although the largest gains will be going from formats like MPEG-2 to something like H.264. (The reason being that H.264 encoding is incredibly slow using CPU-only encoding right now.)

BINGO! (/smash TV)

[Joey]

but it's an ATI card - the drivers will crash your machine and randomly swap colours in your movies and cause nazis to go round riding on dinosaurs!!!

[Afty]

Originally posted by Chris
The European Copyright Directive has binned the concept of "Fair Use". But some people ignore laws that they believe to be unjust :)

[Switch`]

its like that little jingle that Clone CD has....