Just a couple of questions

[unclepercy]

Someone lasso me. I am out in the pasture. For several years, I made archive copies of DVDs very quickly and easily with X-Copy Platinum. Then, it suddenly quit working and became obsolete. I never had to delete anything I downloaded, and X-Copy cut right to the movie, skipping over the trailers. I had a top of the line HP Entertainment Center with 80 gig.

Now I have fallen out of the loop and wonder what current software has replaced X-Copy? I used to hang out at www.afterdawn.com and found it to be pretty helpful, but I think I am so far behind I'll never catch up. I now have a top of the line VAIO entertainment system with 200 gig. What software (Not NERO!) do you recommend for burning archive DVDs? Thanks.

Uncle

 

[LittleRunningGag]

AnyDVD (strips copyright) in conjunction with CloneDVD (rips/burns the DVD). Those are about the only two softwares that haven't been sued out of existance yet.

 

[DurkaDurka]

dvdshrink is the best all around tool I have used for backing up dvd's etc.

 

[#juan]

I got a bit of extra software with my new DVD burner, Does anyone know about Power DVD or Power Producer

 

[DurkaDurka]

Power DVD is great for viewing dvd movies on your pc. Hopefully they gave you a full version with your puchase, not a trial version. Power producer I believe is for creating your own dvd movies, it will alows you to import avi/mpeg2/wmv, then edit clips, combine them etc

 

[#juan]

Thanks yet again Durka

I think the best way I'm gonna learn is by doing. I'll probably screw up a few DVDs but they're cheap. My son downloaded and absolutely flawless version of one of the top renting movies apparently from a legal site. I would imagine that some of these sites are a little close to the line.

 

[cdn_bc_ca]

If you are going to download movies or tv shows, I suggest you install PeerGuardian and use it in conjunction with your downloading. Other than that, you don't need it running all the time. It is free and blocks most sites that are controlled by the emm-pee-ayy-ayy and the arr-eye-ayy-ayy (the famous associations that can sue you out of existence). That last thing you want is to download a movie hosted by the them.

Cheers.

 

[#juan]

I've used Bit Comet to download a few movies. It seems to work allright but occasionally a movie is very dark. I think this is from the source..........if I download the same movie fron another source it will probably be okay.

 

[temperance]

I bought xp via ebay.ca for 1/3 of the price of the retail ,no problems ,then I forgot (lost) the product code ---and Microscoft (for 15.00 ) gave me a new code ,they dont do it anymore ,but xp is still avaiable via ebay at much lower cost, it is OEM but Like I said 2 years now no problems
Would that be a solution ?:smilebox:

 

[temperance]

Heres a example ,there much cheaper ones ,please if you have never ebayed ,make sure you understand how to ebay and ensure sellers is honest ,offer refund ,payal affliated and so one

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Microsoft-Window...7QQihZ007QQcategoryZ41887QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I hope this helps :wave:

 

[#juan]

I'm really happy to read that. I paid $249.00 plus tax from Staples.....:?

 

[temperance]

Sorry ,I didnt know I wouldnt have mentioned it ,Iam sorry pls right it off somewhere in taxes --lol

Why didnt the xp come with the puter you bought ?

 

[DurkaDurka]

I've used Bit Comet to download a few movies. It seems to work allright but occasionally a movie is very dark. I think this is from the source..........if I download the same movie fron another source it will probably be okay.

Juan, anytime you download a movie which someone has compressed on your own, you face the risk of it being too dark, pixelated or audio/video sync issues. It all depends on what type of codec they compress the movie with. Thats why I usually just download the dvd image, that way it's identical as you would see it on a dvd, and you could burn it yo a dvd if you so wished.

 

[#juan]

Juan, anytime you download a movie which someone has compressed on your own, you face the risk of it being too dark, pixelated or audio/video sync issues. It all depends on what type of codec they compress the movie with. Thats why I usually just download the dvd image, that way it's identical as you would see it on a dvd, and you could burn it yo a dvd if you so wished.

That is interesting. Sounds like a long download. Does this mean I can burn it directly onto a disc with no further processing, compressing..etc.?

 

[#juan]

Durka

I'm downloading a DVD image right now.(over 4 gigs) This might not be the best time because it looks like it will take a month. I'll let it go for the rest of theday and see how it looks.

 

[DurkaDurka]

That is interesting. Sounds like a long download. Does this mean I can burn it directly onto a disc with no further processing, compressing..etc.?

That is correct.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Durka

I'm downloading a DVD image right now.(over 4 gigs) This might not be the best time because it looks like it will take a month. I'll let it go for the rest of theday and see how it looks.

I usually queue up large download for overnight, doesn't affect your browsing etc that way. Are you using bit torrent?

 

[#juan]

I'm using Bit Comet as a client....downloading from isohunt. Not many connected peers or seeds but I hope that will improve. It doesn't seem to effect my browsing. I thoght I would let it go all day and all night...right now there is 22 hrs remaining.

 

[DurkaDurka]

If there are no active seeds for the file, it can take forever and a day to download. New movies download pretty fast, if it is an obscure or older title, results may vary.

 

[#juan]

We have 8 connected seeds

The movie is very new...