Forget ripping DVD, try this!

[Crashman]

Hey, I had a brainstorm, and tried it. Ok, I have a system with a Creative DXR2 decoder. Why use a decoder card on a modern system? It has a little tweak that lets me make professional quality Macrovision Free backups of DVD's to VHS through the Composite Out, with any aspect ratio I choose. So anyway, I get this idea-why not send the S-Video output from my DXR2 card to my video capture card and record in MPEG format? Recording from my PC to my PC in real time! Guess what, it works! Problem-my machine is not fast enough to decode DVD's and record MPEG's at the same time, resulting in poor quality recording! I think that since both of these cards are on the same PCI bus as the hard drive controller, there might have been too much information to pass on that bus. On the other hand, it is possible that I exceeded the capabilities of my PIII 933. I ended up playing it on one system and recording it on another. If anyone else thinks their system is capable of recording DVD's from a decoder card to a capture card on the same system at high resolution/high quality sound, give it a try and get back to me with the results.

Video killed my Radio Card!

 

[HolyGrenade]

I have a DXR3 and a WinTV PVR on an Athlon 650 and it works just fine. But I still can't be bothered with ripping DVDs. I just buy them.


<font color=red><i>Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say
today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday

 

[Matisaro]

This is the exact reason that copyright protection schemes will never work, (for mp3 etc.) because all you have to do is put the decoded output signal (be it video or audio) into a line in on your pc or another pc.( audio would be easy, you should be able to run a line from line out right into line in and record the resulting wav). Copyright protection trys to limit a person from sending files to others, or only allows poeple to play files they own on their machine or player, but no matter what kind of coding/encryption they do, the data will be, has to be, out in the open at at least at one time in the process....the output to the viewing/listening device. Thus no copyright system can prevent illegal(so they say) copying of the resultant data. Once you have a copy of the output you can encode it in any free manner you choose. Watermarking/encrypting/etc. mp3's,DVDs, etc. will never stop them from being free to those who wish to get them via other, less legal, means.

~Matisaro~
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