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Aug. 5th, 2004 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickOn the "have to learn how to do video" front, it turns out that learning is far less important than time. One of the delays is that it apparently takes a considerable amount of hard drive to rip a DVD and, at least for dummies like me, there doesn't seem to be a way to just rip the episode in question. So... whole DVD. Eight gigs of hard drive, it said. I spent most of yesterday and some of this morning burning crap to CD and deleting it off my drive so that I'd have enough space to work.
Once I got that done, I ripped the DVD to hard disk as per the instructions. (Kids! This is WRONG! Do not read the information at www.doom9.org because then you could grow up to be a copyright-circumventing lawbreaker criminal person. Stay away from everything (especially the downloads) at www.doom9.org. I'm just saying...) It really did take eight gigs of drive space but other than that, everything went smoothly.
I'm convinced that people who do this on a regular basis also have other time-wasting hobbies to entertain themselves with because there is a great deal of time that elapses after clicking "Rip" or "Start" or "Encode" or whatever during which the computer is too busy to do much else. I worked on my knitting because my lame, several-years-old laptop does not really want to be a multimedia workstation and takes a good while to chew through these processes. It *does* them, which is a tribute to the software I am using (DVD Decrypter and DVDx, not that anyone should use these programs because they are a clear violation of the intent of the DMCA) and the solidity with which they run. I will also need to find me an .avi editing application, I reckon, because DVDx 2.2 appears to be encoding the entire freaking DVD as one great big huge gigantic episode. That will not do. I don't want to stop and check to be sure of this, though, because it is taking on the close order of two hours to perform the encoding and if I stop it to check on how things are going, I'm going to have to *grumble* start over from the beginning. SInce I'm about 70% done, I figure I can wait to see how it comes out.
I'll keep you posted.
Once I got that done, I ripped the DVD to hard disk as per the instructions. (Kids! This is WRONG! Do not read the information at www.doom9.org because then you could grow up to be a copyright-circumventing lawbreaker criminal person. Stay away from everything (especially the downloads) at www.doom9.org. I'm just saying...) It really did take eight gigs of drive space but other than that, everything went smoothly.
I'm convinced that people who do this on a regular basis also have other time-wasting hobbies to entertain themselves with because there is a great deal of time that elapses after clicking "Rip" or "Start" or "Encode" or whatever during which the computer is too busy to do much else. I worked on my knitting because my lame, several-years-old laptop does not really want to be a multimedia workstation and takes a good while to chew through these processes. It *does* them, which is a tribute to the software I am using (DVD Decrypter and DVDx, not that anyone should use these programs because they are a clear violation of the intent of the DMCA) and the solidity with which they run. I will also need to find me an .avi editing application, I reckon, because DVDx 2.2 appears to be encoding the entire freaking DVD as one great big huge gigantic episode. That will not do. I don't want to stop and check to be sure of this, though, because it is taking on the close order of two hours to perform the encoding and if I stop it to check on how things are going, I'm going to have to *grumble* start over from the beginning. SInce I'm about 70% done, I figure I can wait to see how it comes out.
I'll keep you posted.
