installing movies

[oneillmark2003]

Thank you for all your replies.

I had a look at the micro sd cards and the reader, the cards are sdhc and the card reader does not have a slot for sdhc cards only sd, I know the reader is an older one, so the conclusion I have come to is it cannot read sdhc cards.

Thankfully my pc has a dedicated slot and the films copied without any problems.

I rippped and decrypted the films using DVDfab HD decrypter.

Viewed them on the excel and quality looks fine and the kids will be watching them more than me.

One thing that has appeared is DVDfab.com logo in the top left hand side of the screen, but this does go eventually, again I don't think the kids will bother.

Thanks again

[Trashcooky]

Putting their logo on your films is a bit cheeky if it is a paid for version.

[Slipstreem]

@Trashcooky: I'll take that as a "No" then.

Cheers, Slipstreem.

[Trashcooky]

@Trashcooky: I'll take that as a "No" then.

Cheers, Slipstreem.

Hi Slipstream, Sorry I only just picked this up - It was not my intention to ignore you and I will try what you suggest when I get back. I am going away for a few days so won't be around to get involved. I am sure yor custom profile is fine and please don't think I was trying to upstage your promised "How To". I simply responded to an obvious need to produce a simple solution to getting films onto your Scroll. "WinX DVD ripper" does this in just a few clicks. Why don't you do your "How To" and then you won't be relying on just me to give an opinion. After all it is only my opinion and I am sure many have other methods which they are quite happy with. Sorry mate if any offence was caused, that is the last thing I want to do to any forum member. Look Forward to seeing your "How To" on here soon. Cheers

UPDATE I downloaded and installed MediaCoder. When it starts it tells me I have no internet connection (I Have). Got inside and unfortunately found it much much too techy for doing a simple conversion. Looks like I will need further instructions on how to import your customised xml file as well. Sorry mate I tried. Got to be my last post now as I'm off in the morning and need to pack. Please do your "How To" as this looks like a very sophisticated package and I'm sure it is just what some people are looking for. John.

[Slipstreem]

Hi TC. No offence taken, and none given I hope.

It was more a rant at the HandBrake guys for not having done a great deal of homework, as even following their guide produces results far short of what x264 as an encoder is capable of. It's such a shame as the same problem has existed for well over a decade with the MP3 audio standard with most front-end developers totally ignoring the LAME MP3 encoder developer's recommendations when it comes to internal settings, hence MP3 getting a bad name when it's almost impossible for anyone to tell a properly encoded MP3 track from an original CD master, but I digress, as is so often the case.

MediaCoder can be a little overwhelming on first sight, but running other people's profiles under it makes it no harder to use than any other package out there really. It's just a matter of getting the profile in there in the first place which may confuse some, so I'll briefly explain that part now with a quick 'how to' guide for the whole process (a full guide will follow when my holiday with my girlfriend is over and full geekiness resumes )...

1/ Install MediaCoder.

2/ Optional: Download the latest '8bit-depth' version of x264 from HERE and place it in the MediaCoder 'codecs' folder. You don't have to do this, but enhancements and bugfixes come thick and fast with x264, so it seldom hurts and usually helps to keep this up-to-date.

3/ Download my profile from HERE and save it into the MediaCoder folder or somewhere where you can find it easily.

4/ Run MediaCoder and select 'File, Load Preset'. Navigate to the folder where you saved the profile and load it in.

5/ Now click on 'File, Add File' to load up your unencrypted VOB file. Note: You can load multiple files here but it won't always join them properly, so it's better to join multiple parts of the same movie with a VOB joiner (Link) before loading it as one large file ideally.

6/ Click on the 'Start' button. If you'd like to determine an output path for the encoded movie, set one in the 'Output Folder' box at top-right before hitting 'Start'.

Encoding will take many hours to complete. I'm looking at around 5 hours for every hour of source material here on a 4GHz dual-core Intel Core2Duo CPU, so expect to leave it running overnight or all day for each movie. Your PC should still remain perfectly stable and fully usable for other tasks whilst encoding (unless it's faulty in some way), although encoding will naturally take longer if the machine is kept very busy by other tasks.

There are quicker methods for encoding to x264, but the quality won't even come close to allowing the encoder to make the kind of decisions this profile allows it to make at encode time. It really is worth the wait if quality matters to you. You're unlikely to find any other method that matches this for quality at the same file size of roughly 10MB for every minute of source material.

I'll be back with a full guide in a week or so but I can answer brief questions here in the meantime, so please ask if you need any further help or would like to know in which ways this differs technically from a typical HandBrake encoding. Have fun!

Cheers, Slipstreem.

[Trashcooky]

Hi SlipStream, great peice of work on MediaCoder but may I suggest you move it to the HowTo thread under a new topic perhaps entiltled "How to use MediaCoder for H.264." or something similar as this thread has really started to go astray from where it started. Regarding your other comment about putting links in to other posts. Navigate to the Forum subject where the post is located. When you find the correct post instead of opening it - right click and choose "Save shortcut to URL" (not sure if these are the exact dialogue box words but very close.) right-click and paste the shortcut into your post. all done.
I am using Win 7 and this is how I do it. It should be similar or easy to deduce in either Vista or XP.

[Mitre]

@ slipstream very good how to
if you would like to copy and paste this into a new topic here as people can then choose which way they would like to follow and i will then delete the post from here
as trashcooky said its going off topic