mattbrown
6th September 2007, 03:24
I really hate to post this, but I have looked everywhere, and I have not really found a solution to my problem.
Simply put, I want to rip my HD-DVDs and convert them to a video format that will play on the Xbox 360 (preferably on the Windows Media Center Extender). I have been doing this for some time with standard DVDs using MPEG2 as the format. Video quality is really the only issue for me; audio and file size are not issues as long as the audio is synced with the video.
Also, I'm fairly new to the whole video codec and conversion scene, and I'm fairly unfamiliar with technical terms (e.g. I didn't even know "demux" was a word until a week ago). I think there are many folks like me out there that are used to having programs do all the dirty work for us and who are wanting to embrace the HD-DVD format like the DVD format but are finding that the resources for converting such video files aren't quite so simplistic and copious as they are for DVD. I'm willing to learn, I just don't know where to start, and my objective (ripping HD-DVDs to my hard disk and playing them on my Xbox 360) is narrow and not-so complicated. Thanks so much!
Simply put, I want to rip my HD-DVDs and convert them to a video format that will play on the Xbox 360 (preferably on the Windows Media Center Extender). I have been doing this for some time with standard DVDs using MPEG2 as the format. Video quality is really the only issue for me; audio and file size are not issues as long as the audio is synced with the video.
Also, I'm fairly new to the whole video codec and conversion scene, and I'm fairly unfamiliar with technical terms (e.g. I didn't even know "demux" was a word until a week ago). I think there are many folks like me out there that are used to having programs do all the dirty work for us and who are wanting to embrace the HD-DVD format like the DVD format but are finding that the resources for converting such video files aren't quite so simplistic and copious as they are for DVD. I'm willing to learn, I just don't know where to start, and my objective (ripping HD-DVDs to my hard disk and playing them on my Xbox 360) is narrow and not-so complicated. Thanks so much!