looking for DVD ripping/avi encoding soft for ALPHA [Archive]

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cereal killa

20th February 2002, 18:44

I have an alpha and want to put it to work, please help!

diji1

21st February 2002, 08:25

Hi :),

Hey, uh, excuse my ignorance, but - what is this alpha you speak of ?!? OS ?... Pls explain!

wmansir

21st February 2002, 22:35

Alpha is a type of chip, like x86, PowerPC, SPARC, ect

There are Linux tools available, but I don't know how robust they are. Here is Doom's guide: http://www.doom9.org/divx_linux_guide.html

The guide doesn't deal with decrypting the DVD's so you may need a little more research, but this should be a good start (if your running linux)

good luck.

theReal

22nd February 2002, 04:53

Isn't there an win nt version for alpha? I have no idea, but I always imagined it just worked like the i386 WinNT.

cereal killa

24th February 2002, 21:28

I'm running winNT, redhat linux 64bit, and tru64 unix.

Thanks for the link, wmansir, I'll try it out.

theReal

25th February 2002, 11:47

Don't the windows tools work in winNT for alpha?

I have absolutely no idea because I never had an alpha, but it'd be interesting to know.

cereal killa

26th February 2002, 20:06

Yeah, some of them seem to work in NT, but that's only with 32bit emulation, which (I suspect) is much slower than full 64bit support.