notebook HDD player

[richarddd]

I have an older notebook that I want to use as a DVD player while traveling. It doesn't have a built-in DVD drive, isn't very fast (350mhz) and has a 13" 1024x768 screen. I'd use an external firewire/usb drive for ripping.

The simplest way to proceed would be to use DVD Decrypter to rip an ISO and play with PowerDVD. The problem is that would take a lot of disk space.

If I use DVD Decrypter to rip selected VOB's from the DVD, will that really cause problems, as suggested by Doom9's guide?

Will I have better luck for these purposes using DVD shrink or gknot?

apologies if I missed something in the faq's, guides or search function.

thanks

[jeremymacmull]

well for your purposes i would have normally reccomended converting the DVDs to divx or xvid so they take up little space (700mb or possibly less if you skimp on quality a little) and so u can have many movies to watch while travelling using GKNOT or autoGKnot

BUT u only have a 350mhz which is no where near enough (probably) to run the movies in divx or xvid so that i think is a lost cause

maybe ull be able to run divx 3.11 stuff with your player with all the postprocessing stuff turned off in that case use GKNOT to make movies out of your DVDs in divx 3.11 stick to 1CD per film as 2 CD films need a lot more processor to play as higher bit rates and see if it works

there are a few other threads out there do a search about running divxs on really low spec pcs and they reccomend what to do in detail

something about FFDSHOW and all postprocessing off etc not sure

hope this helps

[richarddd]

>>something about FFDSHOW and all postprocessing off etc not sure>>

This appears to work. A ~700mb divx of xvid with media player classic and ffdshow usually results in a nicely viewable movie.

>>there are a few other threads out there do a search about running divxs on really low spec pcs and they reccomend what to do in detail>>

I'm having trouble finding these. Any other search suggestions?

thanks

[jeremymacmull]

Not sure what to look for but i can remember some of the suggestions they include running your TFT laptop monitor at 640X480 so that movies which are normally 640Xxxx dont need to be stretched etc and scaled which uses processor power (but if u are getting playable movies already dont worry about this)

Run in 16bit colour AND NOT 32 bit this will significantly reduce your processor overhead on a slow or very low spec system
(this is highly reccomend)

b frames and movies encoded with qpel and bframes need much more processor power than movies encoded without these features so if you encode movies dont use these features

thats about all i can remember for now

JEREMY

[richarddd]

thanks again