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    XP as GIANT Video iPod

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by IKilledClippy, Mar 18, 2008.

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    IKilledClippy Notebook Guru

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    Can anyone help me with this?

    I will be headed overseas for a trip in June and as such, planning months ahead is a good idea. Anyway, I have my music covered with my iPod. No issues there. I like the convenience that carrying my entire music collection on one little device rather than cart around a giant box of CDs gives me.

    Now I'd like to do it for my DVD collection. I was considering taking my laptop and an external hard drive such as a Western Digital Passport or something and putting my entire DVD collection on that. It's not a huge collection but my estimate would be that I'll need 500GB if not somewhat more. There is just one problem that I'm having trouble with and would like some help with.

    What I would like to do is to plug said drive into my laptop and click on something to get the movie going...as though I put a DVD in the drive. Menus, special features, everything. I'd like to load it and just click on the menu as if I have the physical DVD in the DVD drive. Anyone have any idea how to do this?

    I also don't want to sacrifice quality which is why I'm willing to get a massive hard drive for this. I've experimented with DVD Decrypter and it gives me VOB files of the DVD I chose but it looks compressed. It's really noticable if you watch something like, say, Letterman which is recorded to video rather than film. A lot of ghosting, etc. Same thing happens with film. I don't want to sacrifice any visual or sound quality on my trip and would like to enjoy the movies in their full DVD glory.

    Now, I realize the grey area of DVD ripping as it pertains to copy protection but these are DVDs I legally paid for and have no intention of putting them on any file sharing network or anything of the like. I just want the convenience of being able to travel with my media all in one "box" as opposed to packing more luggage.

    Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
     
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    IKilledClippy Notebook Guru

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    Oh yes, I've tried AoA's DVD ripper and it seems to work very well. It's only the god-awful ghosting/compression I have to deal with.
     
    IKilledClippy, Mar 18, 2008
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