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Posted by Gary on 08/08/07 13:51
<jeffambrose424@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 7, 4:48 pm, Colin Wilson
> <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgr...@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>> > What is the best program to make the conversion balancing loss of
>> > quality with ease of use ?
>>
>> There are several apps that will rip to mpeg / divx (autogk.me.uk for
>> instance), but for general file conversion I use "Super"
>>
>> http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
>>
>> Sadly, the owner of the site tried to make it as f*cking hard as
>> possible to find the download link for some reason...
>>
>> What might be really useful would be to buy a divx capable player -
>> that way you should be able to dodge most conversion problems !
>>
>> I still find I have to re-convert from divx5 to divx4 for my player
>> though to get the best compatibility :-/
>
> Ah, I'll look into that, thanks. I had bad experiences with Divx.
> Don't know
> why. I tried some encoding on it a while back, and it just produced a
> picture
> that was not as good as regular VOB or MPEG2/4, or even AVI. It was
> bloody
> slow to process also.
>
> What I've done lately is use IFOedit and VOB Blanker and manually edit
> the
> VOB files on my HD. Guess what? It worked. Almost. The PAL disc
> works
> in my player now, but the problem is I lost the reason I wanted it to
> work.
> The subtitles. So the picture, menus, audio is ok, but I lost the
> subtitles.
>
> But when I pop the disc in my computer - subtitles are there.
>
> I think I'm going to pull out my wallet, thin as it is, and buy a
> multi region player.
You probably meant to say MULTI SYSTEM i.e. PAL and NTSC not multiregion
i.e. Australia -USA
What you really need is REGION FREE and MULTI SYSTEM.
I know Amazon.co.uk do these but I don't know if they ship overseas.maybe
Amazon.com do them
Cheers
Gary
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