Posted by Confused on 09/15/05 20:11

In article <dgc6jj$cms$1@reader1.panix.com>,
retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.) wrote:

> In article <dgc20r$3qg$04$1@news.t-online.com>,
> LMO <lmo01'nospam'@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Hello. I downloaded a video file that has a suffix of .ratDVD. I changed it
> >to .avi, but only got audio. What am I supposed to do with this file to
> >enable a/v?
>
> It's a proprietary compressed format that requires the RatDVD player to
> view ... something constantly advertised on the freeware newsgroup; a
> media viewing concept whose value still eludes me.

I converted a ratDVD file to DVD and it took almost 12 hours on my 1 Ghz
PC. Argh, never doing that again. I've heard people online say it's
great for archiving their DL DVDs (???). Yeah, let's compress 8 GB into
700 MB and pretend we're preserving the quality.

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