<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Kaufman gLaNDix</b> <<a href="mailto:glandix@lloydnet.org">glandix@lloydnet.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:35 PM, James Oltman wrote:<br>> DVD Shrink primarily uses DVD discs. However, there is an OPEN files<br>> button. It doesn't list out the type of files it is looking for. It<br>> just says, SELECT FOLDER THAT CONTAINS DVD FILES. I have never tried
<br>> that before. I assume the VOBs are what it is talking about. It<br>> works wonders for me.<br><br>hmm, interesting, i'll try it out ... wasn't sure, because a number of<br>programs seem to require both VOB and IFO files ...
<br><br><br>> You have the option to compress a DVD9 down to a DVD5 to fit on a<br>> DVD-R.<br><br>yeah, that's exactly what i want to do eventually ...<br><br><br>> I compressing so I remove the menus, extras, any audio I don't want.
<br>> On discs with both the DTS and DD5.1, I keep both. It doesn't<br>> specifically say DD5.1 or DTS, but it says ENGLISH then gives the size<br>> of the audio tracks. Obviously, the DTS will be bigger than the
DD5.1<br>> because there is more audio inforation there.<br><br>hmm, i didn't know that :) ... can't recall, does xine support DTS<br>passthrough or just DD? DD works great for me, i'm just curious :)<br><br><br>> It is a SUPER easy program to use. After that's done, I go to BACKUP,
<br>> and I save it to an ISO file, and on my MythBE, I have a samba share<br>> setup. I just drop the file onto the MythBE and voila! Done and<br>> Done.<br><br>cool, sounds like exactly what i'm wanting to do (with the addition of
<br>burning off the ISOs eventually)<br><br>thanks for the info!!!<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
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Xine does support DTS passthrough because I have done it before with
the Predator Special Edition. I saved the ISO file and it was
over 4.7 GBs without compression. I just hate to compress.
When I started watching in XINE, I right click and bring up the menu
and choose a different audio track and it worked. Keep in mind
that compressing the whole DVD isn't the best choice as sometimes you
get 50% compression. I did that with O Brother, Where Art Thou?
and it looks pretty bad. You can see the pixelation on screen and
it gets annoying. That would be one of those movies I would make
into an uncompressed ISO and drop on my backend. Good luck!<br>
<br>
Jim<br>