"Ripping" DVD's to Watch on the N810 ????
 

I assume this can be done. What software is does this well? What size SDHC card does one need?

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Please post only once ( http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...d.php?p=102771 )
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Re: "Ripping" DVD's to Watch on the N810 ????
 

With that out of the way.
What platform are you on?
As that will determine which application(s) you can use.

Re: "Ripping" DVD's to Watch on the N810 ????
 

I use XP home edition. how much space do they take up when you rip them anyway?

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So, you're looking at DVD shrink or similar. A traditional rip will take ~4GB. Can be less depending on the movie & audio.

Downsizing from DVD size to fit the IT screen + from 5ch audio to 2ch audio will put you in the 350-500MB range.

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super, very helpful, any programs you recommend to do that?

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Get any standard DVD ripper (DVD Clone from Slysoft as one ex.) to rip the DVD's

Then use the Nokia Video Converter or tablet-encode to reencode the video to the tablet's best form-factor.

Re: "Ripping" DVD's to Watch on the N810 ????
 

The linked search results describe several methods of action to get the data ripped & converted.

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A search of DVD TO GP3 finds many programs to do this and small files result. I was able to get 9 movies onto a 6 GB card (and 100 songs) with space to spare.

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If you've got a decent copy of mencoder, tablet-encode can do it without any other software:

This'll rip the longest title on the DVD to "myfilm.avi" at the "average" preset.

HTH,

Andrew

Re: "Ripping" DVD's to Watch on the N810 ????
 

Very useful, I was able to watch a couple of DVDs and TV programmes on a recent flight! :)

I did find a couple of problems with some conversions. In one case, converting a DVD, I got the German rather than English soundtrack. In another, converting a TV programme (recorded on a Topfield PVR), the audio description track was picked rather than the normal audio. So, any hints on how to work out how to specify the correct audio track, when the default settings don't work? (In most cases, for both DVD and recorded TV, the default options for tablet-encode worked fine.)

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You can also do it in one step using handbrake. I open the DVD in Handbrake (which has a windows version...I'm doing it in Linux), and do the following:

Change the format to mkv (you can probably leave it as mp4, I believe mplayer can handle this as well)
Picture tab: Set the video to 400 and let the vertical resolution default,
Audio tab: Audio codec -> mp3 (lame)

Click start, then wait for the output. It will be larger than the 400-500MB stated above, but the quality will be really good. If you need a smaller file, you can adjust the slide under Constant Quality (mine defaults to RF:20 (61%)) or set the bitrate or target size.

--vr

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Hmm. You can force the audio tracks by using -m and referring to the aid documentation for mplayer/mencoder.

tablet-encode tries to do the right thing by looking at the value of $LANG. The output of mplayer -identify dvd:// would be useful, and the value of $LANG.

Re: "Ripping" DVD's to Watch on the N810 ????
 

I think I've found the problem; I didn't have 'mplayer' installed, so the tablet-encode script emitted some cryptic errors, and did the best it could (which was fine, sometimes). Now I've got mplayer, it seems to be working fine. I haven't tried again with the same DVD that I had problems with before, but when I find it, I'll check it.

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CloneDVD mobile from Slysoft has an n800 automatic setting - very handy.