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DVDs and Digital Copies

Overheal · 2008-12-11 02:55:18

I've off and downloaded a bunch of Public Domain movies onto the laptop and am after realising they use up a lot of space :x So I want to burn them to a DVD in such a way that a) they can be played on a dvd player and b) they can easily be retreived as movie files for playback on the laptop (DVD spin-up uses far too much…

11-12-2008 2:55am

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Overheal

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I've off and downloaded a bunch of Public Domain movies onto the laptop and am after realising they use up a lot of space :x

So I want to burn them to a DVD in such a way that a) they can be played on a dvd player and b) they can easily be retreived as movie files for playback on the laptop (DVD spin-up uses far too much battery power for my liking) Is there a good way to do this or should I just skip the DVD-Player playback and just burn a bunch of archive disks?

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#2 11-12-2008 2:59am

AlmightyCushion

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Burn them as a dvd for playback on a dvd player then burn the compressed files to a dvd for archiving purposes. Dvds cost sweet fúck all nowadays.

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#3 11-12-2008 6:43am

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Yeah but carrying around 2 bits of plastic is just...gah. I'll go archivin' :pac:

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#4 11-12-2008 11:09am

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Buy your self a DVD player that plays Divx, they are very inexpensive nowadays

That way you can burn them onto a regular DVD, it will play on your DVD player and can be easily dragged off onto your laptop

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