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That's the risk one takes when they chose to do it.
That's when you encode to drop the bitrate. Raw films, ripped directly drom a Blu-ray or HD-DVD disc, can be anything from 20-26GB (depending on the film, of course).What I don't get is why would you need as much space as a Bluray disc provides? A one hour 720p rip is about 1 gig, and HD-DVDs hold 15 or 30 gigs, right? That should be more than enough for a few hours of 1080 footage and various bonus features and languages.
What I don't get is why would you need as much space as a Bluray disc provides? A one hour 720p rip is about 1 gig, and HD-DVDs hold 15 or 30 gigs, right? That should be more than enough for a few hours of 1080 footage and various bonus features and languages.
^ I see, thanks for the info. Although I do play x264 on a rather old Athlon64 3500+ without problems, mainly 720p but I played the 1080 polar rip of Top Gear as well.
So I'm guessing Blu-ray movies aren't encoded with x264, and are rather encoded with regular H264 which doesn't compress as much? Sorry for the noob and offtopic questions, I just can't ever wrap my head around all these video format and codecs.
Encoding: MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), and VC-1
Really? I have an Athlon64 4000+ and that struggles with 1080p video. What graphics card/memory do you have? It's one of the main reasons I'm building a new PC.^ I see, thanks for the info. Although I do play x264 on a rather old Athlon64 3500+ without problems, mainly 720p but I played the 1080 polar rip of Top Gear as well.
You should emphasize on a quick CPU and a graphics card that supports HDTV playback. I've played many different HDTV formats on my current daily-PC, which has an Athlon 64 4000+ and onboard graphics (the board is the AsRock ALive NF7G-HDReady and has a nVidia chipset).I'm also looking at building a new PC, specifically an HTPC, which is the reason I'm so curious about this kind of stuff.
There are bargains from Intel as well, such as this one:^ I'm hopefully not going to be on a limited budget. I'm thinking of a faster C2D, maybe quad-core?
I'm not sure if even the graphics cards with HDMI output also offer sound. The interface surely could manage it, but usually graphics cards don't deal with sound. Therefore, I'd transfer sound digitally by S/P-DIF.I can't really figure out video cards. Very few have HDMI outputs (none that I can buy here), but I understand DVI-D goes up to HD resolutions so all I'd need is a DVI -> HDMI converter to hook it up to an LCD. But then I'd need to have a separate cable for the sound, and then I guess I would need a sound card that would work with my TV or receiver.
^ I have a gig of RAM and a 256mb ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I looked and the HD rip of Top Gear that I have is just the 720p version.
Well I can say I predicted this one correctly I knew that the companies would go for technology with more space, to make it harder to burn and with more technology on it to (try to) stop pirating. I am happy its over, sad to see whats going to happen to the companies that supported it, they are going to lose a lot of money.
Really? I have an Athlon64 4000+ and that struggles with 1080p video. What graphics card/memory do you have? It's one of the main reasons I'm building a new PC.
I'm building a very decent PC at the moment, which will be able to handle it (along with a few other things, mentioning no names *whispers* Crysis), saying goodbye to AMD because their latest CPUs just can't keep up with Intel's offerings. The CPU I want hasn't actually been released yet, I'm still waiting :lol:Same! I have the 4000+ as well! And I also have problems with it. It runs smoothly as long as I'm not doing anything else. And the audio still lags behind slightly.
I'm opting for quad-core, the reasons being: by all accounts dual-core systems just don't deal with operations with the smoothness and unflappability of quads; for the overclocking potential; superb multitasking, and awesome single-operation speed too; a certain amount of future-proofing; and, come on, how cool is the word 'quad'?^ I'm hopefully not going to be on a limited budget. I'm thinking of a faster C2D, maybe quad-core?
I can't really figure out video cards. Very few have HDMI outputs (none that I can buy here), but I understand DVI-D goes up to HD resolutions so all I'd need is a DVI -> HDMI converter to hook it up to an LCD. But then I'd need to have a separate cable for the sound, and then I guess I would need a sound card that would work with my TV or receiver.
Nothing against Quad-Cores (I'm currently building one as well), but the overclockability surely is better with single and dual cores, because the chance of a core failing to accept the higher speed rises with multiple cores.I'm opting for quad-core, the reasons being: by all accounts dual-core systems just don't deal with operations with the smoothness and unflappability of quads; for the overclocking potential; superb multitasking, and awesome single-operation speed too; a certain amount of future-proofing; and, come on, how cool is the word 'quad'?
yeah that region locking is great technology, I especially love it when they don't release dvd's in region 4 for several years or not at all and then make us pay a premium on disks.