Ripping!
November 9th 2010 06:43
Some time ago we bought a DVD HD (hard drive), which successfully copies movies and other programmes from the TV. I imagine it's been well and truly superseded by now, since the technology in this area is moving at a rapid pace, but it suits us.
We had hoped to be able to copy old video tapes onto it as well, but for some reason, when we tried to do this, the video player packed up. Such is life. Of course the videos will probably get lost or destroyed and thousands of hours of fun things our children - and other people's children - did will be lost to posterity. Such is life again...
I guess our sort of machine is an early version of a DVD ripper, something I hadn't actually come across before, but which appears to do similar things: it can copy the info from a DVD (preferably not one you've hired from the DVD shop) and then you can have a great deal of fun converting the movie into all sorts of other video. Quite why you'd want to do this I haven't entirely worked out yet, but I'm sure in due course, if I don't discover it for myself, someone else will inform me.
I mean, when I'm told online that the machine will convert to this vast array of formats - AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, H.264/AVC, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV, VOB, ASF, and DV as well as audio (MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, and OGG - then my mind just goes into boggled mode. Okay I know what WAV is, and MP4, but most of the others are unfamiliar territory to me.
With a DVD ripper you can add all sorts of effects to the original material - cut and paste it, as it were, add subtitles (if you really want) and a host of other things. I'm sure there are people out there who'd find this enthralling - just as I thoroughly enjoy using the Sibelius music program. It's all dependent on what takes your fancy.
We had hoped to be able to copy old video tapes onto it as well, but for some reason, when we tried to do this, the video player packed up. Such is life. Of course the videos will probably get lost or destroyed and thousands of hours of fun things our children - and other people's children - did will be lost to posterity. Such is life again...
I guess our sort of machine is an early version of a DVD ripper, something I hadn't actually come across before, but which appears to do similar things: it can copy the info from a DVD (preferably not one you've hired from the DVD shop) and then you can have a great deal of fun converting the movie into all sorts of other video. Quite why you'd want to do this I haven't entirely worked out yet, but I'm sure in due course, if I don't discover it for myself, someone else will inform me.
I mean, when I'm told online that the machine will convert to this vast array of formats - AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, H.264/AVC, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV, VOB, ASF, and DV as well as audio (MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, and OGG - then my mind just goes into boggled mode. Okay I know what WAV is, and MP4, but most of the others are unfamiliar territory to me.
With a DVD ripper you can add all sorts of effects to the original material - cut and paste it, as it were, add subtitles (if you really want) and a host of other things. I'm sure there are people out there who'd find this enthralling - just as I thoroughly enjoy using the Sibelius music program. It's all dependent on what takes your fancy.
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