[mythtv-users] Ripped DVD recordings have skips

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Apr 9 20:20:35 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:45:36AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday 09 April 2009 08:16:32 Allen Edwards wrote:
> > >>  Remember teh pyrates don't want to watch the video either, they just
> > >> want
> > >
> > > an exact copy which they can print off in the thousands/millions and flog
> > > off cheaply.
> >
> > Good point, but it was my understanding that you need to compress it to
> > make a copy because the writable disks don't have the capacity of the
> > commercial ones.
> 
> Not so, you can write to dual-layer disks, but the cost is higher and it takes 
> longer.
> 
> Usually you can just skip the crap they add on to the movies, it's an unusual 
> movie that is over 2 hours.

    True but that only buys you so much. There are plenty of movies that
are encoded at a higher bitrate and really do require a double layer disk.
Some movies are just going to be big.


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