I Give Up! DivX you're out of here>>

I give up! I mean really, I give up on this whole DivX thing...:sly: So I've tried using GKnot to turn DVD's into DivX5's so I can fit an entire DVD onto 2 CDR's.... and guess what, its all NOT WORTH IT so I'm giving up! With SmartRipper I can put my .vob files into nice little 700mb packets and burn an entire DVD onto about 6-9 CDR's. I have perfect .vob's with the audio stream I want. With using Gknot, you tweak this and tweak that, and check this and uncheck that, and change this rate and adjust that, and then wait 6-8 hours for processing... only to end up with INFERIOR product to the original... MY GOD MAN, ITS NOT WORTH THE PAIN! So forget it all.:angry: I'll spend the extra 10cents per CDR and use more CDR's to burn an EXACT COPY of the DVD with perfect .vob's :D :D :D

Welcome friend.... ...to the land of, "okay, now that I know how, do I really want to?" next step for me was dvd2svcd....2 or 3cds then finally to dvd2dvdr, with the burners in the 250 range and the disks in the 1.00 range...well just makes more sense to me! Good Luck ;)

With DVD burners getting down to the sub $200 range - save and treat your self for XMAS and get one.

Where's the fun in that, you say? I say, "CHEAP STORAGE" I can't buy into this DVD-burner thing because there are too many formats. There is like four, right? DVD +/- R & RW Until things get standardized and cheaper, I'll wait. Who's to say they wont come out with a totally new format in 1-2 years which will be the standard. This will make all you DVD +/- R & RW buyers feels like the BETAMAX buyers felt.... Its too early in the DVD-burner Product-Life-Cycle to be making major buying decisions. Spending $300 for a burner and tying yourself into a format, buying discs at $1-$3 a piece. No thanks...I didnt start really getting into burning CDR's until the price per CDR was well below $1 a piece.

Well here is my reasoning on DVDs. Currently my sony home player and apex portable player play the DVD-Rs I record on my burner. I can store the equivalent of like 6 CD-Rs on one DVD. I pay $1.29 for Ritek DVD-Rs and less than $3 for Verbatims. That is pretty cheap storage. I also back my system up on DVD-RAM - fewer disks fewer problems. What is happening right now is a fight among the burner manufacturers to capture market share and future sales. It is cheap for a player manufacturer to build a machine that reads both DVD- and +R. So what is the risk. I see the BestBuy adds every Sunday for $100 players that read both. The greed of the manufacturers is capitalism at its best. They want market share and they get it by practically giving burners away to you for <$200. It is like Ford and GM killing each other with rebates and zero financing. The inefficiencies of capitalism benefit the consumer. I do enjoy my CD burner for music as my car stero doesn't play dvd -yet. Now I respect the guys that transcode and are into the technical aspect of burning CDs. I also know people can't go out and just spend money for a dvd burner. I was only advising that if one did have a few hundred bucks - they could simplify the process to their liking. Even if the technology changes drastically down the road I think it is great. I took my first fortran programming class in 1979. We punched cards. To me, the changes are cool and powerfull. Now you know - even older guys burn. :)