Hello peeps. I have a bit of an odd question for you.... I have purchased a sumvision cyclone media player for my daughter for christmas, to which i am connecting an external hard drive. It is however of fairly limited space so i am trying to cut the file sizes of her existing dvd collection down. The media player is capable of reading ISO's as well as avi etc, so im wondering what is going to get me the best quality, am i better to make avi files from her dvds or use dvd shrink and make ISO's of a similar size? Thanks
Converting a lot of DVD's is time consuming. If it was me, I would save a lot of time by getting a 1 TB drive and loading the images.That way you keep the movie menus. If my math is correct: 1000000000000 รท 4000000000 = 250 I assume the media player can handle either fat32 or ntfs formatted HDDs - since the largest, single, file that fat32 can handle is 4GB.
There is no DVD standalone player on the market that can playback DVDs properly, so putting ripped DVDs on an external HDD is no option. Encoding to AVI is okay, using enough bitrate will make you see no difference, however it will take considerably take more time than transcoding with Shrink.
Thanks folks. Attar, your probably right, i would be as well to stick my hand in my pocket and fork out for a bigger hard drive and yes, the player supports both ntfs and fat32. @ Chetwood, cheers for the reply but im not sure i understand what your on about? im using a media player - not a dvd player, and this media player does indeed handle image files of dvds rather well.
