" War."

" This episode of system has brought you by. Netflix. Go to dot com. And the united states air force. Winner which means it's cold even here in San Francisco service developed a nice habit. Hopefully dvds off the shelves what are these few things haven't common getting your dvd collection off the shelves and into a video jukebox. How to rip encode movies you can watch it anywhere in the house without having to get out from under the comforter. On this episode of system."

" Well the system I'm Patrick Norton and I Roger -- David -- is currently on assignment making a light Saber. Actually making a lot of once it actually he's made a lot of light sabers. And now it's actually to be really cool when we do it on the show but for now branching to be talking about dvds. In this case something here. Son uses this for his -- he he -- of of the chair. He grabs dvds off the shelf and iphones over shoulders then picks the Chinese box that's the most he's really they -- store or like -- Open the box it's -- wander around the house dvds which means going to have a whole bunch of scratched dvds. Like I've ever had before actually have enough pictures of him doing this but he yes. He should put on his first website. This. Is scary thought. I also restore our desire to get all my movies off the shelves then we're video jukebox -- this episode it's all by having a couple of hundred movies I don't available at home theatre PC and media center or an Apple -- video jukebox show we're gonna show you how to take it dvd. Yes any dvd and essentially written the contents in re encoded for letter format. Your Apple TV your set top box stress -- sixty or even PS3. We'll need to play it on your big shiny HDTV yes then another episode following shortly well actually talk about the video jukebox and certainly the video throughout your house or whatever devices you want. Rogers -- on the PC router on going to be on the Apple over. Ripping is the fine art of getting the content off the disk it on your PC please don't encode movies in girl would appear darker side on the web it's sleazy. We figure though if you all the movies you should be able enjoyable whichever platform -- like which so movie companies feel as sleazy as a violation of the DM CA which technically of this copy protection movie it's definitely a violation of the MCA that applies American citizens just. Do us a favor don't pirate but don't make back up copies of movies don't all. Now one of the things that I've notes especially if your guess is they're all kind of scratch beneath -- it -- especially one that runs perpendicular to the radius of the disc you run the risk of not being able to read the data on the disk underneath that scratch. It's equivalent to skip or jump on record -- basically means you're gonna have nastiness we should have beautiful video and audio."

" Now the best way to remove scratches it is to use a light abrasive usually and they kind of nice solution typically used baking soda toothpaste. I'm not only is it great and keep it works wonders for your -- CDs and dvds. And essentially what you want to do is take a little bit onto the disk in when he grabs the cloth. You do not want a -- wonder rub it the way you list healthy is -- yes. So from the center of the disk out and ideally in one direction only not -- and yet --"

" Basically. Little bit of indictments -- or baking soda at Wimbledon the toothpaste. I have a fancy CD clear now ever since the epic CD crash in my now references to express is all 100 -- Richard you know put your CD. Jukebox wall fading picture you screwed into the wall so there's an earthquake just fall over."

" Or you know kids priority one thing to consider before you start seeing coding process is kind of put the the original source material it source material. Is it television show is of the movie is that a documentary. Reasons this. TV shows typically are interlaced and I don't want to build a one X. Long explanation Wikipedia has agreed explanation of what year is as yet just -- lacing as yet just Wikipedia interlaced and you get. Everything you ever wanted to know and not know about entirely -- because that will determine. Any kind of stuff pre processing you will need to do with the video before you start encoding because the final product should be a progressive source. Since you are play it on. A set top box a device which are pretty much all computers."

" If you find yourself you know copying with -- you're sort of all of your settings right you're encoding tool you're happy everything's going along great -- is -- it looks like. Awful -- but awful much better word yet and it didn't. You can start experimenting with the encoding and great way to do that is picked up chapter of the movie that looks particularly ugly. And experiment with just that chapter that way you're encoding -- putting three minutes of the movie instead of the entire movie and you can experiment with several different combinations of settings for like fifteen minutes. Instead of several different combinations of settings -- fifteen hours is your encoding entire movie and he speaks from experience because. It -- believe this this they would like."

" we didn't have to waste an hour and a half. But there's also something else copy protection most of the copy protection on discs you're not going to notice it's basically. Thanks to the efforts of some of our favorite hackers. Nobody really notices the copy protection -- place on those disks however certainly movie production houses and taking it upon themselves do you have scores of engineers figuring out new and exciting ways to me dvd -- run any traditional dvd player. That will however cause computer programs designed to rip and encode dvds to crash or simply not copy the movie or not -- the data. We'll talk more about how to deal that form of copy protection later again one last time please don't pirate movies please don't -- on peer to peer sites please. Copy and make copies or make copies for use of your own home network and portable devices and not for everybody in the planet I think -- and that's all we're talk about on the."

" So this. The thick -- one of the company that helps -- system you it to godaddy.com. If you want to make an impact on -- dot com has what you need the lesson five bucks in my -- web hosting for good at a dot com -- valued what I was an up I'm 24 sevenths support and read. Access to go getting hosting connected that'd be pleased to quickly fell with 53 applications. And applications you'll love word press you would Drupal OS commerce in quite a few more. You're -- system. Your friend of ours we got a hook up -- an Archos six team that's thats what -- asked to with a -- Apple's score additional five bucks off in the order of thirty dollars or more. Some restrictions applied please keep your daddy dot com for details and listen to over your system. Help us help you. -- get your PC Internet and did it dot com so this. Stuff."

" You're lucky enough to own a PC you have you know go literally. -- and Ireland a metric ton of tools available for you. For me I preferred dvd to creditors dvd -- HD. Auto Gordy and not an auto and KV. And of course you know if you want to you can use something like DOC two but of those the top for a just listen I prefer. The nice thing about being on the Mac is -- relatively limited amounts of development. And what basically -- hand brake. And yes we know hand brake also runs on windows will not talk about that right now because some days it runs well some days it doesn't but it runs like that top happy little pop. On OS-X I think we can safely say there's not one universal format that works on everything. Or we just haven't tried hard enough I particularly love -- and paid for five point one surround it and it seems to do well on my Apple TV. -- if I -- to choose. A few I choose and before with -- any statistics for and it makes. DivX because pretty much every platform -- ever seen that attached to TV plays DivX -- generally if it's in the DivX format and you you know keep it within reasonable constraints it works you don't have to think about -- statistics -- still my favorite for quality if you want to do one of those HD conversions from stage. You know quicktime trailer or something anyone and it. Available on a different format. Now there's a whole issue of -- Bob's of the files that dvds used natively on the disk. Now if you want the ability to pick different subtitles. Various audio tracks like you would on the dvd of Bob as a way to again. Now some set top boxes especially computer PCs to play -- with no issues they'll play him like dvds you can select all the pictures you can go through the evening news. And dvd rather virtual dvd on your hard drive. Now there's some other devices I think the Apple TV does that support -- I am able to play it's interesting if you want to run dvds at a library dvds and what all the extras and everything there is a script that'll work with four role on the Mac mini called dvds this I. Haven't been able to give it to run under the Apple TV as far as and you can run of the Apple TV but I'll keep experimenting with that. They're just too many competing devices yet -- coding. I mean the thing is not only the FT CPCs which really aren't an issue because again like this -- before they exit pretty much anything you could see them. But you have an Apple TVs you have your windows media Extenders you have things that the popcorn hour. You have the Western Digital lenses police like boxes and basically designed either connect to a network or an internal hard driver external hard drive or are an external hard drive. Cheaply movie formats -- without talking about the council's. Yes and you know it's one of those things that you know if you have. Five different devices that all accept various formats. You candidate either you encode for each one and that's gonna be a long time or you -- pick the LC the lowest common denominator figure out what they have all in comment. -- that format so it's like you know 640 by 480 for it. You know at W an -- hit a car but DivX file that's achieved -- so you have the convenience. And you skip on the quality but the reality is."

" Is almost anything can look good. Everything's gonna look good in the standard definition TV almost -- gonna look pretty fantastic. Want to seven when he -- smaller HDTV. And well with a 1080. Its start did you that's where dvd starts this sort of the vehicle canisters to fall apart if you're scale and what is a relatively small image to lead here -- us. It's just. It's time now for Netflix sponsored movie of the week this -- film is video realm of the cult classic David -- verbal spoke shock an amazing view it focuses on the world of Macs ran an operator of the local UHF channel. There's never ending quest to find the broadcast audience going content on its channel he stumbles across -- sadistic video clip called video thorough. As insurgents for the source of leaving behind video through max's drawn into -- a real world where hallucinations and reality merge featuring Deborah Harry that would be you can figure Blondie. And it goes during world video -- combines the familiar world of TV and blends it into an unbelievable and twisted world violence and sadism sound like fun well of -- a cult films or the disturbing market Cronin bird. You should definitely drop this woman and Netflix queue today. -- Netflix don't forget to check out the other nineteen million titles Netflix has to offer including bold -- yet. More Blu-ray titles you confide in your local video store you're bound to find any -- you're looking for with forty shipping centers almost all -- happen in a single business day shipping both ways. Read now if you're an Xbox live gold member you can now receive Netflix on demand viewing right on your Xbox 360. No -- no mailbox you movies instantly streamed over your broadband connection directly to your Xbox 360 plans start at four dollars and 99 cents. But you watch -- so we -- deal for a free trial if you sign up today at www. Netflix dot com slash system please support system by supporting our sponsors."

" Our video encoding is one of the places where people get their mirrored on in a way -- you pretty much don't see anywhere else on the planet except maybe. Watching David make light -- have carefully ordered parts from 1940s your cameras. Look people spent hundreds of hours of their lives experimenting with the video codec to use the bit rate. -- these accounts that are variable just playing around with every single aspect -- have a C and a DD interlaced -- view that's what type of peer relations what you do you probably don't get. What we're gonna do is just simply walk through our favorite way to use our favorite programs to get dvd movies and put them on our network basically the encoding we like can we use. If you think we're fools and morons because we don't use your setting that's awesome save your settings in the us and we'll probably talk about that."

" On the show in the future. According to PC yes so before you know first thing you need to do before you actually start any of the encoding is moderate the desk. Now my favorite tool that is old standby dvd -- hasn't really been updated in the past 34 years still works very very well. The interface is really -- simple as long as you make sure that you have the mode. Set to ice. And then read it will read the disk and help put an ISO image that if you want it's. You were better off doing any -- And then you'll actually list -- the files directly instead of creating a disk image what I have here is the folder called files and just ripped off this disk. And as you notice there's quite a few number of -- in this case six. Now depending on the movies sometimes you might want to get rid of the few of these because there might be either an excuse digital ones are the main feature. Or there's things like the opening screen of the menu screen that has a looping video you don't need that you just want the movie. You're gonna have to pick through and kind of stereo what you want. That it starts the encoding process and using a tool called on MTV and KB is a container format. As we talked about -- very popular with people who lake. Putting TV shows up because that was to do a few things. That you normally could do like he subtitles if you're doing animate. Various formats and surround sound so that's you know mpeg four and support surrounds and you can put in this container. When I'm gonna do is essentially split the -- first file that I see as an iPhoto breaker -- DTS underscores your 1 iPhone and that essentially does the entire disk. That is the menu that is the video files that's all the soundtracks whether it's in Spanish English surround. Expected output folder on the leave it where it is right now. Was slick and audio track -- you can see there's you know as eighty question my question mark has crucial question mark because. So unfamiliar with the format that basically just to channel dolby digital. It's like. Now he's -- works we've stereo. Sub title track. I can rip also Spitzer really are no subtitles in this movie so on the leave it alone. Besides filters generally bone stock. And the -- actually it -- TV but if file want to do for eighth -- from that doesn't accept it -- Xbox up I have to do an MP four. And I can check all profiles that the states actually can select here at the bottom and Xbox cuts him off script that has all the pre sets for it. Now that said if you want to be a little fancy want to go tweak U wanna click the advanced settings and you can start tweaking things like literally SD interlaced. I am going to save progressives."

" to. -- you know due August except remember. Modest size manual drop down menu crop being -- want to do is. You get a movie that might be of how this for some and you have border issues or you wanna -- on the -- make a little neater. You can't that you have to know how much you wanna crop five -- kind of you've you do have the option of previewing. Chapter ending going to go going through it and looking at it it's gonna take a minute for it to buffer here. So if you -- that there's lots of my computer. Global languages English aspect ratio this aspect ratios are very important. If you had eight and a morphing disk that is to say if you put minute dvd player on an up scaling dvd player and it's. Fulton pools and wide on an HDTV looks fine it's a sixteen by nine aspect ratio movie. But to fit on -- dvd it's been squeezed or compressed. Bird girl horizontally in order to fit of the 720 by for the aspect ratio. So if you want to encode it out into a native format that's widescreen you have to take that into account. And so it would be like you know you can transfer it -- 1280 by 720. Board you can in this case you can slip and -- more for encoding and it would do the rest for you that this movie was nine and marketing coded -- just -- besides and they. Rendered it. Recipes and leave them alone. Now the thing about -- and TV in a few of the tools. -- if it auto accordion not is that they're actually front ends for a few other applications they're not just application by itself. So when they run they'll pull up different applications musical -- I would I come from that's actually the application. Its front and pulling in the additional applications is tied to. So once that's set all have to do is start coding now people may it might be asking about. It great how big do I want. Depending on how big the -- big of a file you want or how long you want to encode features a smaller bit rates say something around 500 KB PS. They can take anywhere from one to two hours -- have you know moderately sized file if size is no object you can go all the way. So what's it's done just click the start encoding and it's taken a minute and then it's gonna start -- on that file. Not gonna show you an auto accordion not to look simpler in that many ways it's a lot more straightforward and Otto and TV actually suggest you use this first. If you want to use it on -- simplified format you're not too choosy about the different pharmacies it. Auto Gordy and that's great for doing XP and DivX specifically DivX. So. Again and the just choose where it's gonna go. Pick a location. Now unlike I don't KV VE GT agency. Allows me dislike either priest has pre defined size so if I wanted to fit -- quarter of the dvd for the media or not pregnant just. Do Atari quality percentage this case they can do. -- they don't want it to be 50% of the quality looks at five. But it's -- struck. Screw up to fifty. NASA's again this movie has no sub title track if you did this sub title would appear right here night it's like or dislike that. Now I can do advanced settings and choose DivX. And maximum it right here height create a financial went to be 1280 because 128720. Ideally you want it to be. As -- as possible for an animal perfect movie since it's not gonna choose auto within mostly definitely. If I had surround sound I was leave it on the original which would include -- three -- you -- DTS track and it would encode that with it but since they don't -- on them. -- I want to I can even do you DDR variable bit rate. Or CBO constant bit rate. The trade off is sometimes that that variable bit rate kind of -- gates the -- a little bit and you can kind of notice it as you listen typically if I don't want the audio to be. Two adulterated typically use CBR and then select a bit rate typically. I would use 192 and outlook. It click okay. And if I want to I can click and preview -- in this case -- click -- job. And then I can just gets -- and it will start chugging along. That's pretty much it if you want to get going on years encoding process you leave alone and that's gonna take you know depending how big the movie is. How much of an encoding. Squeeze you put on it you can -- take note a couple of hours to 456. Hours. Now if you want to be would again if you want to leave me be really kind of involved any want to be able -- the resolution size. Auto MTV's the way to go but it's a little clunky interfaces. Not as refined. As the one for a EGK. But you do get -- more options -- of that. Right so now I have my finished files and as you can see here on the screen my NKV this is what they did wouldn't. And the auto and TV. Decoder. And this is the final finished product or rather the last section of this movie with camera flying away. It was a it was a public. There's a public domain movie. Any case it works really well of course of course you the -- movie got clipped off as you can see here. You know it's a file size is now seventy and I can sit down on the thumb drive I can drop in on mine Xbox it will play no problem. -- right now in PLC. And the quality looks pretty close to the original -- not -- bring up that file right now. -- So this is the this is the Bob file this of the original disk. File that it came from -- to -- there really isn't too much if any qualitative difference of course it helps that the movie is. Then she recorded off a projector screen but you know edit. You can't really went with camera. --"

" Takes lot of computer powered encode video quickly and you who's got a lot of computer power on tap. The united states air force."

" Whenever first classes online and I ask this proposal practice what that means is a nonsense mechanic and air force -- outside the engine up."

" Six. Let's talk about using hand brake on OS-X Hamburg to pretty equal application of all places started on the POS is available in Linux and windows versions and I believe solaris. It is a pretty slick tool up to a point that point is that the people who developed hand brake are more interested in encoding. Working and also has a different encoding and trans -- off different video formats and not very interested in all dealing with say the latest copy protection placed on a disk. And you might rid of that especially if you're big fan of police action movies addicts are expected to sell the zillions of dvds because movie companies spend a lot of time. Employing people that do things that make programs like this crash. What's the solution using dvd ripping tool. And then access that ripped dvd once it's on your hard drive inside of hand brake. What do tools like that most the ones I can think of that are really cool or on the PC project talked about on -- dvd is one of my personal favorites. I use -- on the PC all the time and it is going to go to an annual subscription fee because they are constantly doing updates. At the end of 2008 -- big in about by and it. By now now let's take a look at -- this is gonna be fast folks wouldn't be OS-X version of it right here. Can we have it up in place you're gonna start with the source he. In this case going to pick or dvd here. And we're gonna hit open what we do that it's gonna start scanning the dvd. That's gonna take a couple minutes is it basically figures out what is in place on the dvd -- can have access to. Once then scanning the dvd and it's gonna give you my."

" You information about the movie entitled chapters how long we are a number of chapters you can select. And we're gonna go to this button appear in the corner call toggle -- it is your friend in my case it is totally my friend because I can either run Apple TV. Which is set up optimize for the Apple TV or the universal version which is designed to play on pretty much anything. That is Apple out there whether it's an iPod and iPhone and Apple TV or your favorite Mac. Computer they also have some pretty good profiles that are pre configured for the PSP. In the MPS three Xbox 360 but basically pick the one you're gonna use. Now if you take a look at down here you can add additional support optimize for the -- don't touch that -- can be useful to you. The video basically if you use the preset don't change these. You can play around if you don't savvy do the video that maybe there's here lacing artifacts in there you're gonna hit the picture setting button and you can. Play around with tell us and they -- the what's it clicked in our video settings and again if you do this I highly recommend just going straight with one good pre -- that somebody else is figured out for you. Audio and subtitles I always and in the English subtitles because I'm constantly watching movies with the sound down -- not we got the baby. The chapters latest basically take a little the chapter markers are. And everytime I play around with advanced and make things look worse than they started as so we'll go straight back to video and hit start and you are ready to roll."

" Now if you start the video. In that application -- immediately crashes or get like ten minutes into it any crashes chances are you've run into -- fabulous. Copy protection on the dvd if you rip history from the dvd. And you need to find a third party product to rip the content off the dvd on your hard drive that you should be just fine. Grabbing him in encoding is your preferred format inside of him break."

" Yeah now if you want to you can actually take an old PC it has a dvd rom drive in it and you can use something like dvds that HD which history. Or dvd -- to rip the disk right or all of that on yeah I love -- he Puerto -- work do you could do it on that machine take other files that you know show on the hard drive and then just transfer it over cute. You're more modern machine my case you know I have the PC and Mac and they're both of equal. No power so I do it I can do it on either -- should do and at -- because it's a Quad Core social class of them and notebook -- on national public. In the tools are there. Speaking of faster yes there is basically one way to encode video faster. A faster processor. And more colds or cool. Course core CDs course if you don't it's funny people say like what about you know -- it and the new Nvidia you know honestly to get. You know people creating general processing applications like medium -- for that are -- process. There's a few of them out there none of them have the amount of depth or the flexibility that of the tools that we -- you today. So you can get those and they will encode a single format in the limited. You know range which is great if going UG GP that way. But you know if it comes out doing incredibly if it's the right if it's the right particular. You know the combination of like media encoding for that particular application your graphics card may do a ridiculously. Fast job of encoding is just the most the tools we've been using. Don't take again -- of that graphics -- GPU horsepower so and you you know if he if you got a quad you -- running dual core and you want to pop in a fast process you know. Quad -- here actually 300 bucks for it to less than that oh -- I don't Verizon private restaurant to -- the -- Could just let -- say on January will be the last. Let's just say that -- CP user dropping into the point that you know if you're doing this for -- being. It's it's not beyond reason god of greatest -- living here now watching this program actually want to do a couple hundred of these dvds. And you've been thinking about upgrading your new machine this is a great excuse for upgrading to a faster processor a new machine because this is one of the areas where you simply cannot throw enough processor. Or more and of course that's CNN you know some of these tools scale well especially the the windows ones I was sure enough they really -- only course -- All -- go straight 200% I leave it there cried for hours -- of them you know I checked to see a file works out okay go back to sleep. We didn't talk much if at all about commercial applications beyond one -- two of our personal -- if you have a favorite commercial application that you think we should be using the network -- to be playing with his open source stuff. As always ideas thomas' suggestions email us system it was and three dot com. And you know -- you know online there stuff plenty of forums both a dvd help dot com and of course they a couple of sites with the other hand -- not liberals actually worry when you go to download -- the -- there they have amazing advice especially of people who -- tweak the -- he's the ultimate video quality -- the ultimate quality versus the tiniest -- And as always you can hang out there are forms of his three dot com slash forum. Where -- people final episode the system out our side that the -- has a revision to dot com slash system. I'm Patrick Norton is not rocket tank we'll see you next week."

" War."

" This episode of system has brought you by. Netflix. Go to dot com. And the united states air force. Winner which means it's cold even here in San Francisco service developed a nice habit. Hopefully dvds off the shelves what are these few things haven't common getting your dvd collection off the shelves and into a video jukebox. How to rip encode movies you can watch it anywhere in the house without having to get out from under the comforter. On this episode of system."

" Well the system I'm Patrick Norton and I Roger -- David -- is currently on assignment making a light Saber. Actually making a lot of once it actually he's made a lot of light sabers. And now it's actually to be really cool when we do it on the show but for now branching to be talking about dvds. In this case something here. Son uses this for his -- he he -- of of the chair. He grabs dvds off the shelf and iphones over shoulders then picks the Chinese box that's the most he's really they -- store or like -- Open the box it's -- wander around the house dvds which means going to have a whole bunch of scratched dvds. Like I've ever had before actually have enough pictures of him doing this but he yes. He should put on his first website. This. Is scary thought. I also restore our desire to get all my movies off the shelves then we're video jukebox -- this episode it's all by having a couple of hundred movies I don't available at home theatre PC and media center or an Apple -- video jukebox show we're gonna show you how to take it dvd. Yes any dvd and essentially written the contents in re encoded for letter format. Your Apple TV your set top box stress -- sixty or even PS3. We'll need to play it on your big shiny HDTV yes then another episode following shortly well actually talk about the video jukebox and certainly the video throughout your house or whatever devices you want. Rogers -- on the PC router on going to be on the Apple over. Ripping is the fine art of getting the content off the disk it on your PC please don't encode movies in girl would appear darker side on the web it's sleazy. We figure though if you all the movies you should be able enjoyable whichever platform -- like which so movie companies feel as sleazy as a violation of the DM CA which technically of this copy protection movie it's definitely a violation of the MCA that applies American citizens just. Do us a favor don't pirate but don't make back up copies of movies don't all. Now one of the things that I've notes especially if your guess is they're all kind of scratch beneath -- it -- especially one that runs perpendicular to the radius of the disc you run the risk of not being able to read the data on the disk underneath that scratch. It's equivalent to skip or jump on record -- basically means you're gonna have nastiness we should have beautiful video and audio."

" Now the best way to remove scratches it is to use a light abrasive usually and they kind of nice solution typically used baking soda toothpaste. I'm not only is it great and keep it works wonders for your -- CDs and dvds. And essentially what you want to do is take a little bit onto the disk in when he grabs the cloth. You do not want a -- wonder rub it the way you list healthy is -- yes. So from the center of the disk out and ideally in one direction only not -- and yet --"

" Basically. Little bit of indictments -- or baking soda at Wimbledon the toothpaste. I have a fancy CD clear now ever since the epic CD crash in my now references to express is all 100 -- Richard you know put your CD. Jukebox wall fading picture you screwed into the wall so there's an earthquake just fall over."

" Or you know kids priority one thing to consider before you start seeing coding process is kind of put the the original source material it source material. Is it television show is of the movie is that a documentary. Reasons this. TV shows typically are interlaced and I don't want to build a one X. Long explanation Wikipedia has agreed explanation of what year is as yet just -- lacing as yet just Wikipedia interlaced and you get. Everything you ever wanted to know and not know about entirely -- because that will determine. Any kind of stuff pre processing you will need to do with the video before you start encoding because the final product should be a progressive source. Since you are play it on. A set top box a device which are pretty much all computers."

" If you find yourself you know copying with -- you're sort of all of your settings right you're encoding tool you're happy everything's going along great -- is -- it looks like. Awful -- but awful much better word yet and it didn't. You can start experimenting with the encoding and great way to do that is picked up chapter of the movie that looks particularly ugly. And experiment with just that chapter that way you're encoding -- putting three minutes of the movie instead of the entire movie and you can experiment with several different combinations of settings for like fifteen minutes. Instead of several different combinations of settings -- fifteen hours is your encoding entire movie and he speaks from experience because. It -- believe this this they would like."

" we didn't have to waste an hour and a half. But there's also something else copy protection most of the copy protection on discs you're not going to notice it's basically. Thanks to the efforts of some of our favorite hackers. Nobody really notices the copy protection -- place on those disks however certainly movie production houses and taking it upon themselves do you have scores of engineers figuring out new and exciting ways to me dvd -- run any traditional dvd player. That will however cause computer programs designed to rip and encode dvds to crash or simply not copy the movie or not -- the data. We'll talk more about how to deal that form of copy protection later again one last time please don't pirate movies please don't -- on peer to peer sites please. Copy and make copies or make copies for use of your own home network and portable devices and not for everybody in the planet I think -- and that's all we're talk about on the."

" So this. The thick -- one of the company that helps -- system you it to godaddy.com. If you want to make an impact on -- dot com has what you need the lesson five bucks in my -- web hosting for good at a dot com -- valued what I was an up I'm 24 sevenths support and read. Access to go getting hosting connected that'd be pleased to quickly fell with 53 applications. And applications you'll love word press you would Drupal OS commerce in quite a few more. You're -- system. Your friend of ours we got a hook up -- an Archos six team that's thats what -- asked to with a -- Apple's score additional five bucks off in the order of thirty dollars or more. Some restrictions applied please keep your daddy dot com for details and listen to over your system. Help us help you. -- get your PC Internet and did it dot com so this. Stuff."

" You're lucky enough to own a PC you have you know go literally. -- and Ireland a metric ton of tools available for you. For me I preferred dvd to creditors dvd -- HD. Auto Gordy and not an auto and KV. And of course you know if you want to you can use something like DOC two but of those the top for a just listen I prefer. The nice thing about being on the Mac is -- relatively limited amounts of development. And what basically -- hand brake. And yes we know hand brake also runs on windows will not talk about that right now because some days it runs well some days it doesn't but it runs like that top happy little pop. On OS-X I think we can safely say there's not one universal format that works on everything. Or we just haven't tried hard enough I particularly love -- and paid for five point one surround it and it seems to do well on my Apple TV. -- if I -- to choose. A few I choose and before with -- any statistics for and it makes. DivX because pretty much every platform -- ever seen that attached to TV plays DivX -- generally if it's in the DivX format and you you know keep it within reasonable constraints it works you don't have to think about -- statistics -- still my favorite for quality if you want to do one of those HD conversions from stage. You know quicktime trailer or something anyone and it. Available on a different format. Now there's a whole issue of -- Bob's of the files that dvds used natively on the disk. Now if you want the ability to pick different subtitles. Various audio tracks like you would on the dvd of Bob as a way to again. Now some set top boxes especially computer PCs to play -- with no issues they'll play him like dvds you can select all the pictures you can go through the evening news. And dvd rather virtual dvd on your hard drive. Now there's some other devices I think the Apple TV does that support -- I am able to play it's interesting if you want to run dvds at a library dvds and what all the extras and everything there is a script that'll work with four role on the Mac mini called dvds this I. Haven't been able to give it to run under the Apple TV as far as and you can run of the Apple TV but I'll keep experimenting with that. They're just too many competing devices yet -- coding. I mean the thing is not only the FT CPCs which really aren't an issue because again like this -- before they exit pretty much anything you could see them. But you have an Apple TVs you have your windows media Extenders you have things that the popcorn hour. You have the Western Digital lenses police like boxes and basically designed either connect to a network or an internal hard driver external hard drive or are an external hard drive. Cheaply movie formats -- without talking about the council's. Yes and you know it's one of those things that you know if you have. Five different devices that all accept various formats. You candidate either you encode for each one and that's gonna be a long time or you -- pick the LC the lowest common denominator figure out what they have all in comment. -- that format so it's like you know 640 by 480 for it. You know at W an -- hit a car but DivX file that's achieved -- so you have the convenience. And you skip on the quality but the reality is."

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" Our video encoding is one of the places where people get their mirrored on in a way -- you pretty much don't see anywhere else on the planet except maybe. Watching David make light -- have carefully ordered parts from 1940s your cameras. Look people spent hundreds of hours of their lives experimenting with the video codec to use the bit rate. -- these accounts that are variable just playing around with every single aspect -- have a C and a DD interlaced -- view that's what type of peer relations what you do you probably don't get. What we're gonna do is just simply walk through our favorite way to use our favorite programs to get dvd movies and put them on our network basically the encoding we like can we use. If you think we're fools and morons because we don't use your setting that's awesome save your settings in the us and we'll probably talk about that."

" On the show in the future. According to PC yes so before you know first thing you need to do before you actually start any of the encoding is moderate the desk. Now my favorite tool that is old standby dvd -- hasn't really been updated in the past 34 years still works very very well. The interface is really -- simple as long as you make sure that you have the mode. Set to ice. And then read it will read the disk and help put an ISO image that if you want it's. You were better off doing any -- And then you'll actually list -- the files directly instead of creating a disk image what I have here is the folder called files and just ripped off this disk. And as you notice there's quite a few number of -- in this case six. Now depending on the movies sometimes you might want to get rid of the few of these because there might be either an excuse digital ones are the main feature. Or there's things like the opening screen of the menu screen that has a looping video you don't need that you just want the movie. You're gonna have to pick through and kind of stereo what you want. That it starts the encoding process and using a tool called on MTV and KB is a container format. As we talked about -- very popular with people who lake. Putting TV shows up because that was to do a few things. That you normally could do like he subtitles if you're doing animate. Various formats and surround sound so that's you know mpeg four and support surrounds and you can put in this container. When I'm gonna do is essentially split the -- first file that I see as an iPhoto breaker -- DTS underscores your 1 iPhone and that essentially does the entire disk. That is the menu that is the video files that's all the soundtracks whether it's in Spanish English surround. Expected output folder on the leave it where it is right now. Was slick and audio track -- you can see there's you know as eighty question my question mark has crucial question mark because. So unfamiliar with the format that basically just to channel dolby digital. It's like. Now he's -- works we've stereo. Sub title track. I can rip also Spitzer really are no subtitles in this movie so on the leave it alone. Besides filters generally bone stock. And the -- actually it -- TV but if file want to do for eighth -- from that doesn't accept it -- Xbox up I have to do an MP four. And I can check all profiles that the states actually can select here at the bottom and Xbox cuts him off script that has all the pre sets for it. Now that said if you want to be a little fancy want to go tweak U wanna click the advanced settings and you can start tweaking things like literally SD interlaced. I am going to save progressives."

" to. -- you know due August except remember. Modest size manual drop down menu crop being -- want to do is. You get a movie that might be of how this for some and you have border issues or you wanna -- on the -- make a little neater. You can't that you have to know how much you wanna crop five -- kind of you've you do have the option of previewing. Chapter ending going to go going through it and looking at it it's gonna take a minute for it to buffer here. So if you -- that there's lots of my computer. Global languages English aspect ratio this aspect ratios are very important. If you had eight and a morphing disk that is to say if you put minute dvd player on an up scaling dvd player and it's. Fulton pools and wide on an HDTV looks fine it's a sixteen by nine aspect ratio movie. But to fit on -- dvd it's been squeezed or compressed. Bird girl horizontally in order to fit of the 720 by for the aspect ratio. So if you want to encode it out into a native format that's widescreen you have to take that into account. And so it would be like you know you can transfer it -- 1280 by 720. Board you can in this case you can slip and -- more for encoding and it would do the rest for you that this movie was nine and marketing coded -- just -- besides and they. Rendered it. Recipes and leave them alone. Now the thing about -- and TV in a few of the tools. -- if it auto accordion not is that they're actually front ends for a few other applications they're not just application by itself. So when they run they'll pull up different applications musical -- I would I come from that's actually the application. Its front and pulling in the additional applications is tied to. So once that's set all have to do is start coding now people may it might be asking about. It great how big do I want. Depending on how big the -- big of a file you want or how long you want to encode features a smaller bit rates say something around 500 KB PS. They can take anywhere from one to two hours -- have you know moderately sized file if size is no object you can go all the way. So what's it's done just click the start encoding and it's taken a minute and then it's gonna start -- on that file. Not gonna show you an auto accordion not to look simpler in that many ways it's a lot more straightforward and Otto and TV actually suggest you use this first. If you want to use it on -- simplified format you're not too choosy about the different pharmacies it. Auto Gordy and that's great for doing XP and DivX specifically DivX. So. Again and the just choose where it's gonna go. Pick a location. Now unlike I don't KV VE GT agency. Allows me dislike either priest has pre defined size so if I wanted to fit -- quarter of the dvd for the media or not pregnant just. Do Atari quality percentage this case they can do. -- they don't want it to be 50% of the quality looks at five. But it's -- struck. Screw up to fifty. NASA's again this movie has no sub title track if you did this sub title would appear right here night it's like or dislike that. Now I can do advanced settings and choose DivX. And maximum it right here height create a financial went to be 1280 because 128720. Ideally you want it to be. As -- as possible for an animal perfect movie since it's not gonna choose auto within mostly definitely. If I had surround sound I was leave it on the original which would include -- three -- you -- DTS track and it would encode that with it but since they don't -- on them. -- I want to I can even do you DDR variable bit rate. Or CBO constant bit rate. The trade off is sometimes that that variable bit rate kind of -- gates the -- a little bit and you can kind of notice it as you listen typically if I don't want the audio to be. Two adulterated typically use CBR and then select a bit rate typically. I would use 192 and outlook. It click okay. And if I want to I can click and preview -- in this case -- click -- job. And then I can just gets -- and it will start chugging along. That's pretty much it if you want to get going on years encoding process you leave alone and that's gonna take you know depending how big the movie is. How much of an encoding. Squeeze you put on it you can -- take note a couple of hours to 456. Hours. Now if you want to be would again if you want to leave me be really kind of involved any want to be able -- the resolution size. Auto MTV's the way to go but it's a little clunky interfaces. Not as refined. As the one for a EGK. But you do get -- more options -- of that. Right so now I have my finished files and as you can see here on the screen my NKV this is what they did wouldn't. And the auto and TV. Decoder. And this is the final finished product or rather the last section of this movie with camera flying away. It was a it was a public. There's a public domain movie. Any case it works really well of course of course you the -- movie got clipped off as you can see here. You know it's a file size is now seventy and I can sit down on the thumb drive I can drop in on mine Xbox it will play no problem. -- right now in PLC. And the quality looks pretty close to the original -- not -- bring up that file right now. -- So this is the this is the Bob file this of the original disk. File that it came from -- to -- there really isn't too much if any qualitative difference of course it helps that the movie is. Then she recorded off a projector screen but you know edit. You can't really went with camera. --"

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" Six. Let's talk about using hand brake on OS-X Hamburg to pretty equal application of all places started on the POS is available in Linux and windows versions and I believe solaris. It is a pretty slick tool up to a point that point is that the people who developed hand brake are more interested in encoding. Working and also has a different encoding and trans -- off different video formats and not very interested in all dealing with say the latest copy protection placed on a disk. And you might rid of that especially if you're big fan of police action movies addicts are expected to sell the zillions of dvds because movie companies spend a lot of time. Employing people that do things that make programs like this crash. What's the solution using dvd ripping tool. And then access that ripped dvd once it's on your hard drive inside of hand brake. What do tools like that most the ones I can think of that are really cool or on the PC project talked about on -- dvd is one of my personal favorites. I use -- on the PC all the time and it is going to go to an annual subscription fee because they are constantly doing updates. At the end of 2008 -- big in about by and it. By now now let's take a look at -- this is gonna be fast folks wouldn't be OS-X version of it right here. Can we have it up in place you're gonna start with the source he. In this case going to pick or dvd here. And we're gonna hit open what we do that it's gonna start scanning the dvd. That's gonna take a couple minutes is it basically figures out what is in place on the dvd -- can have access to. Once then scanning the dvd and it's gonna give you my."

" You information about the movie entitled chapters how long we are a number of chapters you can select. And we're gonna go to this button appear in the corner call toggle -- it is your friend in my case it is totally my friend because I can either run Apple TV. Which is set up optimize for the Apple TV or the universal version which is designed to play on pretty much anything. That is Apple out there whether it's an iPod and iPhone and Apple TV or your favorite Mac. Computer they also have some pretty good profiles that are pre configured for the PSP. In the MPS three Xbox 360 but basically pick the one you're gonna use. Now if you take a look at down here you can add additional support optimize for the -- don't touch that -- can be useful to you. The video basically if you use the preset don't change these. You can play around if you don't savvy do the video that maybe there's here lacing artifacts in there you're gonna hit the picture setting button and you can. Play around with tell us and they -- the what's it clicked in our video settings and again if you do this I highly recommend just going straight with one good pre -- that somebody else is figured out for you. Audio and subtitles I always and in the English subtitles because I'm constantly watching movies with the sound down -- not we got the baby. The chapters latest basically take a little the chapter markers are. And everytime I play around with advanced and make things look worse than they started as so we'll go straight back to video and hit start and you are ready to roll."

" Now if you start the video. In that application -- immediately crashes or get like ten minutes into it any crashes chances are you've run into -- fabulous. Copy protection on the dvd if you rip history from the dvd. And you need to find a third party product to rip the content off the dvd on your hard drive that you should be just fine. Grabbing him in encoding is your preferred format inside of him break."

" Yeah now if you want to you can actually take an old PC it has a dvd rom drive in it and you can use something like dvds that HD which history. Or dvd -- to rip the disk right or all of that on yeah I love -- he Puerto -- work do you could do it on that machine take other files that you know show on the hard drive and then just transfer it over cute. You're more modern machine my case you know I have the PC and Mac and they're both of equal. No power so I do it I can do it on either -- should do and at -- because it's a Quad Core social class of them and notebook -- on national public. In the tools are there. Speaking of faster yes there is basically one way to encode video faster. A faster processor. And more colds or cool. Course core CDs course if you don't it's funny people say like what about you know -- it and the new Nvidia you know honestly to get. You know people creating general processing applications like medium -- for that are -- process. There's a few of them out there none of them have the amount of depth or the flexibility that of the tools that we -- you today. So you can get those and they will encode a single format in the limited. You know range which is great if going UG GP that way. But you know if it comes out doing incredibly if it's the right if it's the right particular. You know the combination of like media encoding for that particular application your graphics card may do a ridiculously. Fast job of encoding is just the most the tools we've been using. Don't take again -- of that graphics -- GPU horsepower so and you you know if he if you got a quad you -- running dual core and you want to pop in a fast process you know. Quad -- here actually 300 bucks for it to less than that oh -- I don't Verizon private restaurant to -- the -- Could just let -- say on January will be the last. Let's just say that -- CP user dropping into the point that you know if you're doing this for -- being. It's it's not beyond reason god of greatest -- living here now watching this program actually want to do a couple hundred of these dvds. And you've been thinking about upgrading your new machine this is a great excuse for upgrading to a faster processor a new machine because this is one of the areas where you simply cannot throw enough processor. Or more and of course that's CNN you know some of these tools scale well especially the the windows ones I was sure enough they really -- only course -- All -- go straight 200% I leave it there cried for hours -- of them you know I checked to see a file works out okay go back to sleep. We didn't talk much if at all about commercial applications beyond one -- two of our personal -- if you have a favorite commercial application that you think we should be using the network -- to be playing with his open source stuff. As always ideas thomas' suggestions email us system it was and three dot com. And you know -- you know online there stuff plenty of forums both a dvd help dot com and of course they a couple of sites with the other hand -- not liberals actually worry when you go to download -- the -- there they have amazing advice especially of people who -- tweak the -- he's the ultimate video quality -- the ultimate quality versus the tiniest -- And as always you can hang out there are forms of his three dot com slash forum. Where -- people final episode the system out our side that the -- has a revision to dot com slash system. I'm Patrick Norton is not rocket tank we'll see you next week."