rip dvd and stream to xbox360
 

Hi How do i rip my dvd in a format that my xbox will will play? Preferrably some free software would be nice.

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do you know what format it will play?

meanwhile there is this to 'ave a look at

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I dont know what it plays but I'll take a look through that long thread.

Re: rip dvd and stream to xbox360
 

Xboxes appear to play most formats from what I have heard.

However they will definately play avi.

Provided your DVD is decrypted you can convert it to good quality avi using Auto GK which is free software.

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I'm a cheapskate and so use free software! I have a WD TV Live streamer and rip to an ISO file using DVDShrink. I use the 're-author' function to just take the main movie.

After that, I use some software called Handbrake which will compress to an MPEG-4 format to take a movie down to 1.4GB.

Ripping only takes 15 minutes, compressing takes about an hour but I can queue all my ISO files and leave it running overnight with an automatic shutdown

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What hardware are u using to convert? i've not had a conversion take that long since i had single cores.

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Why not play the DVD in the xbox?

It will be far better quality

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Got a Vista 64 system with an Intel E8400 and 4 gigs of RAM. Both cores were going full speed. I was decrypting discs at the same time as re-endoding so that probably doesn't help!!

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That makes sense since the E8400 isn't exactly a slow CPU. Thinking about it, the time taken also depends on the size and format you are converting to. I was basing my times on a 600mb - 800mb Xvid.