The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

sammorris,

That's interesting! I didn't start using NTFS until long after I started ripping DVDs. How come I had no problem with files as large as 7+GB?? DVDRB/CCE has no problem with over 4GB for the output file, and reads any rip I've made, even Blood in Blood out which is a three hour flic! (looks puzzled)

Russ

 

well its running i just dont know how well..lol it takes a blue moon to defrag it, but i think thats cause its 6 years old and is on its last leg. ive tried to get my dad let me build him a new one, even had a list for him a while back but he didnt want to at the tiem. he now wants to put just a new HDD in it... thats fine but he dont know if he still has the mobo disc that came with it or not... i dont wanna even try to find all the drivers for it.
i was just curious about it being FAT32 instead of NTFS.

 

I've no idea, but hands down FAT32 can't understand a single file larger than 4GB. If you're ripping DVDs wouldn't the files come out smaller than 4 gigs?

 

that was a awsome movie...sorry had to add that.. makes me wanna try and find it..

 

I would have thought so too, you'd either have a compressed output file 2GB or smaller, or you'd have the VOBs which are a gig each.

 

if your just ripping the dvd to file.99% of the time you are ripping it size for size. if its 5.2gb long that is what the rip will be. but if you rip a larger movie and transcode it down to 4.4gb to fit on a single layer disc then there is some compression.

as Russ stated most the time(now) we rip them as actual size and run them through dvd-rebuilder to fit on a dvd5(single layer) so once done there is 3 files for it. the orignal(5.2gb) the output file(4.4gb) and a work file where it did all the reencodeing(4.4gb)

EDIT:
i just ripped a 6.8gb movie(teen titans season 3) i will run it through dvd-rebuilder with 2 passes and its requested size is a dvd5 disc(4.4gb) that will be all vob files ect. i also Ripped it as a .ISO 6.8gbs so i can uh never mind.
once i get done with the reencode with rebuilder i just burn the 4.4gb file to disc and toss out the 6.8gb from my hdd

 

creaky, cincyrob, and sammorris,

I went and looked at a rip! It sure is made up of several .99GB files. I never thought of that! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Hmm didn't know that.. might have to play with it some and learn a Little bit today.

i haven't really used dvdshrink in a year or so.other than joining 3-4 small movies for the boys to watch continuous

EDIT:
Russ. your saying when you rip something it is in 1gb files separately? guess i should look at my ripps i just did

 

Heh no problem.

 

wow learn something new every day..

i wasnt thinking of the actual vob file in itself just the file i had the rip in.
i have 5 vob files of .99gb and 1 at .347gb...more than one way of looking at everything..lol

 

I ran NTFS drives in my Linux server with read/write from them over a network no trouble at all.

 

I was just over at a friends house yesterday, and was looking at his external HDD, which is his backup drive, and which is FAT32. The backup file consisted of 5 files 4 of which were 4GB, and the final one was just over 2GB.

 

I imagine backup programs would factor in the size limitation of FAT32. Many programs however, do not.

 

Sam, about your 160GB HDD being FAT32. It's only the windows installer that wont allow partitions over 32GB. Any other software will allow you to make a bigger FAT32 partition and then you can install windows on that and have it work.

 

I'm sure they could have, that's probably what they did.

 

only thing i have that is FAT32 is my I-Pod

 

sammorris,

I always use Acronis. It's easy to use and much faster than doing it all manually. I guess that's why I never encountered the 32GB limit, as the partitions were always installed and formated before I installed XP on it! Live and learn! LOL!!

Russ