Uses other than DVD movies?

Discussion in 'ratDVD discussion, help and suggestions' started by smfsmusic, Jun 8, 2005.

  1. smfsmusic

    smfsmusic Guest

    I 'm fairly sure the answer to my questoin is no, but I figured I would ask anyway. Is there a way to use ratDVD to compress DVDs that contain data other than video? For example, could it be used on a PS2 DVD game? or a DVD MP3 disc? The PS2 game compression would be great. I could save all my games on a hard drive and burn a new copy quickly if other backups got damaged.
     
  2. A.Petrov

    A.Petrov Member

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    Answer is actually NO ;)
    RatDVD is the tool for Video-Compression, and this is LOSSY compression, quality is really high, but not the same as original! So it's useless for "data-compression" (i.e. DVD Games). Possibly such tool as "Alcohol 120%" will help you: it supports making images of DVDs with any type of data, and even compress it (but not more than any usual data-archivators): http://www.alcohol-software.com/
     
  3. smfsmusic

    smfsmusic Guest

    Thanks man! I was just wondering if data could be compressed like video files. I would like to keep a copy of all my backups on my external hard drive for future use instead of going back to the original. Right now I have approx. 30 games on it, but 21 of the original game discs were stolen out of my car when at school. So I need to keep all my backups around if my backup discs get dammaged.
     
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    best idea is to take all your backups and crunch the HECK outta em....best program ive ran across for that so far is called 7-zip (www.7-zip.org) its a free program, and generally speaking it works better than winrar or winzip...or most any other compression program out there.
     
  5. teflonmyk

    teflonmyk Regular member

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    Wrong thread
     
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