Loading Dvd Movies On Laptop Notebook Question?

[Gerry290]

Hi

Can anyone give me some help or advice with this?

I am going to BKK for about 4 days, and I use my laptop for email for work, web, and also VOIP phone over it, when in hotel with good strong internet.

I have to take 5 DVDs over 1 hour each, on something I am studying and I want to load them up onto the harddrive of my laptop for the few days I am away. (see the DVD player can act up sometimes, so best if I try and load up at home. where I can deal with that better).

I want to save the say 7 hours+ of DVDs to my laptop as a temporay measure, over weekend.

If I do this, would the 5 DVDs (say 7 hour total movie time) be too much or tak up too much space on Laptop that

it will slow the machine down to be so slow it will be a pain in the butt.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 which is over 18 months old.

Thanks

Gerry

[colino]

What size hard drive do you have ?

[cooL_guY_corY]

clone dvd (slysoft) is good at ripping to VOB files. A standard commercial movie dvd could equal out too 4 gigs roughly. 1 hours should be much less then this. Also you will need an app to view .vob files. Windows media might support this, cant say for sure though, but probably.

[Gerry290]

What size hard drive do you have ?

I am now sure, how do look that up on the notebook?...apologies I am not good at the support end of computer.

I ll post it up the size, once someone can tell me where to look?

[puuchai299]

Click the my computor icon on the desktop, then look for the C drive/volume icon,with your mouse pointer over that icon,right click the mouse and then click properties,that should then show you the disc/volume size and the amount of space used and free....

[Tywais]

One way to save a lot of space is to rip the DVD to an AVI or DivX file since you are only wanting to view it locally on your computer. This will bring a 4GB DVD down to about 700-800 MBytes. There are free DVD to AVI converters available (Google).

[Gerry290]

excellent idea. I never knew about that..thanks!

[Jiu-Jitsu]

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

[Gerry290]

I got download that change DVD to AVI format.

DVDs approx 60 mins and files 200,000 - 300,000 KB AVI.

How can I reduce them down to email them to me laptop ( see DVD drive on laptop is not great. starts ands stops. ) so had to do on PC, and email over.

AVI is to big, to email, what best way to compress.

Thanks

Gerry

[cooL_guY_corY]

email isnt gonna work out. upload will be impossible. I'd either go sd card ( do you have a digi cam? ) or some other usb driven storage if your dvd drive isnt working. I have a portable hd in a small enclosure ( its a 5400 rpm laptop hd) its 120 gigs, can plus in via usb, so i can move files ezzzzzzzzzzzz

[Gerry290]

Ah ok! Thanks...shall use the Digi Cam!

cheers

Gerry