Doctor in the TViX

Jan 26, 2009 10:28

On the 16th September last year, I bought a TViX 4100 Media Player to replace the PC under the TV.
shiny, expensive, video hardware )

drwho

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vindolandia January 26 2009, 13:54:31 UTC
Gosh. Can we have an edited highlights Dr Who evening at some point?

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wimble January 26 2009, 14:18:13 UTC
Highlights? What kind of wuss are you?

Wikipedia claims the original series runs to a mere 17770 minutes. So that would be 12 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes. Non-stop.

Why would you want to edit that down? It's all fab! (Plus, on top, there are all the Blue Peter clips on how to make Dalek sandwiches).

Of course, I don't have all 12 days etc worth of footage: quite a lot hasn't been released yet (there are 16 old-school stories due out this year), plus there's the stuff that was destroyed. Damn you BBC archive!

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gaspode January 26 2009, 21:58:18 UTC
I suspect the most rational way way of copying this lot would be bring my NAS over to meet your NAS and let them spend the weekend cross procreating ...

How have you ripped the DVD's? VOB's ?

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wimble January 26 2009, 22:25:56 UTC
Yes, as VOBs. I found the options I'd got were to:
a) Rip and re-encode (which saves space, but looses quality. And space isn't really the issue).
b) Copy the entire DVD as a single .ISO file, which the TViX can play, but means the whole DVD has be treated as a single entity.
c) Extract the VOBs, which the TXiX can also play, but in theory, allows me to go through and remove all the "You wouldn't steal a HANDBAG! You wouldn't steal a CAR! Copying DVDs is THEFT!" annoyances, since these appear as individual files.

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gaspode January 26 2009, 22:43:09 UTC
Fair Nuff...

DO you have the new Who/SJA DVD's ? Or should I vob them in Return ...

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