DVD Catalyst

[dvdcatalyst]

Running DVD Catalyst 4 on my wifes laptop (Dual Core 2.Ghz) and it rips them quite nice at around 25 minutes. I am using the Zune 30 HQ setting and resolution looks good at 320x240 on the initial onset. After it does the pre scan it the converts its at 320x194. Any way to change the resolution back to 320x240 so I can have the full screen on the Zune? Ripping movies onto there for the kids for a 6 hour plain ride to Florida and they will be sharing it, so every pixel is going to count

Hi Anomander,

Thank you for using DVD Catalyst.

More information in the "black bar" link in my signature, but basically all you need to do is to set cropping to "remove from device"
By default, DVD Catalyst 4 strips black borders from the video, but leaves the video portion unmodified. Because most movies do not have the same screen aspect, when you play the file on your device, you usually end up with black borders added by the player. By changing the black-bar removal option to "remove from device" it will remove the borders from the actual video, and then adjusts the sides of the video (cuts them off) to make it full-screen (320x240 in your case) for playback on the device.

.

[Anomander]

Running DVD Catalyst 4 on my wifes laptop (Dual Core 2.Ghz) and it rips them quite nice at around 25 minutes. I am using the Zune 30 HQ setting and resolution looks good at 320x240 on the initial onset. After it does the pre scan it the converts its at 320x194. Any way to change the resolution back to 320x240 so I can have the full screen on the Zune? Ripping movies onto there for the kids for a 6 hour plain ride to Florida and they will be sharing it, so every pixel is going to count

Hi Anomander,

Thank you for using DVD Catalyst.

More information in the "black bar" link in my signature, but basically all you need to do is to set cropping to "remove from device"
By default, DVD Catalyst 4 strips black borders from the video, but leaves the video portion unmodified. Because most movies do not have the same screen aspect, when you play the file on your device, you usually end up with black borders added by the player. By changing the black-bar removal option to "remove from device" it will remove the borders from the actual video, and then adjusts the sides of the video (cuts them off) to make it full-screen (320x240 in your case) for playback on the device.

.

Thanks for that information. I guess I will go rerip some movies now =)

[dvdcatalyst]

You are welcome,

It should be pretty quick. The Zune 30 HQ format runs at almost 6x realtime on my dual-core. The smaller screensize combined with the wmv video format makes it fly

.

[Anomander]

You are welcome,

It should be pretty quick. The Zune 30 HQ format runs at almost 6x realtime on my dual-core. The smaller screensize combined with the wmv video format makes it fly

.

Yea. I am not happy since my Desktop is an ancient P4 and my wifes Laptop does it considerable quicker. I want an upgrade, but still deciding on a laptop or new desktop. We like to take pictures and shoot in Raw with our Nikon D80 so I really need something that can power Lightoom 3 for picture editing. With a laptop I can edit while I am away from town which is nice.

[dvdcatalyst]

The Zune30 conversions shouldn't be too slow on your P4. H264/Droid ones probably will be though.

I prefer laptops myself. Asus has some good-priced ones that have great specs for things like Lightroom and Photoshop. With most laptops on the market, the specs are good enough for that, but the first 2 things to do is to remove the bloatware on the system (when I bought my Dell e1705 laptop 4 years ago, it came with 2GB and XP, but after first-boot, it was already using the swapfile) and for raw pics, of course max-out the memory. You probably want to go for 64bit so you can use more than 4GB.

edit: conversion to Zune30 HQ is running at 6.20x atm

[ibsys2562]

Boy are we spoiled these days... I remember ripping DVDs as an 8 hour event on my 700Mhz PIII to divx and rmv9 because Xvid wasn't up to snuff. Now we complain about about 30 minutes to rip to beautiful h264! Haha, how fast things change and how soon we forget!

haha, yes... 8 hr rips... mine were longer, from what i recall.. leave it on overnight, and half the time there was an error halfway through...

but boy it was worth ripping Godzilla!