is there a DVD player (upconverting, USB, recorder) that can write movies to the External Drive?

DealsBrokeMe said:Izpoof said:ysb said:To those who own this machine:

Can it play VOB files from external hard drives?

I have an old model of this machine (5937 or something). Though it did play VOB files (from a jump drive), playback is very choppy, which could be because of the USB 1.0 interface. With USB 2.0 on this one, I hope it can play VOB files smoothly from an external hard drive.

Thanks for any info.

Why are you messing with vob files? These are pretty much regulated to a dvd and if you're going to go thru the steps of decrypting a dvd then you may as well decrypt it to an avi.
Vob files just arent your run of the mill file formats.
And if the dvd isnt encrypted then why not just use the whole dvd anyway, its not like the rest of the files are going to add much miore to the entired enchilada.

Chill dude. Lot of people love to dump their DVDs on the hard drive for ease of use, or they might have downloaded those and want to play it from the ext. hdd.

Besides if you aren't familiar with conversions, then please understand the time saved and power saved by just dumping the DVD via DVDShrink (takes about 20-25mts on my quad-core) vs converting to divx format takes about 2hrs.
Also the end result quality of DVD is way better than 1 pass divx conversion in 2hrs.

If i have about 30 different DVDs that my kids frequently use, i rather drop them on a 750GB ext. hdd (movie .vobs only) than convert everyone of them to .divx/.avi format, so they don't have to use/find the DVDs and switching a movie is very quickly and easily done via the dvd players remote.

Again, why bother with vobs, if u have the dvd then play the dvd, if ur doing dvd shrink or decrypter then convert to avi or mpeg while decrypting or shrinking for that matter which saves space instead of using full size vobs which is one of the bennies of using a divx plyer.
whatever ur doing with vobs can be done just as easily with xvid/divx plus ur savig space, so puh lease save ur rantings for those that dont know any better. dvdrhelp.com is the gospel on these matters.
Youre preaching to the choir here, so dont tell me to chill, I know what Im talking about. If a lot of people wanna do the dump then thats their perogative, it just seems redundant to do so and they are the exception rather than the rule.

BTW, if its taking u 2 hrs to convert on ur "quad core"(which is a dual core personafied) then you're doing something terribly wrong or ur multitaskin like an sob, either way it takes me about 20min for a normal 90 min dvd.

2 hours to convert on a quad core!! LMAO

Rack him, Im out

DealsBrokeMe said:huskyboy said:is there a DVD player (upconverting, USB, recorder) that can write movies to the External Drive?

You mean like TiVo?

any standalone device... that doesn't need subscription

Izpoof said:
Again, why bother with vobs, if u have the dvd then play the dvd, if ur doing dvd shrink or decrypter then convert to avi or mpeg while decrypting or shrinking for that matter which saves space instead of using full size vobs which is one of the bennies of using a divx plyer.
whatever ur doing with vobs can be done just as easily with xvid/divx plus ur savig space, so puh lease save ur rantings for those that dont know any better. dvdrhelp.com is the gospel on these matters.

I know this is getting a bit off topic, but how does one go about converting to avi or mpeg while decrypting a DVD? I've always used DVD Shrink to backup my DVDs to an external HD and the output of this process is VOB files. I don't see a DVD Shrink option to change the output to avi. If someone can point me to an article on how to do this (hopefully, it's easy and simple to do), I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

budster said:Izpoof said:
Again, why bother with vobs, if u have the dvd then play the dvd, if ur doing dvd shrink or decrypter then convert to avi or mpeg while decrypting or shrinking for that matter which saves space instead of using full size vobs which is one of the bennies of using a divx plyer.
whatever ur doing with vobs can be done just as easily with xvid/divx plus ur savig space, so puh lease save ur rantings for those that dont know any better. dvdrhelp.com is the gospel on these matters.


I know this is getting a bit off topic, but how does one go about converting to avi or mpeg while decrypting a DVD? I've always used DVD Shrink to backup my DVDs to an external HD and the output of this process is VOB files. I don't see a DVD Shrink option to change the output to avi. If someone can point me to an article on how to do this (hopefully, it's easy and simple to do), I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

Try ripping with DVDFab HD Decrypter, then run it through AutoGK or.. Xilisoft DVD to DivX Converter 4 which is easier but costs $$$ unless you know... uhmm, yea Ill leave it at that.

I'd like to know what converter you use that gets 20min conversion times from DVD to .avi???

Izpoof said:DealsBrokeMe said:Izpoof said:ysb said:To those who own this machine:


BTW, if its taking u 2 hrs to convert on ur "quad core"(which is a dual core personafied) then you're doing something terribly wrong or ur multitaskin like an sob, either way it takes me about 20min for a normal 90 min dvd.

2 hours to convert on a quad core!! LMAO

Rack him, Im out

I noticed in the manual for the 5992, that it will rip CDs to the USB port in MP3 format. Now that's something new! It makes me wonder if, since it can write music to the USB port, could it be hacked to write DVDs???

alhall said:I noticed in the manual for the 5992, that it will rip CDs to the USB port in MP3 format. Now that's something new! It makes me wonder if, since it can write music to the USB port, could it be hacked to write DVDs???

Any known hacks?

what would be cool... a dvd (usb, upconverting, recorder, TiVo-like without subscription), be able to write to usb (shows, dvds)

Can this player play rmvb?

I went to my local Costco today in Gilbert, AZ. They don't carry this model. They had a Toshiba for $59.99, but not the Phillips model. I am a little crapped out