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| Burnin` my MP4's | | Date Created: Dec 22, 2005, 12:54 PM |
I've been keeping movies in the Video_TS format on one of my external hard drives for quite a while. It saves the original DVD (cause it can just sit on the shelf), I was able to keep the English subtitles (I rarely watch anything with the sound on - so I needed this), and it made it very easy to take everything with me (I typically travel with 20+ movies on a hard drive that is no bigger than 4 DVD cases)...
I was playing with "Handbrake" a few weeks ago - it's a program which takes the Video_TS folder (which is usually between 5-8GB in size) and converts it to an MP4 file (which is usually less than 1GB) - come to find that this program will import the English Subtitles along with everything else it does...
After finding this out, I have spent the last few weeks converting all my DVD's, and Video_TS folders which were already on the hard drive, to MP4's with English Subtitles. My "Movies" folder has gone from 25 movies (at about 200GB in size in the Video_TS format) to 100 movies (at almost exactly 100 GB in the MP4 file format). By the time I'm done, I will have every movie I own on my external hard drive ready to play whenever, and wherever, I am...
I decided I will only do this with DVD's which have English Subtitles - obviously, it's really important to me to have the subtitles. The only thing that bummed me out about that is my SG-1's. I have all of them, but only the last season (season 8) has subtitles. Other than that, all else is well, I can live without the few movies who do not have them... |
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