Ever wanted to compress your huge 4GB+ DVD movies to 700MB dvd-rips while still retaining the original DVD quality? Well thats what we’re gonna learn today. You might be familiar with the regular 700MB dvd-rips ’scene’ releases, where most underground DVD movies are in 700mb compressed avi format. Today we’ll learn how to compress your personal DVD movies to small 700MB compressed format like the ’scene’ releases, so that you can keep your DVDs safe in your drawer and enjoy watching the compressed rips from your hard disk drive.
Now if you’re familiar with the ‘xvid asd’ compression format used for those tv-shows rips, you might know how nicely compressed those videos are. You get a complete 50minutes season video in a 350MB avi file. We’re gonna use that sort of superb compression for our DVD today in this following tutorial. You’ll see that even when our ~4GB DVD movie is compressed to a 700MB dvd-rip, there wont be much difference in the video or audio qualitybecause of the compression softwares and audio/video settings we’re going to use.
We’ll be using this very nice Xvid/DivX conversion tool called
Posted on August 20, 2008 | Posted in guide, movies, optical media, storage, video
Like most of you Prince of Persia fans out there, I was surprised in a positive way to see pictures of this Hollywood version of the Prince of Persia, Jake Gyllenhaal, who is currently on the set of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The film is being shot in Morroco and the UK, and will be starring Gemma Arterton (as Tamina) along with Jake. Jake’s surely got the physique and hair like the Prince of Persia we all love and like, lets hope he proves to be as tough as the real prince when the movie is released in May 2010. More pictures, after the break.

