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[Garith007]

hello all

i am going to buy a X20 8gig. I was wondering how hard it is to put a DVD onto it? I have lots of DVD's i want to watch on it mostly old TV series. I am not up on how to do it. Any help would be great.

thanks

[MichalisZ]

you can add DVDs to your X20 but after converting them to a compattible format. (.avi and .mp4 i think...). You can use iriverter to do this job vary easy!

[Harry the Dirty Dog]

Hi Garith007,

I just spent the whole Saturday trying this with my new 8gb x20, so I can help.

Download DVD Decrypter, you need this because commercial dvds are encrypted. Use it to decrypt the DVD to your HDD

Download iRiverter and use the "Convert Directory" (not the convert DVD) function, to convert the .VOB files from the DVD into an x20-friendly .avi file. The X20 insists on particular .avi resolution and some such, so you can't just play any .avi. iRiverter is much quicker than the iRiver 3+ software (much quicker...)

The only drawback is that a movie or tv episode may span several .vob files. iRiverter will create a separate .avi file for each .vob file. There may be some sort of .avi merging software out there, but I'm not aware of it.

Don't do what I did and forget the language settings. I currently have Star Trek in italian on my unit.

iRiver took about 10 minutes to convert a 1 hr episode on my AMD Sempron, so the speed is pretty good.

Harry.

[Garith007]

thanks to both of you guys for the answer i will give it ago and let you know how it goes. thanks heaps

[kasabian]

Set DVD Decrypter to rip in .IFO mode (I think) or in DVD Shrink go into options and turn off the split into 1Gb files, they will then rip the DVD as one long file.

[Harry the Dirty Dog]

Yeah, turns out that in DVD mode you can pick a directory. That gives you all sort of choices on language and subtitle settings. Much quicker.

Harry.