[Tfug] Reminder: Happy Hour, Thurs @ 6pm

[Linux Media]

Jim March wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Linux Media <linuxmedia2 at aim.com 
> <mailto:linuxmedia2 at aim.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Speaking of the meeting... any chance someone can bring a DVD player and
>     let me create images from some disks? These are non-copyrighted disks. I
>     had Flicko's transfer all my various home movies to DVD, but I don't
>     have a DVD player and the CD is built in and to buy an external DVD
>     burner would mean buying a USB 2.0 card for the laptop. 
> 
> 
> 
> Yeah, my new lappy has a DVD burner drive.  I run Ubuntu Hardy and I've 
> got the normal burner tools associated with that plus DVD-rip; I also 
> have a cell-signal modem so if we need to apt-get some other tool that's 
> no sweat.
> 
> I'll also bring some blank DVDs in case yours choke :).
> 
> Also, if you have any hard drive you want stuff dumped to, I carry an 
> adapter that lets me connect any hard disk (SATA, IDE or laptop-size 
> IDE) to a USB port.  So you can bring in a drive, I can hook it up and 
> grab images right off DVD and onto your hard disk.  I have enough CPU 
> power to rip DVDs straight to AVI or whatever in fairly short order if 
> you want to do data files rather than disk images.
> 
> Jim

That's great!!! Much appreciated. I was hoping someone would offer to 
burn the images to DVD also. But that was mostly as a way to make sure 
the image files were good. The main thing is to get the images safely on 
disk.

It would be good to have data files also. I don't know how it all works. 
Would there be a format conversion? I'm just concerned about preserving 
the same quality as the originals.

I have 2 external USB drives and will bring them. But going strait to my 
Laptop hard drive would be great. It will be interesting to see that 
process.

Since I don't currently have a DVD Burner, I'm not sure what disks to 
buy. I've seen +R, -R, +RW, -RW... which ones should I buy? Is there a 
particular brand that tends to be better?

Thanks,
Rocco