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

[Jeffry Johnston]

Either -R or +R are fine.  Avoid RW's.  Not sure about brands.

Jeff

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Linux Media <linuxmedia2 at aim.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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