Av700

[headhunter994]

Hello All,

I've just recently purchased an Archos av700 (which I'm well impressed with), but was just wondering if anyone has found a best method of getting DVD's onto the player.
Ive heard of direct link up to a DVD player and tweaking the bit rate settings can give good results, but also converting DVD to DIVX and then transfering file.
Had anyone found a easiest, and for quality a best result?

Thanks for any advise.

Cheers

[tat2sailor]

Hi headhunter994, if you're trying to record a higher resolution DVD movie to be viewed on the AV 700, my advice is you won't get much improvement as the resolution is restricted to the LCD display of the player.

If you compare the LCD display in terms of pixels counts of the AV 700 to the AV 500, they are almost similiar but AV 500 surpasses in image quality due to it's smaller LCD display.

7" LCD 480x234 pixels, 262 000 colours
4" LCD 480x272 pixels, 262 000 colours

[headhunter994]

Hi headhunter994, if you're trying to record a higher resolution DVD movie to be viewed on the AV 700, my advice is you won't get much improvement as the resolution is restricted to the LCD display of the player.

If you compare the LCD display in terms of pixels counts of the AV 700 to the AV 500, they are almost similiar but AV 500 surpasses in image quality due to it's smaller LCD display.

7" LCD 480x234 pixels, 262 000 colours
4" LCD 480x272 pixels, 262 000 colours
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Thanks for the advice

[simon]

Hi headhunter994, if you're trying to record a higher resolution DVD movie to be viewed on the AV 700, my advice is you won't get much improvement as the resolution is restricted to the LCD display of the player.

If you compare the LCD display in terms of pixels counts of the AV 700 to the AV 500, they are almost similiar but AV 500 surpasses in image quality due to it's smaller LCD display.

7" LCD 480x234 pixels, 262 000 colours
4" LCD 480x272 pixels, 262 000 colours
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Thanks for the advice
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Headhunter994, just got an Av700 and am looking to store some films for travelling. There seem to be lots of options (e.g. buying software to rip from dvd to AVI to compress). I wondered how you had got on with playing straight from the player ? Only issue there appears to be size of file (5GB+) ??

Thanks,
Simon

[Desgillespie]

Hi headhunter994, if you're trying to record a higher resolution DVD movie to be viewed on the AV 700, my advice is you won't get much improvement as the resolution is restricted to the LCD display of the player.

If you compare the LCD display in terms of pixels counts of the AV 700 to the AV 500, they are almost similiar but AV 500 surpasses in image quality due to it's smaller LCD display.

7" LCD 480x234 pixels, 262 000 colours
4" LCD 480x272 pixels, 262 000 colours
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Thanks for the advice :)
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Headhunter994, just got an Av700 and am looking to store some films for travelling. There seem to be lots of options (e.g. buying software to rip from dvd to AVI to compress). I wondered how you had got on with playing straight from the player ? Only issue there appears to be size of file (5GB+) ??

Thanks,
Simon
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I have found that if I intend to watch my DVD copy on a TV through the AV700 then the highest res should be used for the copy from DVD to the AV700. If you only intend to view it on the 7in screen of the AV700 then it dosn't matter

[gab2001uk]

Best method found so far is to use InToo DVD Ripper, and the DivX profile. This will produce a good quality high res (720X576) video which can be copied straight over to the Archos without modification. If you use the built-in Archos profile, the resulting video is low res and nowhere near as good, but has a smaller file size.
Time taken dependant on hardware, but on Athlon 64 3200+ it takes about an hour to encode a 2 hour film.
Using the Archos itself to record via analogue is very much a last resort

[bareface]

Gab2001uk.

Imtoo DVD Ripper produces excellent quality as you said but I am having problems, when it splits the DVD into AVI say three parts the last one always fails.

Can you suggest typical settings that will overcome this.

Cheers

[simon]

Gab2001uk.

Imtoo DVD Ripper produces excellent quality as you said but I am having problems, when it splits the DVD into AVI say three parts the last one always fails.

Can you suggest typical settings that will overcome this.

Cheers
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Hi,
I am puzzled as to why the DVD is being split into 3 parts. If you have found the single largest DVD (.VOB) file as the main movie (assuming of course you don't want all the extras etc), it should just convert to a single .avi file. One option to look out for within rippers is that they often default to splitting to a single 700MB CD-R, so ensure this is not happening by finding and ticking "no split". As mentioned elsewhere, suggest a minimum 1500b/s sample rate for decent quality.

Hope that helps.

[minhtv74]

Im using Slysoft DVD Clone Mobile ( www.slysoft.com ) very easy and simple to RIP your DVD directly to Archos format with great size/quality