Elemental-Gear Episode 7

With Elemental-Gear episode 7 we are introducing part 2 of our series of episodes on video. We will be covering extracting digital video from DVDs and encoding that video into different formats. The purpose of doing this is to provide us with a stable, long term, space efficient, and high quality format for storage with flexible playback options on different devices. We talked about using 3 different encoding program: the DivX Create Bundle, Dr. DivX 2.0, and Auto Gordian Knot 2.25.

Our Picks for Episode 7 were the VLC Media Player for Jim and DVD Shrink yours truly.

The elements we described during episode 7 were as follows:

• DVD Region Codes
• DVD File Structure Layout
• DVD Decrypter
• DVD Shrink
• DivX Create Bundle- trial version
• AC3 filter for DivX Converter
• Dr DivX 2.0
• Auto Gordian Knot
• Doom9.net
• DivX Certified Products

DivX 6 just came out for the Mac as well, we didn’t talk about it during this episode but it’s out there for all you Mac user, it includes the DivX Converter, DivX Codec, and DivX playback support if you want to check it out.

Direct Link to Episode 7