News DiVX Tutorial at Short-Media

Doug from Short-Media gives us a useful tutorial on the art of making DiVX files:

Within this tutorial you will find, in order, the steps required to take any NTSC DVD disc and convert to a high-quality DiVX edition that can fit on 1-4 CDs as you choose. More specifically, this tutorial will outline how to produce a DiVX copy with 5.1 AC3 audio encoding at a DVD bitrate, as well as a picture that has a resolution that bears the same dimensions as its DVD-counterpart.

Full tutorial here

 

Isn't it a bit questionable posting this info on BiT? It's the equivelent of giving people who what to use this information other than for backup purposes a tutorial on how to crack the CD protection on games so they can burn duplicates onto CD.

 

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And that's pretty much the same stance I'd take on behalf of Bit. Just because it could be used for neferious purposes does not mean that it will be.

I can see several reasons why someone may want to do this. Want take some movies with you on holiday, but your laptop hasn't got a DVD drive - copy to CD and use them.

Want to take a lot of movies with you? DiVX the originals to the HDD - and so on.

 

I dont want to take DVDs to uni with me so im backing up all mine. Divx encoding isnt illegal, but like everything it can be if the end users decides so. Same with cassette tapes, same with VHS tapes etc been around for ages.