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« on: July 10, 2008, 01:51:02 PM »
Why do the nice scene folks put out MKV files larger than 8GB (what a DVD9 can store)?  It's difficult to split MKV files.  Why don't they split them up into 4.37GB chunks, like the way of two-rip divxes?
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Offline Jerrylof

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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2008, 01:53:12 PM »
Quality reasons, especially with DTS audio... you lose some quality to compress the movies to fit, especially movies over 2 hours long. You should invest in a 500gb+ HD anyways...  :D

Also not a fan of splitting video files, I like my shit in one piece. Especially when Bluray media becomes more affordable...
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2008, 02:08:32 PM »
What's with people burning discs still. It's f'n 2008!
Ever heard of media servers?
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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2008, 08:12:45 AM »
Quote from: "Dude_NJX"
What's with people burning discs still. It's f'n 2008!
Ever heard of media servers?

Ever heard of a hard copy?
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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2008, 02:34:14 PM »
As in HARD drive?

I'm sure your 500-DVD cases are getting tons of use...
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« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2008, 04:34:44 PM »
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As in HARD drive?

I'm sure your 500-DVD cases are getting tons of use...
Even these days, I still keep a hard copy of movies I intend to watch in the future. Nothing worse than knowing you lost 250gb-1tb of your stuff, without having a hard copy as backup.
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« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2008, 01:27:59 AM »
Same here.  I back up movies worth seeing to a DVD.  Even though I have a 1TB setup, of which 750GB is available for movies, with MKVs, 1TB doesn't go very far.  The average MKV is about 4GB -- so that's about 180 movies.  Not too many at all.

The last thing I want to do is span these oversized movies over 2 DVDs via WinRAR or some such nonsense.  I just wish the scene would use 4.37GB as the hard limit and split the movies up accordingly.  Nobody puts out 1400MB divxes, right?
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2008, 05:46:37 PM »
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As in HARD drive?

I'm sure your 500-DVD cases are getting tons of use...

No, as in a cd binder that holds my dvd's http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ENJ32288&cat=CAR
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