Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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Tom, can VLC on a PC play a disc image as if it were a DVD? (I do my production work on a Mac, but our corporate workstations are all PCs, so that's what the sales team uses.)
I have no idea about server space, but it will be easier to get a budget approved for additional server space in the new office than it will be to get me a freaking bookshelf because that's just the kind of mind-numbing bureaucratic INSANITY I'm dealing with here.
Tom, can VLC on a PC play a disc image as if it were a DVD?
I'm about 90% sure that it can do this, but I'll have to try it when I get home to be sure.
That would be SO much faster. I'll also need to make sure Sonic can burn them to playable DVDs (or else beg IT to let the Macs access the shared drives).
Don't bother checking for me - I can do a test run here (and our systems are so ridonkulously locked down that I'd have to double-check anyway just to make sure we aren't running some bizarro-world proprietary version of VLC with that feature disabled).
Jessica,
I believe VLC can play a disc image on PCs and Macs. I've done it before, but I'm not sure if they changed anything on the new version.
Yes, the disc image--> VLC method works! Score!
Now to convince IT that I need 15TB of storage space...
Based on my sample size of 1, encoding to Quicktime would be about a third of that, but would take 4 times as long. ICK.
Or I could just put my foot down and demand a budget for encoding so we can send the DVDs offsite and pay someone else to do it. Hope springs eternal.
I said at least 15TB. Depending on how many of the DVDs are double-layered, it could end up being as much as double that.
The hourlong prog I just tested came out at 3.2GB. 4000 DVDs of that length (and not all are that long - VERY few are longer) works out to about 12.5TB. I also haven't weeded any out yet - I can probably junk about 10% of these before we even start.
Or I could just put my foot down and demand a budget for encoding so we can send the DVDs offsite and pay someone else to do it. Hope springs eternal.
or you could just use the money to buy a bookshelf.
Do you need a whole DVD or could you convert video to avi? It would take up a heckuva lot less space if it is just 1 video you need as opposed to a true dvd with extras/subtitles, etc.
You'd think so, but that would require me to be working for a company not operating under the Insane Troll Logic Manifesto.