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Does anybody have experience of running DVD Decrypter, DVD2One and Audiograbber on a TR1??

I am in a bit of a quandary as to which laptop to get - either a TR1 or something larger (e.g. 3 Ghz P4 & a 15” screen), and whilst I know the TR1 obviously won’t burn DVDs it’s rather handy to carry around to just rip a dvd (or CD->MP3s), at a friends house for example, which I can later transfer (via ethernet/WiFi) to my home PC for burning….

Thanks, Kevin.

Yes, I’ve converted a couple other-region DVDs I own to OGM files, and the TR2 rips quite nicely (and quickly too).  The compression/encoding phase is a long one, but for ripping a disc at a friends it would work quite well.

Hi, another related question: how long does it take to transfer such a volume of data (4-8Gb), meaning real experience, not theoretical maximums))over a wifi link to my home PC -or am I being stupid, and should just hard-plug it into the ethernet net I have (I’m assuming that the bottleneck is not the wi-fi here..). Any examples from both TR1 & TR2??

Did anybody get any update when TR2 would be available in Europe?? My local dealer said early 2004 - but I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him…

Thanks, Kevin

[quote author=“fz750”]Hi, another related question: how long does it take to transfer such a volume of data (4-8Gb), meaning real experience, not theoretical maximums))over a wifi link to my home PC -or am I being stupid, and should just hard-plug it into the ethernet net I have (I’m assuming that the bottleneck is not the wi-fi here..). Any examples from both TR1 & TR2??

From personal experience…it will take an extremely long time. It will take so long that it would not be practical at all. You’ll want to plug into a wired connection if you’re going to transfer 4-8GB of data. Or, you at least need 802.11g. If you can imagine…802.11b has a max “actual” transfer of 5.5Mb per second. It takes 8Mb to equal 1MB. So, you’re not even getting 1MB/s transfer rate and you’re stuck at 0.69MB/s. You can do the math to figure out how long that would take. And that’s assuming there isn’t a lot of overhead and latency. If you have 802.11g then at least the actual transfer rate is nearly 20Mb/s or 2.5MB/s transfer rate.

So, save yourself the excruciating wait…and plug in. :D