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knighthml
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_ 		11. June 2004 @ 10:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey all,

I have a DVD burner in my desktop PC. When using DVDshrink, I have to put the original in this PC, wait for it to copy to my hard drive, then instert a blank into that DVD drive. That's 2 steps...and obviously I have to wait about 45 minutes until the swap.

I have a laptop on my network with a DVD drive. I want to use that as the source and the DVD burner in my PC and the target.

But DVDshrink doesn't seem to recognize that network drive. Is there anyway to otherwise map or make DVDShrink see it?
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_ 		11. June 2004 @ 13:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'd question whether a CAT-5 network cable would have the bandwidth necessary to feed a burner properly.
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_ 		11. June 2004 @ 23:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I wouldnt recommend burning over the network ....

DVD @ 4x = ~6.0MB/sec
Caching/disk access by OS: ~2.0 MB/sec
Network Transfer: 8.0 MB/sec litteral (~15MB/sec effective)
Net Drive Activity Requirement: 23 MB/s+

If your drives can sustain 23MB/sec for the duration of the burn, go for it. I'd reccommend a defrag before you start tho
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knighthml
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_ 		12. June 2004 @ 09:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I can't seem to get DVDShrink to see the network drive anyway...

This laptop I have is shot (no screen)...can I yank the hard drive and DVD drive and put it in my desktop? Or is it a different kind of hookup?
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_ 		12. June 2004 @ 18:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
forget about shrink seeing your network drives... can your pc see your network drives? If so, transfer the files.
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_ 		12. June 2004 @ 20:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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can your pc see your network drives? If so, transfer the files.
An elegant solution indeed :)
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_ 		14. June 2004 @ 01:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sounds like much to do over nothing. And no, laptop drives don't fit desktop PC drive slots. There are adapter kits that will make it work though. No matter where the files originate, Shrink is going to load the file to the hard drive (temp file) and analyze and encode for burning. The only advantage you have with an extra drive is being able to preload the target disc to be recorded.

If the monitor doesn't work on the laptop, how do you know what it's doing? After all the laptop has to be set up and configured to work within a network. Just because it's plugged in doesn't mean it will work. Even if all was working the way you want, the laptop would read the disk for Shrink, the file would still go to the HD for analysis and encoding and your desktop would do the burn duties. You would have still loaded 2 disks, and two computers would have done what one could have done more efficently. With a single drive; you load, remove and reload 2 disks. With 2 drives, you load 2 disks. No steps saved, except coming back to the PC during the recording process.

If you want the ease of a second drive, the easy way (maybe not cheapest) is to just add one to the PC in use. Internal is best, but if you don't have the expansion slot there are a lot of good external units. For that kind of bucks, I would just load the disc and forget about it.
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laptop drives don't fit desktop PC drive slots
Yes buf if I'm not mistaken they also sell LaptopIDE-to-DesktopIDE convertors for ~10USD for the purposes of data recovery etc ... so just for xferring files, it should be doable (although the network solution is more elegant).
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If the monitor doesn't work on the laptop, how do you know what it's doing?
TV Out? Just guessin....
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_ 		14. June 2004 @ 17:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Praetor,
Edited my previous comment. Of course you are correct on adapters. Still wonder why a person would want to go to all that trouble. Prices on DVD drives are at bargain basement prices now. For not many dollars more he could have the dvd drive meant for his PC.

He can get a name brand CD/DVD drive for about $45 US. Probably find one cheaper on EBay or elsewhere. That's only $35 more and he can even play music when he isn't burning movies. I should have said he has the ability to use CD media along with the extra DVD capability. This is one case where I'd say the extra few bucks would be well spent.
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