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

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