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using an external blu-ray burner/reader (Buffalo), I first strip the protection off using AnyDVD HD, i believe
it makes a virtual image of it, not sure, but it works for 400+ Blu-rays/dvds i have tried, then I use HandBrake,
freeware, to rip to MKV, more or less uncompressed - i was, was using a Dell, solid state, with external 6 TB drive,
but found that the buffer got loaded up, so switched to this laptop - Hurt Locker is 16.5 gig, larger than my memory,
just been thinking about this, not tried, but Scarface is 14.5 gig, so will try that next - i turned off hardware acceleration,
and videoclock and went back to std red october - this time i will turn on hardware acceleration, videoclock, and red october HQ,
for my first pass at it, then will try a small file, the devil wears prada, at about 5 gig, to see if it is a RAM problem, for some
stupid reason i thought there was some switch i turned on in JRiver to bring the whole stupid file into memory, but for the life of
me i cant' find it
REALLY REALLY WANT TO SOLVE THIS FOR THE JRiver COMMUNITY - JRiver is an insanely great platform, love, love the music,
and to have all of a person's video at the tip of the iphone fingers is going to be phenomenal
all the help the group can offer would be great
will post soon my findings on use of 16 gig RAM with a 14.5 gig MKV and a 5 gig MKV
thanks!