Quincy doesn’t think much of Apple Computers,
yesterday (during some early-hours drinking) he coined the name “crap ‘n posh”
as a jibe directed at my Macintosh (the iBook G3) which can’t decode and rip (to
DiVX) while closed, and in my case running down Ship-row (after a really great
bar-supper – woah, Yorshire Puddings the size of your head – at the
Illicit
Still). I tried to argue that my iBook didn’t
need to do ripping on the go (on the move) and that it was probably
impossible… but maybe not, there must be a mobile solution to cloning
cds/dvds. A Panasonic Toughbook
may do it – PC Laptops have a nice option to “do nothing” when the user closes
the lid – an option sadly missing on my iBook – which has VGA out, it’d be a
perfect set-top-encoder!

Anyhoo – where was I going with
this… I’m compiling a how-to on DVD-PSP (memory stick needed) for the Mac. I’m
using ffmpegX and some other fun tools, there’s hacking-a-plenty but it takes
hours. Soon…p.s. I’d love a Toughbook,
shame about Windows.