Thanks to Slysoft for being in existence. Thanks to Ch3vron for getting this information to us.
I admit I have not read this entire thread. (it IS pretty long)
It would seem that the Slyce project is mainly for folks who want to lighten up the amount of data that has to be stored for their backups.
I used CloneDVD years ago and realized it took several minutes (or it felt like it) to remove the trailers, unwanted audio, etc. I did get faster after doing it for awhile (about 100 movies).
Now, I just pop in a disk wait until AnyDVDHD does its thing, right click on the fox in the icon panel, select rip to image, tell it where I want it stored and walk away. The whole process takes only seconds.
When I do get around to watching the movie, it does not take much time to wade through the trailers, and I'd rather take the time to wade at that point rather than when I am trying to rip disks. Besides on our men's movie night, I use the trailers as a way of saying: "Ok fellas, get your drinks, put away the pool cues and let's watch a movie."
So my question is, how useful will Slyce be for someone like me who does not care if all of the extras are part of the backup? After all, storage is now very cheap. I also understand that It MAY be able to compress to mobile device. ETC: Again, I am only interested in quickly getting my iso's on my storage devices, without worrying about extra baggage.
Thanks again. If it weren't for Slysoft I would not have 10 terabytes of movies--and counting_with the ability to watch on any computer in my home network. My disk collection is approaching 5,000 (remember, DVD's are only about 5 GB), collecting dust.