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On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more |
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> about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K |
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> investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep the ripped |
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> version here to watch on the computer, and store the DVDs elsewhere, |
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> but that elimiates (generally) being able to watch special features |
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> which my wife and kid enjoy. |
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I've been down this path fairly extensively. |
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Use media-video/dvdbackup and mkisofs (from app-cdr/cdrtools) to create .iso images of your DVDs. |
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Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen TV. |
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These players allow you to treat .iso files on the network just as if they were actual DVDs and give you full access to the menus and extra features. |
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I'm in the process of trying media-tv/xbmc instead - I believe it handles menus, but haven't got far enough to test that (I just got video sorted on my HTPC, now working on sound). |
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dvdbackup will fail on a small number of DVDs which have been "copy-protected" by making them non-compliant with the DVD specification (IMO this is fixable in dvdbackup's code), but I'm getting at least a 95% success rate. |
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I have found writing dual-layer DVDs practically impossible. The failure rate is way too high - even disks which burned "successfully" are unreadable on another PC / player. |
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Stroller. |
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