[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-12-17, David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de> wrote:

>>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.
>>
>>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.
>
> At least mplayer, vlc and xine will also happily play a directory, be
> it a mounted DVD, a mounted image or just a rip as made by dvdbackup
> and others (e.g. lxdvdrip).

The SageTv set-top box will happily play a DVD directory also (in
addition to playing TV shows recorded by the SageTv DVR server
software).  Sadly, Google bought SageTv and shut them down.  It's too
bad.  SageTv server + set-top-box was a really great product.  I don't
know what I'm going to do when it dies.  I absolutely dread going to
back to MythTv with a big, hot, noisy PC sitting next to my TV...

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