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On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2011-12-17, David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de> wrote: |
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>>> Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD |
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>>> Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen |
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>>> TV. |
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>>> These players allow you to treat .iso files on the network just as if |
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>>> they were actual DVDs and give you full access to the menus and extra |
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>>> features. |
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>> At least mplayer, vlc and xine will also happily play a directory, be |
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>> it a mounted DVD, a mounted image or just a rip as made by dvdbackup |
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>> and others (e.g. lxdvdrip). |
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> The SageTv set-top box will happily play a DVD directory also (in |
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> addition to playing TV shows recorded by the SageTv DVR server |
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> software). |
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Practically all players will do this, I think, but I much prefer having the DVD as a single file, to move and copy and store. |
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A directory containing a a VIDEO_TS and a load of files just seems a lot more fragile to me. Were you to accidentally delete one of the VOB files, there would be no way to tell the difference from looking at the outside of the video's folder. |
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> … I absolutely dread going to |
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> back to MythTv with a big, hot, noisy PC sitting next to my TV… |
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I bought an eMachines 1401 recently - it's not as perfectly silent as the PlayOn (which is fanless), but it's *very* close. It's an AMD atom-equivalent, dual-core, mini desktop PC, about 7" on a side and maybe 1" thick. Right now, powered on with no load just to judge it for this conversation, I can hear it if my ear is a foot away from it, but not 2 or 3 feet away, not against the normal background noise in my apartment (clock ticking in the kitchen and so on). Right now its hard-drive is louder than its fan (which is shifting so little air that I can barely feel it, even putting my hand an inch from the grille). I think that if you load it up with an emerge then the fan will ramp up a bit, but I doubt if you'd notice it when watching a movie. |
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Stroller. |
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