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On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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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Interesting info. Thanks. |
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My new TV actually has a number of USB ports and I've managed to mount |
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a USB disk with mp4 files created by Handbrake and play them just |
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fine. I hadn't considered trying an iso file though. I'll give that a |
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shot this weekend and see if it sees them. Unfortunately *.iso isn't |
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on their recognized formats list, but it's worth a try. The nice thing |
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about the TV is that it has lots of Open Source software built in and |
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puts of nice folders showing the directories I've created and all the |
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files in each directory. I'm currently experimenting with how much I |
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can tolerate in terms of compressing the DVD info. |
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I'll certainly look into dvdbackup. I tried to emerge it but I've |
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gotten some sort of package block going on that portage isn't happy |
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about. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |