- 800 DVD Library
- Posted by Ray on October 9th, 2005
I have over 800 DVD's that I have paid commercial prices for and I am looking
for a way to store those movies (ie. StarWars, etc.) on a network hard drive
and view them on my rear projection TV (just like my progressive scan DVD
plays them). Is this possible with Media Center 2005?
- Posted by Pete Delgado on October 9th, 2005
"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7ADC8810-2BD0-4E5C-82F2-53CF8E3C5E63@microsoft.com...
>I have over 800 DVD's that I have paid commercial prices for and I am
>looking
> for a way to store those movies (ie. StarWars, etc.) on a network hard
> drive
> and view them on my rear projection TV (just like my progressive scan DVD
> plays them). Is this possible with Media Center 2005?
Yes, as long as:
1. You have a *huge* amount of storage space on your server. Each DVD will
take anywhere from 4GB to 9GB (rough estimate) to backup if not using some
sort of compression.
2. You are not using a wireless connection to connect the MCE machine to
the server (the data rate won't be high enough for DVD video in most cases).
3. You have the time to backup each DVD.
-Pete
- Posted by Dave Brewster on October 11th, 2005
THat's actually something I want to do as well - well maybe just the kid
movies so the little ones don't have to handle the DVDs and risk scratching
them.
Can you explain how the DVDs can get "backed up" to the hard drive in a
format that Media Center can read? I understood that it could only read MPEG2
or that new format that came out with Media Center 2005.
Dave
"Pete Delgado" wrote:
>
> "Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7ADC8810-2BD0-4E5C-82F2-53CF8E3C5E63@microsoft.com...
> >I have over 800 DVD's that I have paid commercial prices for and I am
> >looking
> > for a way to store those movies (ie. StarWars, etc.) on a network hard
> > drive
> > and view them on my rear projection TV (just like my progressive scan DVD
> > plays them). Is this possible with Media Center 2005?
>
> Yes, as long as:
>
> 1. You have a *huge* amount of storage space on your server. Each DVD will
> take anywhere from 4GB to 9GB (rough estimate) to backup if not using some
> sort of compression.
>
> 2. You are not using a wireless connection to connect the MCE machine to
> the server (the data rate won't be high enough for DVD video in most cases).
>
> 3. You have the time to backup each DVD.
>
>
> -Pete
>
>
>
- Posted by Pete Delgado on October 13th, 2005
"Dave Brewster" <DaveBrewster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:01F2B5BA-5A68-411A-A41E-0340F3342398@microsoft.com...
> THat's actually something I want to do as well - well maybe just the kid
> movies so the little ones don't have to handle the DVDs and risk
> scratching
> them.
>
> Can you explain how the DVDs can get "backed up" to the hard drive in a
> format that Media Center can read? I understood that it could only read
> MPEG2
> or that new format that came out with Media Center 2005.
I back all of my children's movies up using DVD Shrink. You have the
ability to compress the movies and you can also create the video_ts folders
that MCE understands as a DVD image. You then simply add the directories
with all the DVD images into your "My Videos" collection or use the My
Movies add-in from http://www.mymovies.name/ to easily browse the movies.
It's much easier to back-up a movie than replace a DVD with fingerprints,
scratches or penut-butter on it!
-Pete
- Posted by Dave Brewster on October 13th, 2005
Perhaps I should clarify, I am using a Windows Media Center Extender (the
xbox version to be exact), I understand that it has to be MPEG 2 to work
(even though other formats work on the PC - Extenders have to be MPEG2).
Am I mistaken about his? Can the Extender also view hte Video_ts folder?
(VOB Folders I believe)
"Pete Delgado" wrote:
>
> "Dave Brewster" <DaveBrewster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:01F2B5BA-5A68-411A-A41E-0340F3342398@microsoft.com...
> > THat's actually something I want to do as well - well maybe just the kid
> > movies so the little ones don't have to handle the DVDs and risk
> > scratching
> > them.
> >
> > Can you explain how the DVDs can get "backed up" to the hard drive in a
> > format that Media Center can read? I understood that it could only read
> > MPEG2
> > or that new format that came out with Media Center 2005.
>
> I back all of my children's movies up using DVD Shrink. You have the
> ability to compress the movies and you can also create the video_ts folders
> that MCE understands as a DVD image. You then simply add the directories
> with all the DVD images into your "My Videos" collection or use the My
> Movies add-in from http://www.mymovies.name/ to easily browse the movies.
>
> It's much easier to back-up a movie than replace a DVD with fingerprints,
> scratches or penut-butter on it!
>
> -Pete
>
>
>
- Posted by PAPutzback on October 18th, 2005
http://www.thenears.com/
This site has everything you need know about encoding the vob files
with Windows media encoder to a version the extenders will play.
- Posted by Dave Brewster on October 18th, 2005
Nice link - lots of info - but after looking through it for a while, I
couldn't find what I was looking for.
Nice site regardless.
"PAPutzback" wrote:
> http://www.thenears.com/
>
> This site has everything you need know about encoding the vob files
> with Windows media encoder to a version the extenders will play.
>
>
- Posted by Dave Brewster on October 18th, 2005
I take that back.
I did find it.
Requires several programs - but I think I'll give it an attempt tonight...
Although picking up a 400 DVD changer might be a better solution ;-)
Dave
"PAPutzback" wrote:
> http://www.thenears.com/
>
> This site has everything you need know about encoding the vob files
> with Windows media encoder to a version the extenders will play.
>
>
- Posted by PAPutzback on October 18th, 2005
I don't think an extender will play video off of a remote DVD drive. If
that was true I could use an extender to play mounted iso files. The
nice thing about the Nears site is he tells you how to encode
everything in a format that the extenders will play and and decent
portable media center should play. And this file can be shared to any
extender. unless you plan on making a copy for every dvd changer on
every tv.
- Posted by Dave Brewster on October 26th, 2005
I did look at his website and tried everything out.
There were some tricky things (downloading the correct version of software
he mentions for example) - but eventually I got everything working great.
I've ripped 4 kids flicks to the HD now.
Funny thing is - I went to rip one of my home movies - it didn't work - got
errors - seems like his instructions only work for protected DVDs. Go figure.
;-)
Dave
"PAPutzback" wrote:
> I don't think an extender will play video off of a remote DVD drive. If
> that was true I could use an extender to play mounted iso files. The
> nice thing about the Nears site is he tells you how to encode
> everything in a format that the extenders will play and and decent
> portable media center should play. And this file can be shared to any
> extender. unless you plan on making a copy for every dvd changer on
> every tv.
>
>
