Haha excellent - how is the quality compared to your previous DVD player?

What is a "Dance" DVD? Sounds awful.

Dance:

Swan Lake (2 DVDs) & Lord of the Dance.

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The main BluRay player is an Oppo 83 - and I think the streaming is probably better. I mentioned in an earlier post that the quality of Aliens on DVD was noticeably green tinged on certain shots, but not so noticeable when streamed. A similar effect on the Fellowship of the Ring in The Mines of Moria on DVD is absent when streamed.

M

Uggh. That's the nightmare image I had in my mind .

Yep - that's why it has its own category, to make SURE I can't select it by accident ....but the girls LOVE it, or they did five years ago!

M

Congratulations Mr U

I can imagen it's a great feeling having it al sorted out and stored safely!

Probably covered elsewhere, but how do you rip and stream DVD?

Having ripped and archived my CD collection, I'd love to do the same for my movies.

Edit - Used the search function now , still confused, but lots to read!

Ripping to the NAS I get, will need to investigate the streaming capabilities of my TV and Blu-ray player. 

Hi Fred,

It is great not only having the discs stored in the loft, so they can't be left out, but I've got: two cupboards back for use in the living room; all the media streamable to our laptops as well as the BluRay players; An index of all the movies & TV programs; An off-site backup of the lot.

Pain having top do it though!

Maxi,

I think it is an interesting journey, and it also means you can stream web content to your TV as well, the quality of which can be great, depending on the upscaling available in your hardware.

M

I use a $25 program called RipIt. works great, and creates a direct copy of the DVD files that the player on your computer can then read/play, just as if it were playing the DVD itself. It will also automatically create a file for iPad etc. In fact, the only reason we rip movies at all is for travel. Otherwise we play the discs.

A new "Smart" TV (or an Apple TV?) might be able to play ripped movies straight from a NAS. Not sure.

(I previously used another program than essentially played the DVD then re-compressed the stream into a file on the computer. This wasn't a good idea due to potential loss of quality as DVD video is already "lossy" compressed.)

Hi,

I take advantage of this thread even though I may have already enquired about this, in which case thanks for your patience and possible double replies.

I plan to rip my DVDs too, for convenience only - much as many do with CDs on the other forum.I acknowledge that there are programs for this, but I also understand the main road is to rip them on a PC/Mac and then move them to a multimedia HD.

Is there a one box solution, like a Vortexbox or a HDX/UnitiServe, for cinema? An enclosure with HD, drive, software? Is it mandatory to pass through a PC?

Thanks,

Max

Max,

VortexBox 1.7 Adds DVD Ripping

That said one of the things I was concious of was ripping to the max poss quality. What I like about MakeMKV is that it doesn't process the video, just dumps out what is there. I'd just assure yourself on how Vortexbox is handling the video stream.

Vortexbox rips DVDs to mkv.

M

Hi,

Thanks!

This is just the piece of news I was hoping for... And I am just about to install Vortexbox on an old PC of mine.

I'll check about video quality,

Max