DVD Ripping
Posted by: Mr Underhill on 22 January 2011
Has anyone looked into this?
Is anyone streaming their DVDs?
Experiences? Pro and con?
From a personal POV, I have a very large collection of DVDs. Having them as discs takes up a fair amount of cupboard space, this as AFTER transferring them from their boxes into folders.
Having bought a BluRay player for my 2nd system that acts as a DLNA client I have experimented with ripping and streaming DVDs.
I have also experimented with attaching a PC to a TV via HDMI and using that to upscale to 1080.
My current thinking is, CON:
1. Need a large amount of space to rip at HIGHEST quality, and see no point in ripping to anything else, wouldn't want to do this twice;
2. Need to train the other house occupants in how to access media;
3. Time to rip and catalogue;
4. With that amount of storage backup would be fun - DLT at home! I know the discs are the ultimate backup - but who wants to rip more than once!
PRO:
1. Media made easily available all round the house, on multiple platforms;
2. Technology easily available for upscaling on multiple platforms;
3. Geekish fun!
4. No DVDs to leave hanging around picking up dust and scratches.
On the whole I'm thinking of just sticking with the 'old fashioned' pick a disc approach, but ......
M
Is anyone streaming their DVDs?
Experiences? Pro and con?
From a personal POV, I have a very large collection of DVDs. Having them as discs takes up a fair amount of cupboard space, this as AFTER transferring them from their boxes into folders.
Having bought a BluRay player for my 2nd system that acts as a DLNA client I have experimented with ripping and streaming DVDs.
I have also experimented with attaching a PC to a TV via HDMI and using that to upscale to 1080.
My current thinking is, CON:
1. Need a large amount of space to rip at HIGHEST quality, and see no point in ripping to anything else, wouldn't want to do this twice;
2. Need to train the other house occupants in how to access media;
3. Time to rip and catalogue;
4. With that amount of storage backup would be fun - DLT at home! I know the discs are the ultimate backup - but who wants to rip more than once!
PRO:
1. Media made easily available all round the house, on multiple platforms;
2. Technology easily available for upscaling on multiple platforms;
3. Geekish fun!
4. No DVDs to leave hanging around picking up dust and scratches.
On the whole I'm thinking of just sticking with the 'old fashioned' pick a disc approach, but ......
M
Quote : I only rip DVDs for use on portable devices when travelling. It takes far too long to consider doing the whole library. Much easier to just play the discs.
Whatever happened to the simple quote function. This new website is NOT friendly, IMO.
Anyway - I'm the same.
Whatever happened to the simple quote function. This new website is NOT friendly, IMO.
Anyway - I'm the same.
On mac, I use a programme called 'Ripit' which simply strips out any encyrption and rips the TS folder to the computer.
I can then either leave it like this and bang it on the nas or run it through DVD2ONEX which does not convert it mearly extracts the relevent part of the the VPB files within the tsfolder. The benefit of this is it takes about 7 minutes to sort out a video as opposed to an hour or more when transcoding.
This resultant file is stuck in a suitably named folder such as 'Superman (1979)' and banged in my films folder on the nas.
The wonderful XBMC then picks this up and finds the detail and lovely art work for it so this is what I see on my TV screen:
A little geekery is involved but XBMC is our primary method of watching TV, with the added bonus of an iPlayer pluggin which even taps the HD streams.
I can then either leave it like this and bang it on the nas or run it through DVD2ONEX which does not convert it mearly extracts the relevent part of the the VPB files within the tsfolder. The benefit of this is it takes about 7 minutes to sort out a video as opposed to an hour or more when transcoding.
This resultant file is stuck in a suitably named folder such as 'Superman (1979)' and banged in my films folder on the nas.
The wonderful XBMC then picks this up and finds the detail and lovely art work for it so this is what I see on my TV screen:
A little geekery is involved but XBMC is our primary method of watching TV, with the added bonus of an iPlayer pluggin which even taps the HD streams.
Originally Posted by GreenAlex:
CONs imho:
- takes up lots of disc space (100 DVD = 800GB)
- needs a server which adds cost and increases energy consumption unnecessarily (more an environmental factor to me...and adds cost)
- takes ages to rip
I have played around with streaming media to my client and it does work well even for 1080.
But just like with my CD collection it takes ages to rip them all.
I set up a 4 drive rip-station with 3 external usb drives using dbPoweramo (for my CDs) but still couldn't get myself to finish the deed as it is tidious and takes too long.
It's a nice little project if you have the time. But ripping a DVD will take even longer.
If you have your DVDs in a folder rather than their cases they can't take up that much space, or can they?
More than a server would? Or is there a server running anyway?
I like the idea of 24/7 access from anywhere within the house. But then you need clients everywhere.
- takes up lots of disc space (100 DVD = 800GB)
- needs a server which adds cost and increases energy consumption unnecessarily (more an environmental factor to me...and adds cost)
- takes ages to rip
I have played around with streaming media to my client and it does work well even for 1080.
But just like with my CD collection it takes ages to rip them all.
I set up a 4 drive rip-station with 3 external usb drives using dbPoweramo (for my CDs) but still couldn't get myself to finish the deed as it is tidious and takes too long.
It's a nice little project if you have the time. But ripping a DVD will take even longer.
If you have your DVDs in a folder rather than their cases they can't take up that much space, or can they?
More than a server would? Or is there a server running anyway?
I like the idea of 24/7 access from anywhere within the house. But then you need clients everywhere.
Hi,
The storage space really isn't an issue anymore - 1Tb of storage (around 200 DVDs in reality if you don't bother with extras etc) is about £40 and 2Tb drives (400 DVDs) are hovering around the £70 mark.
Ripping a DVD on my desktop PC takes about 6 minutes for most discs using AnyDVD / CloneDVD (including removing all the stuff that you might not want such as menus, extras and foreign language audio / subtitles).
Even 1080p Blu-Ray's play perfectly across my network - I have a Popcorn Hour C200 in my living room and the old (discontinued?) A110 as bedroom players.
My server currently runs to about 27Tb, holds my DVD, Blu-Ray and CD collections and keeps the chill off my bathroom.
Phil