Do you back up DVDs to another DVD or to HDD?

[archcommus]

But with this many movies I definitely want to do it for him.

Thanks for the suggestion, Trogdor91, but I'm still waiting to hear what most other people do when they're ripping to store on an HTPC.

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: Trogdor91
I downloaded this program the other day RatDVD and it seems to work pretty well. Supposedly will take any dvd, including dvd9 and can compress it down to 1.5 gigs. From the couple of movies I have tried, the quality of the rips are very good.

Just downloaded ratDVD. I am also looking to possibly store my DVD's on an HTPC. I will give it a try, actually I am now. I don't know much about it, so I don't really have room to knock it, but it doesn't seem to use much CPU power. I have a dual Xeon rig, normally both at 3Ghz, but due to the heat I have them at 2.4 right now. It currently is only using around 35-38%, so its obviously not multithreaded, which isn't a big deal for most people, but it doesn't even appear to be maxing out even one processor. It just seems like it may take forever to convert a DVD, but I will see when it finishes.

What kinda of times have you been getting with it?


Heck now it isn't using any CPU resources. It has been at 1% for like 10 minutes.

 

[0roo0roo]

no. degrading the dvd with compression sorta defeats the point of dvd quality+menu+ features. backing up now is imperfect to say the least. split discs or cmopression. neither is a true backup. its premature anyways to worry about the discs. maybe in 5 years when dual layers are cheap easy and fast to burn and your discs could sorta be considered old media and then hd's will be big enough where it doesn't matter. though they are meant to last a long time.

 

[archcommus]

It just seems to make a lot of sense to me to put all of your movies on an HDD on a file server. Heck, you could have TVs in your living room, family room, bedroom, wherever you want, give them all small HTPCs, and access any movie from anywhere in the house without getting off your ass.

Burning them to your own DVD-Rs or putting them on a hard drive is really personal preference. Given that this collection I'm working with is relatively small, I will be putting them all on a hard drive, but I still am not clear as to what format. I know DivX is an option, but the file doesn't need to be that small and that will seriously degrade the quality. For those of you who store DVDs in their true high quality on your HTPC or file server, what format do you use? How can I get all those .vob files into one, uncompressed video file?

 

[archcommus]

Why is this so tough to answer. *bumpage*

 

[Hav0k99]

The Answer: Divx. 6.0 just came out and you can now do menus. The quality is pretty good. I got some of mine with 5.1 audio too

 

[coolred]

How the heck do you convert a DVD to divx 6.0? I downloaded the create bundle, and tried dragging and dropping the vob files into convertor like it says, but it says missing AC3 filter. Where do i get one of those?

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Hav0k99
The Answer: Divx. 6.0 just came out and you can now do menus. The quality is pretty good. I got some of mine with 5.1 audio too

I have been considering that now that it just came out, but let's say you didn't want to lose any quality, or lose less quality. How could you get the .vobs into a video file, and what kind of video file would that be?

 

[archcommus]

And I have to buy software to convert to DivX 6 anyway?

 

[neutralizer]

DVD -> xvid via gknot

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
DVD -> xvid via gknot

DivX too? Or only XviD?

And a way to do it losslessly?

 

[tw1164]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Hav0k99
The Answer: Divx. 6.0 just came out and you can now do menus. The quality is pretty good. I got some of mine with 5.1 audio too

I have been considering that now that it just came out, but let's say you didn't want to lose any quality, or lose less quality. How could you get the .vobs into a video file, and what kind of video file would that be?

if you don't want a loss of quality, just keep the isos on you hd, and mount them w/ daemon

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: tw1164

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Hav0k99
The Answer: Divx. 6.0 just came out and you can now do menus. The quality is pretty good. I got some of mine with 5.1 audio too

I have been considering that now that it just came out, but let's say you didn't want to lose any quality, or lose less quality. How could you get the .vobs into a video file, and what kind of video file would that be?

if you don't want a loss of quality, just keep the isos on you hd, and mount them w/ daemon

Yeah that's appearing to be the only way. I expected the input of many people who keep DVDs on their HTPCs but those people don't seem to be around.

Well in any case, if that's what I'll do, I create the ISOs with Decrypter?

 

[MustISO]

Well in any case, if that's what I'll do, I create the ISOs with Decrypter?

Yep, DVDDecrypter for the ISO's if you want the whole disc. DVDShrink if you want just the movie (and use 0 compression). You can create ISO's with shrink as well.

Personally I would leave them in file format (.vob,.ifo,etc).

 

[Safeway]

HDD most def.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: MustISO

Well in any case, if that's what I'll do, I create the ISOs with Decrypter?

Yep, DVDDecrypter for the ISO's if you want the whole disc. DVDShrink if you want just the movie (and use 0 compression). You can create ISO's with shrink as well.

Personally I would leave them in file format (.vob,.ifo,etc).

Why? If you leave them as .vobs you must play like five to ten different files to watch just one movie.

 

[TechnoPro]

I rip the DVD to an ISO using DVD Decrypter. Mount with Daemon Tools and then play. At a later time, I use DVD Shrink to strip out all other content so that it's just the main movie with the best audio. No compression. This saves space and I like being able to just start a movie on demand, not have to navigate through a menu or watch previews.