How to rip DVDs/Blu-rays and stream to PS3

[prism]

I know I've asked questions similar to this in the past, but I'm still a noob at this whole streaming media malarkey and I'm trying to learn the best way to do it. This is what I have:

-Computer
-PS3
-TVersity
-AnyDVD trial
-CloneDVD trial

I've used TVersity on my PS3 and seem to know what I'm doing. What I'd like to know is if there's any way to rip a DVD to my hard drive as one file, and keep full menu functionality from the DVD. So far with my experimenting, all I've figured out how to do is rip a DVD into its separate chapters into a folder, and once I start one chapter on my PS3 the rest will follow, but I don't have menu functionality. I'd like to keep everything as clean and clutter-free as possible, and if AnyDVD and CloneDVD will help me do this then I'll upgrade to their full versions.

Can anyone walk me through, step-by-step, how to rip a DVD into (hopefully) one, single file, preferably being able to use the menus for the DVD on my PS3?

 

[brotj7]

Im posting from my phone, so this is short. Read up on ripbot 264, it will require reencoding the dvd and there is actually a playstation profile, or u can use anydvd to rip as an iso image. That will require mounting the iso w/software like alcohol 120 to mount/unmount as an iso as though it were a dvd in a dvd drive each time u want 2 watch a movie.

 

[simonizor]

As brotj7 posted, you can use one of your programs to make an ISO of the disc. It's not as complicated as he makes it out to be, though. After you have your ISO image of the disc, you can simply use PS3 Media Server to stream the ISO directly to your PS3 and it should work just as if the DVD were in the PS3.

 

[0roo0roo]

It isn't worth the effort because you will spend a lot of time working around the limitations of the ps3. Esp with bluray. There are some really silly solutions with ps3 where a high end pc is forced to transcode videos on the fly... at that point you shoulda just paid for a htpc so you could rip everything right the first time around.

 

[CZroe]

Streaming an ISO? Srsly?

 

[Emulex]

it's easier to spend $29-49 on a blu-ray for the pc and use anydvd HD to rip the 20-50gb .iso then use virtual clonedrive to mount it and play/stream/whatever it.

ps3 is weak - it can't even do 3D and full bitstream at once due to lack of hdmi 1.4 which a PC with a Geforce 430 can do

 

[simonizor]

Streaming an ISO? Srsly?

Seriously. Try PS3 media server.

 

[sivart]

Seriously. Try PS3 media server.

I've tried this (back when I owned a PS3) and the quality is worse than the same ISO burned to a disc. (Especially noticeable on my 100" screen)

I also agree with the above poster...if you have to have another machine on just to transcode the video, what's the point. Save the electricity and buy / build an HTPC. (Much nicer UI's available, too).

When I tried it it was going from NAS Box --> PC to re-encode --> PS3 to playback.

Now, I just go from NAS Box --> PC to watch

 

[CZroe]

Seriously. Try PS3 media server.

I can't. My PS3 died a little over a week ago. I'm fast-tracking the repairs though because I have two other broken PS3s (+ + ).

Does it really stream the menus? How does it relay the input unless the PS3 was somehow meant to do that? AFAIK, DLNA isn't meant to remote control anything!

 

[CZroe]

I've tried this (back when I owned a PS3) and the quality is worse than the same ISO burned to a disc. (Especially noticeable on my 100" screen)

I also agree with the above poster...if you have to have another machine on just to transcode the video, what's the point. Save the electricity and buy / build an HTPC. (Much nicer UI's available, too).

When I tried it it was going from NAS Box --> PC to re-encode --> PS3 to playback.

Now, I just go from NAS Box --> PC to watch

Probably not using Gigabit. I have enough issues streaming SD over 54mbit WiFi that I usually just DL the content to the drive so I wouldn't attempt to stream a disc without being hard-wired.

 

[sivart]

Probably not using Gigabit. I have enough issues streaming SD over 54mbit WiFi that I usually just DL the content to the drive so I wouldn't attempt to stream a disc without being hard-wired.

Hardwired gigabit is what I have..probably less than a 30 foot run between the devices.