Software and Hardware for my DVD collection.

[smitbret]

20 minutes a rip minimum x 200 =66 hours.

1TB possible, backing up 66 hours work is required, so 2 1TB drives. All for what? Now you are missing bonus features if you ripped only the film, and you could have watched 30 films in that time alone. Backing up/ripping dvd is like backing up your vhs collection at this point.

Really, this crap again? Let it die, already. Of the hundreds or thousands of DVDs I've watched, the deleted scenes from the 40-Year-Old Virgin are the only extras I have ever watched. In fact, 90% of the people I know would just prefer that you pop the DVD in the player and have the movie just start...... You know, that's a lot like what would happen if you ripped and compressed your DVD collection to a HDD and served it up across the network. Not only that, but then I could just jump onto my TV and thumb through a menu instead of having to go upstairs or downstairs and dig out the DVD and then go back upstairs or downstairs, put it in the DVD player, wait till it loads, read the FBI warning, wait till the main menu loads, skip to the next menu, FFW through 3 trailers, select 'play movie', watch the FBI warning again... fuck I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Not only that, but I would have that convenience on every TV or PC in my house...... Hell, I could just about dump every DVD player in the house cuz even the TVs nowadays support DLNA.

As far as software, my preferences:

Mezzmo $30
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TVersity Free
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Twonky $20
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PS3 Media Server Free
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way down there
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Nero Home $40

A lot of it depends on what you're streaming to and what you want it to do. I can go into details of each if you let me know your goals. If you get a dedicated NAS, then I think you can skip the streaming software part.

 

[TheVrolok]

I know I said I was lazy, but damn, now I'm getting the itch to start backing up my DVD collection.

 

[Patranus]

I know I said I was lazy, but damn, now I'm getting the itch to start backing up my DVD collection.

Do it.

Your lazyness will be rewarded when you don't have to getup to put in a movie.

 

[0roo0roo]

Really, this crap again? Let it die, already. Of the hundreds or thousands of DVDs I've watched, the deleted scenes from the 40-Year-Old Virgin are the only extras I have ever watched. In fact, 90% of the people I know would just prefer that you pop the DVD in the player and have the movie just start...... You know, that's a lot like what would happen if you ripped and compressed your DVD collection to a HDD and served it up across the network. Not only that, but then I could just jump onto my TV and thumb through a menu instead of having to go upstairs or downstairs and dig out the DVD and then go back upstairs or downstairs, put it in the DVD player, wait till it loads, read the FBI warning, wait till the main menu loads, skip to the next menu, FFW through 3 trailers, select 'play movie', watch the FBI warning again... fuck I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Not only that, but I would have that convenience on every TV or PC in my house...... Hell, I could just about dump every DVD player in the house cuz even the TVs nowadays support DLNA.

As far as software, my preferences:

Mezzmo $30
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TVersity Free
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Twonky $20
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PS3 Media Server Free
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way down there
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Nero Home $40

A lot of it depends on what you're streaming to and what you want it to do. I can go into details of each if you let me know your goals. If you get a dedicated NAS, then I think you can skip the streaming software part.

just laying down the facts, you watch what? 1 movie a day?..if that? you save no time at all by doing all this work.

 

[TheVrolok]

just laying down the facts, you watch what? 1 movie a day?..if that? you save no time at all by doing all this work.

There are benefits aside from simply not having to get up to put a disc in

 

[smitbret]

There are benefits aside from simply not having to get up to put a disc in

He was too busy going upstairs and rifling through his box full of DVDs to find his "Blazing Zippers" DVD, coming back downstairs, putting it in the DVD player, reading the FBI warning, watching two trailers, loading the Main Menu, Selecting "Play Movie", watching three more trailers, loading the sub-menu, selecting "Watch the Extended Version", waiting for it to load, watching the FBI Warning again, seeing his movie stutter and skip, ejecting the DVD, examining it and noticing that it had crap on it, breathing on it, gently wiping the crap off of it with his ketchup stained sleeve, reloading the DVD and repeating the whole process and didn't have time to read my post. Oh and he had to watch all of the extras, too. I don't know why he doesn't just get everything on VHS in the first place.