Storing DVD/BR

[lupi]

I'd like to avoid having any more disc damaged by the younger crowd, so looking to store some movies on the computer. For playing it will be via 360 acting as a WMC extender.

Question is, what format should I use to copy the movies to make sure they can play using this method? Most of the info I've seen on this has been about getting biggest size reduction or streaming it to a pc or other similar device so that is not as useful for knowledge in this particular instance. Anyone already gone down this route?

 

[smitbret]

This link:

http://www.infobarrel.com/Supported_Video_Formats_for_Streaming_to_Xbox_360

Supports most of my knowledge about Xbox 360 playback. I think using it as a WMC Extender may broaden its capabilities, though.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/system/audio-video-playback

Your video can come out pretty good, but unless you go .wmv (blech!), your audio choices will probably be limited.

I'd probably just run them through Handbrake with an RF of 18 and go 720p instead of 1080p unless your TV is bigger than 50".

 

[Charlie98]

I've encoded all mine into M4v... IMO it's a decent balance between size and playback quality, and works very well with WMC. BDs still take quite a bit of space, so plan accordingly if you have a bunch.

I've kind of gotten away from BDs... I found they are not very durable... so I can see your justification. Be aware, you will need some CPU horsepower to reencode all that video...

 

[lupi]

The MS link has xbox through WMC as only wmv or mpg2.

 

[SMOGZINN]

You could encode it in high quality and then use Plex to stream it to the WMC extender in what ever format it can handle.

 

[smitbret]

You could encode it in high quality and then use Plex to stream it to the WMC extender in what ever format it can handle.

That's how I would attack this. The Xbox 360 is about as bad a local playback device as you can get.

 

[lupi]

Again, I'm not looking to play things on small portablee devices or convert over my entire library, just get some stuff up for kids to use. So the latest and greatest compression transcoding isn't needed, just something stable.