DVD Central store

Slinwagh · 15 May 2007 at 10:43

My little girl 3, has a mass of DVD's and she is now starting to want to change the DVD herself which means her sticky paws all around some expensive kit! It can be be a blag at times when she has had enough of each DVD after 10 minutes and we have to constantly change DVD's

My plan would be to use the XBox 360 via the media connect as the player and one of my servers as for the storage.

Storage and networking isn't an issue its just ripping the DVD's in a format that will work with the above and staying legal.

HEADRAT · 15 May 2007 at 11:45

Slinwagh said:
and staying legal.

There is no way to do what you want "legally", it will mean "ripping" the DVD's and as such you would be technically "breaking the law" as you are circumventing the copy protection.

I do exactly what you've described with MCE2005 acting as the "server" and Xbox360 and other MCE (Vista) clients, yes I'm going straight to hell for breaking the law

See thread

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17684247&highlight=headrat+dvd

I currently have 200+ DVD online.

There are other "Media Portals" but they won't work with the Xbox360 as an extender.

HEADRAT

Slinwagh · 15 May 2007 at 12:18

Looks like Im going to hell too!!

What do you use to put the DVD's on your MCE server?

HEADRAT · 15 May 2007 at 12:21

DVD Shrink to a single VOB then use:-

http://www.videoredo.com/

to fix the VOB to MPEG2!

VOB2MPEG would probaly do it as well:-

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOB2MPG

this is if you wan't to use the Xbox360 as an extender, the 360 will play single vob files but it can hang sometimes, no such problem if you convert them to MPEG2.

HEADRAT

Slinwagh · 15 May 2007 at 12:34

HEADRAT said:
DVD Shrink to a single VOB then use:-

http://www.videoredo.com/

to fix the VOB to MPEG2!

VOB2MPEG would probably do it as well:-

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOB2MPG

this is if you want to use the Xbox360 as an extender, the 360 will play single vob files but it can hang sometimes, no such problem if you convert them to MPEG2.

HEADRAT

I don't mind converting them as long as nothing is lost due to compression.

HEADRAT · 15 May 2007 at 12:40

Nope the video is intact and there is no "re-encoding", it just fixes the file structure, with DVD Shrink there is an option for "no compression".

There are obviously many many ways to skin the same cat

For me MCE2005 as a server for Xbox360's and other clients is just the best option IMHO.

HEADRAT