Hi All,
I've recently done a bit of an overhaul of our home IT to have the following setup
Mac Mini 2011 i7 in the Lounge with an external Superdrive
3TB Time Capsule for storage and network access
1TB External Drive plugged into the Time Capsule to offer 'mirror' of key Time Capsule folders (Documents and Photos)
Apple TV 2 in the Bedroom to stream iTunes purchases and library
32GB iPad2 with camera kit for mobile downloads off our SLR and for watching films/whatever when we go anywhere.
Macbook Pro for all other stuffs.
The Apple TV 2 is currently patched to the latest level, and I'm trying to work out the best way to deal with our close to 400 DVD's.
Ideally, we would like to put them all, importantly with subtitles due to my wife's hearing (or rather lack of at times!), onto the time capsule in some sort of method so that when we go away we can chuck them on the iPad2, and when we are at home, watch on the ATV2.
In my eyes, the best option is to chuck them therefore into itunes.
Is there a way to do this that will keep all the film details (dvd cover, synopsis etc)? Importantly, we have a fair few TV boxsets like 24 which we also want to put on there...
Is the best option to just use Handbrake and do it that way (How will itunes deal with the importing of the TV Shows? Will it know which is episode 1/2/3 or series 1/2/3 etc?
I know my other option is XBMC, so I'd be interested to know if I do this what my options for software would be on the iPad to watch these when we go anywhere...
Thanks in advance !
I've recently done a bit of an overhaul of our home IT to have the following setup
Mac Mini 2011 i7 in the Lounge with an external Superdrive
3TB Time Capsule for storage and network access
1TB External Drive plugged into the Time Capsule to offer 'mirror' of key Time Capsule folders (Documents and Photos)
Apple TV 2 in the Bedroom to stream iTunes purchases and library
32GB iPad2 with camera kit for mobile downloads off our SLR and for watching films/whatever when we go anywhere.
Macbook Pro for all other stuffs.
The Apple TV 2 is currently patched to the latest level, and I'm trying to work out the best way to deal with our close to 400 DVD's.
Ideally, we would like to put them all, importantly with subtitles due to my wife's hearing (or rather lack of at times!), onto the time capsule in some sort of method so that when we go away we can chuck them on the iPad2, and when we are at home, watch on the ATV2.
In my eyes, the best option is to chuck them therefore into itunes.
Is there a way to do this that will keep all the film details (dvd cover, synopsis etc)? Importantly, we have a fair few TV boxsets like 24 which we also want to put on there...
Is the best option to just use Handbrake and do it that way (How will itunes deal with the importing of the TV Shows? Will it know which is episode 1/2/3 or series 1/2/3 etc?
I know my other option is XBMC, so I'd be interested to know if I do this what my options for software would be on the iPad to watch these when we go anywhere...
Thanks in advance !