Re: Networked NAS Drives for Serving DVDs?

["tonytofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the info

Am just playing with the output on my current server, to see how it
looks

My matrix switch is composite only, is the composite output (needs
adaptor i think) on the mini mac any good please?

Thanks
Tony

>
> > I think i'll stick with ISO format if i can, it's so quick to rip
> > these and that's more important to me than the disk space i think
>
> I use CloneDVD & AnyDVD and rip my DVDs to VIDEO_TS folders and
*.IFO, *.VOB
> and *.BUP files...
>
> > Phil, do you use a particular firewire drive make with the mac
mini
> > please?
>
> I use some 8 bay firewire to IDE cases that I got from a company
called
> SpecialTech but their website appears offline at the moment - I
hope they
> haven't gone titsup.com because they were *BLOODY* nice people to
deal with!
>
> > I assume the drive gets formatted in a way that allows > 4gb
files?
>
> Just a standard MacOS HFS journaled format...
>
> > I know nothing about macs, so it's all new to me!
>
> Lovely things and the firewire support for hard discs on them just
works -
> unlike Windows and Linux!
>
> Phil
>