RE: Using MCE as a DVD server

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also use DVDDecrypter, but currently, I don't do any post processing
to r=
educe the size - haven't really needed to so far, with a 1.6TB RAID volume
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to store them on... - however, at the rate I'm going, that volume is going
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to be full around October, so perhaps I should look at doing some
shrinking=
!

How easy is it to do, and how much time & effort does it take? - I
presume =
it's a fairly manual process, - every DVD being slightly different & so
on.=
.. - I can't afford to spend a lot of time doing it at the moment,  so
some=
thing I could just point at the VIDEO_TS folder and click "go"
would be gre=
at.. - Plus I get fairly lost with some of the myriad options that seem to
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be available... (I don't know what "stream processing" is!!)

I also don't want to do any (further) compression of the main movie part,
I=
want to retain the original quality. I'd be happy enough to strip out alte=
rnate language soundtracks, FBI warnings, and perhaps some of the extra's
a=
nd so on.

What tools would the group recommend ?

Paul G.


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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Mal Lansell
> Sent: 15 May 2006 16:06
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Using MCE as a DVD server
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> Sounds reasonable.=20
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> I use DVDDecrypter and DVD2One/DVDShrink rather than AnyDVD=20
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> DVD2One lets me shrink the movie down to save a little server=20
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> it a disk with multiple episodes I extract each as it's own=20
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> using DVDShrink instead.
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> MCE will happily play a video_ts folder.
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> I already have a DVD database set up on my intranet.
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> >Having finally got the tuner card installed and working (a
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> genuine DVDs I'm
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> >My Movies 2 to play 'em (via Daemon Tools)
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