Re: Sony BDP-S550's - built in LAN and Java!

["Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:

>
> The only downside about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD ripping is that
the "rips" are
> about 40 damn gig and unlike CloneDVD which allows you to get rid
of all the
> bits that you don't want you're stuck with ripping everything which
kinda
> gets you back to the stage I was at a few years ago when I was
ripping 5Gb
> of DVD movies to the biggest drives I could get at the time
(160Gb) ...
> *sigh* ... just when I's started to get used to whacking 180 full
bitrate
> movies on a 1Tb drive!
>

I'm taking a longer view of it this time round.  By the time my DVD
collection had grown to a significant size, large hard drives were
available, and all the time spent reformatting and shrinking movies
turned out to be a wasted effort.  Why bother spending 30 hours re-
encoding each movie when you can fit them all on a couple of drives
now?  Seagate already offer a 1.5Tb drive, and 2Tb drives are coming
next year.

With HD, I've decided to keep the original streams intact - after
all, the point of going HD is for the quality, so reducing the bit-
rate is madness.

I do still reduce the footprint of each film by storing only the main
feature - most Blu-Ray disks have the entire film in one m2ts file,
and TSMuxer can strip out the unwanted audio and subtitle streams in
just a few minutes.  Most of my HD movies end up around 20Gb after
this.

The only tricky ones are the HDDVD movies, because PowerDVD has
dropped HDDVD playback, and Nero Showtime no longer supports HDDVD or
BluRay.

Eac3to can join the two .evob files that make the main feature, and
at the same time stick the video into an mkv file that then be muxed
with your chosen audio stream and played back with Media Player
Classic.  In fact, I use MPC-HC (plus the CCCP codec pack) for all my
movie playback, and it works brilliantly, even allowing you to play
streams (such as subtitles) that happen to be in the same folder
without requiring them to be muxed into the container first.

Mal







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