Re: Basic questions about "video streaming"

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Phil

Thanks for the pointer. I'll give that a spin this afternoon and see if I
can then get popcorn hour to play the Isos instead of the video_FS folders.

Noted on not deleting source files - ouch. I think I have only got about
150 DVDs anyway!

Richard

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
> > Phil
> >
> > Could I ask you how you converted to ISO from Video_ts stucture?
>
> You can...
>
> > I've ripped all my DVDs to video_ts and have been experiencing
probs in
> > getting various players (including and especially Popcorn Hour)
to play
> > these containers back.
> >
> > It would be great if there is a simple batch or even relatively
quick
> > way of 'recontainering' these dvd files to iso without having to
re-
> > rip.  As you sem to have a vast dvd collection I'm guessing you
didn't
> > re-rip everything???
>
> Feck no! At the time there were about 800 movies to convert and
re-ripping
> them from the originals would have taken far too long (plus, if you
head
> back through the archives here when I was originally looking at using
> FireWire drives in Software RAID on a LINUX box as my
"server" and was
> having trouble with the FireWire drivers "being shite" I
muttered something
> about "I'm never re-ripping all these feckin' things ever
again" and fully
> intend to stick with that principle...
>
> When I moved over to Windows Home Server and lost the ability to do my
own
> fettling of exactly where (on which disc) my data was stored I was
concerned
> that, because I wasn't going to be running Software RAID or having
folder
> duplication turned on for the movies shares, then if WHS happened to
put all
> the .IFO files from the folder structures on one drive (quite possible
if it
> had bits of space to fill up that a big ol' VOB file wouldn't fit
into) and
> that drive went down then not only would I lose the movies on that
drive but
> effectively I'd lose all the movies that the IFO files on that drive
related
> to. (You see what I mean?)
>
> Anyway - I found a bit of software called "ImgBurn"
> (http://www.imgburn.com/) which can be
used from the command line and wrote
> a little wrapper batch file to read the names of each folder on a
drive one
> at a time and then call ImgBurn to create an ISO of that folder.
>
> Helpful hint - don't do what I did and be cocky and make your batch
file
> delete the source folder as it converts and then run it without
testing it
> first ... I did that and batch converted my first drive (Movies
starting
> with 0-9, A or B) but got the command line a bit wrong, converted each
> folder to an ISO that had the same name each time, ended up with a 1Tb
drive
> with lots and lots of free space and a single file called
"Moviename.ISO"
> containing a beautifully ISO'd image of "Butterfly Effect 2,
The"... :-D
>
> 150(ish) movies into the great bit-bucket in the sky. Still re-ripping
them
> back again slowly. :-(
>
> > I also agree with AnyDVD - absolutely vital for decrypting dvds. 
I
> > haven't had any problems since switching to this.
>
> Yup - I know you can do it for free with other apps but life is just
too
> short to spend it fannying about ... AnyDVD and CloneDVD just work!
:-D
>
> Phil
>




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