Re: dvd jukebox PC

[Mick <stuck@xxxxxxxx>]

have a look here

http://www.charmedquark.com/

Can do a lot more than what you are asking about, but is an excellent program.
I have been playing with it for about 6 months now and the response from the
author is great (no not me either)

Mick

nospam@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to put together a PC to store and playback all of my DVDs (I
> currently have less than 100 of them). That's going to take around 400-800
> GB of storage, which is not a problem.
>
> My idea is to use this PC as an alterative to a DVD changer. Rather than
> having a changer that has to manually load and swap disks, they would all
> be stored on the PC's hard drive, providing much faster access and less
> moving parts.
>
> My question is -- what type of software platform would be appropriate? I'm
> not looking for PVR-like functionality (no need to record or manage TV
> shows); I just want something that I can place my DVD collection on. I see
> that mythtv and freevo (both linux-based solutions) have modules for
> playing collections of videos. There's also Windows XP Media Center. I
> would prefer something that's at least half-ass reliable, and this would
> lead me away from XP which (in my experience) crashes at the slighest
> provocation.
>
> The hardware that I have to use for this is a 2.4 Ghz PC with a Radeon
> 9000 card with TV output, and motherboard sound (including coax-digital
> sound output). I can throw together a RAID for storing the video.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations and/or has anyone in this group setup
> something like this before?
>
> Thanks!
>
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