Re: dvd jukebox PC

["IVB" <ivb_2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mick is right on - I just posted a thread about my CQC setup for this.
Check out my personal website, www.myhometheaterpc.com , for details & a
shopping list.


"Mick" <stuck@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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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