DVD ripping

[brad]

I realized having all my DVDs (some ~250) ripped and available on the network from any computer/TV is very feasible.

I'm using vobcopy with --mirror, no transcoding. Then I can still have bonus features and menus and all that. VideoLAN is cool in that it can play a VIDEO_TS directory directly, as if it were a raw DVD

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[tijuanacartel]

VLC supports SAP/RTP, allowing you to multicast stream your DVDs as they play to anything on your lan. Clients can flick between streams like they are flicking through channels I've seen this working, and it's uber cool. http://www.videolan.org/streaming/... )

[brad]

Heh, you don't have to get me started on vendor "hardware" RAID. If LJ had tags historically you could probably go find a "FUCK $VENDOR" post for every one of them.

I'm all about the software RAID.

And I do value my ripping time! Maybe if I had an auto-disc changer I could preload when time came to re-rip, but I don't.

[tijuanacartel]

I once asked myself: Realistically: how often am I going to watch this in the next year? Nothing scored more than one. Not even How to operate your brain scored 2.

This revelation lead me to never again waste space storing movies and tv series on raid. The aforementioned rule of data valuation applies. If you REALLY get the urge to watch something, you can get it on Netflix.

Of course I dont have 250 dvds. If you haven't watched them yet, then having them network accessible is an advantage, and not having to rerip is a definate advantage. Personally, only stuff that is incredibly rare and cool lives on my raid, e.g Colossus and Be somebody.

[ucc_journal]

So why aren't you using LVM? pvmove is awesome.

[brad]

Where did I say I didn't? Why can't my LVM PVs be MD devices?