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

Comments

[anonymous]

ditto, i'm afraid curently it would be impossible to remotely view full dvd's unless your hotel AND your house had an DC3 connection or fiber.

i have ~200 full length movies on a 450 gig raid 5 array in the back of the house, a computer sitting next to the entertainment center can play anything on the fileserver straight to the tv, controlled through VNC, but most of the movies are divx rips ~700-1.4 gig apiece. you sacrifice some, including movies and extras, but i never watch those anyway plus my tv is crappy so i can't even notice the difference. (not hdtv)

added benefit tho is that i also have many many tv shows on the raid, all the robot chickens, south parks, futurama's, babylon 5, yadda, and they're all accessible at any time.

i need more storage however, and my goal is a SATA (current raid card is pata) hardware raid card for a raid 5 array of 8 500 gig disks giving 3.5 terabyte, but unfortunately i haven't sold any online blogging communities lately so it'll have to wait a bit ;)

valis

look, man

[slonick]

i duuno - how many people already have told it to you, but: thanks a lot for this unbelievable kind of communication - lj.

transcode in parallel

[epaulson]

I only coded one DVD, and it took 12 hours on a 2.4Ghz P4, so I might be doing it wrong or it might really be that slow.

But - you can transcode in parallel if you need to. Have a second array of your DVDs in the LJ machine room, and borrow some of your memcache nodes on-demand and encode it in on short order.

Or pre-transcode it at home - if you're talking 1TB to store the raw data, why not make it 1.2TB for the raw data and a transcoded version. Then, in 6 months when there's a different format, just dump your transcoded versions and re-encode in the new format.

[iamjosh]

Buy a sling box, and buy the D-Link MediaLounge Wireless HD Media Player DSM-520 use the sling box to on the fly encode the video / audio.

I currently have the media lounge hooked to just over 2T of DVDs, TV Shows, & Misc Video.

-josh

[hoankiem]

Hey Brad, I'd say a dual core Athlon64 X2 3800+ should be more than enough. Plus you'd be getting two physical CPUs, which helps a lot if the codec/encoder/decoder/transcoder supports it. Also it's a safety net since all new CPUs will be pretty much either dual core (AMD Athlon64 X2, Intel Core Duo) or multi-chip packages (Intel Pentium D

[brad]

You run a RAID over IDE channels with two drives on a channel? You're not afraid of a double drive failure?

[hoankiem]

Nope, I don't run my RAID-5 that way; I run it through an ARC-1230 (http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pciE-sata.htm... )