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

[ckd]

Third choice: 800GB RAID-0 and just accept that if you have a drive failure, you have a lot of re-ripping to do. (It's an option.)

[brad]

I thought of that and immediately discared the idea. :-)

Plus once you have 800GB at your disposal, it'd become too tempting too put non-re-rippable content there, then a drive failure would really suck.

[ydna]

I'm working on a similar project (starting at about 1.3TB with room for 7TB) for my video collection. But I'm planning to ditch the menus, etc. as fast as I can. I want to be able to jump right into the opening scene of an episode or film and not go through the bullshit warnings and forced previews found on some titles. Of course, this will mean building my own index into the VOBs to get the right playback. But once it's set, I can write some simple randomizer that will pick something I like that I haven't seen in a while. "Computer, entertain me, for I am bored." And then Flash Gordon will start. Fer zample. But yeah, ripping without transcoding is definitely the way to go.

[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.