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Title: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: Rman on April 02, 2008, 06:50:43 PM
I'm in the process of ripping my DVD collection, although it's anemic compared to other EBers. A friend of mine has a media server set up with over 500 movies and a good amount of TV series.  I was over his home and I was so fun just selecting movies, pausing, choosing other movies or tv shows on the fly.  None of this changing discs bs?  It was an ADDers wet dream.  Have any of you guys ripped your DVD collections to a media server set up.  I know XBMC was a great standard def option as well.
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: TVC15 on April 02, 2008, 07:08:20 PM
I'm in the process of ripping my DVD collection, although it's anemic compared to other EBers. A friend of mine has a media server set up with over 500 movies and a good amount of TV series.  I was over his home and I was so fun just selecting movies, pausing, choosing other movies or tv shows on the fly.  None of this changing discs bs?  It was an ADDers wet dream.  Have any of you guys ripped your DVD collections to a media server set up.  I know XBMC was a great standard def option as well.

If I am ripping a scene from a movie for youtube/animated gif purposes, I usually just keep the entire rip of the thing.  I don't systematically rip everything, though I am debating ripping my whole HD-DVD collection just so I can never deal with that drive again.
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 02, 2008, 07:14:36 PM
is there a method which doesn't take forever when ripping to xvid/divx?
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: TVC15 on April 02, 2008, 07:16:57 PM
is there a method which doesn't take forever when ripping to xvid/divx?

Not really.  I use my MacBook Pro to do it, so I still have my main desktop computer free.  It's part of the reason I keep a ripped copy once I go to the trouble--I don't have to sit through the process again.
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: CajoleJuice on April 02, 2008, 07:24:34 PM
I'm in the process of ripping my DVD collection, although it's anemic compared to other EBers. A friend of mine has a media server set up with over 500 movies and a good amount of TV series.  I was over his home and I was so fun just selecting movies, pausing, choosing other movies or tv shows on the fly.  None of this changing discs bs?  It was an ADDers wet dream.  Have any of you guys ripped your DVD collections to a media server set up.  I know XBMC was a great standard def option as well.

If I am ripping a scene from a movie for youtube/animated gif purposes, I usually just keep the entire rip of the thing.

I would save them, but I need more hard drive space.

Anyway, I have definitely thought of this. Streaming TV shows with my 360 is so awesome.
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: TVC15 on April 02, 2008, 07:28:57 PM
Invest in some terabyte drives, newb
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: Rman on April 02, 2008, 08:18:21 PM
Yeah, the process is slow, Eel.  Handbrake is a decent program for ripping DVD.
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 02, 2008, 09:43:10 PM
thanks, i'll check it out
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: Solo on April 03, 2008, 12:09:51 AM
Nope. I just pull whatever off the shelf and watch it, the old fashioned way, be it DVD, HD DVD, or BD.
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: Powerslave on April 03, 2008, 07:11:17 AM
How much is the size of an average DVD film when you rip it?
Title: Re: Do you guys rip your DVD collections for your media center setup?
Post by: Rman on April 03, 2008, 09:42:28 AM
PS, just like ripping music the program you use lets you determine the file size.  For a full length DVD, I have averaged from 900 mb to 1500mb for a good quality rip--audio and video.