[mythtv-users] DVD library + mythtv, best practices

[Paul Phillips]

I'm putting together my first mythtv box (asus pundit, debian unstable)
initially intending it as a frontend for my library of ripped DVDs.  The
DVDs are in their raw (unencrypted) format on disk, so each has a VIDEO_TS
folder with the original assortment of VOBs and other files.

I just want the myth frontend to be able to call up a list of the movies I
have ripped and play one on demand.  For whatever reason this seems to be
an unusual desire.  I guess everyone else is transcoding their movies into
a single smaller file of some other format? But I don't want to do that, I
have plenty of disk.  All I intend to do (eventually) is snip out the FBI
warnings and other stupidities.

With vlc I have no trouble playing DVDs from the command line with menus
and all by using "vlc dvd:/path/to/dvd/directory" but the myth interface
doesn't seem to like the idea of the directory being the target.  I can
get a big ugly list of the individual vobs but obviously that's a failure.

Am I overlooking a smarter or easier way to accomplish this? I don't mind
converting my DVD folders into something else as long as it's lossless.
What is the standard way to store and serve a library of ripped DVDs?

Thanks,

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