[mythtv-users] Newbie questions: a digital DVD library

Doug Young goofdad at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 22:11:30 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> A quick note on DVD ripping - I rip all my DVDs as single ISO files. It
> makes life much easier when importing / moving files around. I use XBMC for
> playback as I'm not too happy with MythDVD's UI butthat's another discussion
> that's been covered heavily already :-) . DVDfab works well for me, you may
> also want to look into DVD Shrink, Ripit4me and DVD decrypter, all free. If
> a movie won't rip for me in one, usually it will work in another. It's
> getting tougher these days, I still have been unable to rip my copy of The
> Dark Knight and may have to resort to other-methods-that-won't-be-named-here
> to obtain a digital copy.


Funny that... I typically rip all mine to folders because I had
problems (admittedly a couple years ago) getting all my various
players on my windows boxen to play ISO's...YMMV ;-)

In any case, MythVideo does fine either way, and can easily be spread
across multiple disks as well.
-- 
Doug


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