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

[gonzalo diethelm]

> 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.

I have found this to be the case: I can play DVDs ripped to a VIDEO_TS
folder with no problems, with the Internal player and with others.

-- 
Gonzalo Diethelm
DCV - Chile