[mythtv-users] DVD Catalogue ?

[Scott]

On May 5, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Paul <paul at paulhurley.co.uk> wrote:
>> Not to sound sarcastic, but why wouldn't you just rip them to a hard
>> drive..then who cares where they are?  Problem solved?
>
> Thats what I was suggesting in 5. of my email.
>
> The one reason I can think of is the storage required.
>
> * (conservative) average of, say, 5G per DVD.
> * if OP has so many he doesn't know where he has stored each one,
> maybe he has 200 of the things.
> * Thats a TB of storage, which isn't overly expensive these days, but
> it is if you haven't got room for it in your backend.

I'm storing full PURCHASED DVDs on the HDD. It's not hard. AnyDVD  
running in wine does the job just fine. Files are stored to the NFS  
mount where mythvideo keeps the movies. Beyond that, it's just a  
matter of having mythvideo update it's index.

Storage wise, it's more like an avg of 6GB per disk. 4TB of storage is  
cheap these days and will hold a decent size collection.

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Scott


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