From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rbe2v-0005wU-3o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:06:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 237B621C182; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16DD21C162 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faaa5 with SMTP id a5so3827927faa.40 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:04:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=9D+Wrr0w55KJyewxpAXuBNhquE6RntRBOcT+6Ywp3ck=; b=J7UuviwTeBvjGvLnfU2khmY5J1Td0++YY/ellPfaCY3k4Nh0H6Twr4+SAT39iRjzm1 xpS2dxBPxTnDZI5BN3rrUF7ELh9XTGLjYfVu2H7RCYz0GcBDPP/Z3g6+2OxUJyGMh/ym 1oX/ItAPJCMHQ/3sljnTt1w41/iIPGw/audg4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.18.233 with SMTP id z9mr14720316wid.0.1324065881245; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:04:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.160.73 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:04:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:04:41 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a3bad94c-ea70-4230-8b38-b44cff839c1f X-Archives-Hash: e8862e6863bf82bb613b96b442eb120f On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: >> ... >> I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more >> about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K >> investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep the ripped >> version here to watch on the computer, and store the DVDs elsewhere, >> but that elimiates (generally) being able to watch special features >> which my wife and kid enjoy. > > I've been down this path fairly extensively. > > Use media-video/dvdbackup and mkisofs (from app-cdr/cdrtools) to create .iso images of your DVDs. > > Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen TV. > > These players allow you to treat .iso files on the network just as if they were actual DVDs and give you full access to the menus and extra features. > > I'm in the process of trying media-tv/xbmc instead - I believe it handles menus, but haven't got far enough to test that (I just got video sorted on my HTPC, now working on sound). > > dvdbackup will fail on a small number of DVDs which have been "copy-protected" by making them non-compliant with the DVD specification (IMO this is fixable in dvdbackup's code), but I'm getting at least a 95% success rate. > > I have found writing dual-layer DVDs practically impossible. The failure rate is way too high - even disks which burned "successfully" are unreadable on another PC / player. > > Stroller. > > Interesting info. Thanks. My new TV actually has a number of USB ports and I've managed to mount a USB disk with mp4 files created by Handbrake and play them just fine. I hadn't considered trying an iso file though. I'll give that a shot this weekend and see if it sees them. Unfortunately *.iso isn't on their recognized formats list, but it's worth a try. The nice thing about the TV is that it has lots of Open Source software built in and puts of nice folders showing the directories I've created and all the files in each directory. I'm currently experimenting with how much I can tolerate in terms of compressing the DVD info. I'll certainly look into dvdbackup. I tried to emerge it but I've gotten some sort of package block going on that portage isn't happy about. Thanks, Mark