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 1RbdGd-00039b-9Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:16:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFB7521C286; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D4D21C044 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:15:14 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,364,1320624000"; d="scan'208";a="577291229" Received: from 213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 16 Dec 2011 19:15:12 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [192.168.1.102]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675C3A9A2E for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:14:40 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups From: Stroller In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:15:12 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Archives-Salt: fa53df92-0ccf-4ba2-8c1f-a134200d8aec X-Archives-Hash: 117b1b547c3882c640a5a5a7a8de4df7 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.