I have been cleaning up my DVD collection and converting several to MP4 so
I can stream them over my home network.
DVD drives always seem to me a bit sensitive and temperamental and VLC
always seems unhappy about playing them. I have been looking at Blu Ray >drives and they seem to range in price form £85 to £300 from what I've
seen so far.
Any suggestions for a make/model robust enough to read/play anything
that's chucked at it without getting into a hissy fit?
In terms of DVD rips and burns, I've never had any issues using an
external USB slimline optical from Lite-on. Using either xfburn;
dvdbackup, vobcopy (now obsolete) or DVDfab as above.
On 23/03/2024 in message <2j0tvi9da30t5qoso1bk6ruf1beujusin0@4ax.com>
Sump wrote:
In terms of DVD rips and burns, I've never had any issues using an
external USB slimline optical from Lite-on. Using either xfburn;
dvdbackup, vobcopy (now obsolete) or DVDfab as above.
Many thanks for all the advice!
On win 10 the best option seems to be:
AnyDVD
https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html
with
MakeMKV
https://www.makemkv.com/
MakeMKV does work on its own but just seems smoother with the help of
AnyDVD. I think the quality is better than mp4 but that's just a
subjective judgement. It also finds the chapters so I have separate
files for each episode, the other method I tried only produced one file
for the disk and then only seemed to have the first episode, anyway fine
now.
Only problem I have found is one of the DVDs has an extra file, it
should only have 2 episodes but has found 3!
I'm OK for disk space but copying them over the network from the working machine to my main machine is a killer!
I've ordered the Asus BW-16D1HT, it's on its way.
As part of my trying to make life easier I decided that I would use a
spare PC next to the HiFi cabinet and plug it into the only unused HDMI
port on the AV Receiver and control it via RDP. Unbuilt the study,
rebuilt the lounge and, of course, realised that although you can output
the sound from the remote PC the picture is on the machine you are controlling it with. There must be a way round but playing these videos
via the Roku is much easier. Oh, Mellow Magic is coming through on the
AV receiver 100% now. I emailed Yamaha and they replied by return saying
they would check via their radio service supplier, nothing heard since
but a couple of day later it perked up enormously.
All good fun :-)
Oh, Mellow Magic is coming through on the
AV receiver 100% now. I emailed Yamaha and they replied by return saying
they would check via their radio service supplier, nothing heard since
but a couple of day later it perked up enormously.
Oh, Mellow Magic is coming through on the AV receiver 100% now. I emailed >>Yamaha and they replied by return saying they would check via their radio >>service supplier, nothing heard since but a couple of day later it perked >>up enormously.
Maybe I an a cynical old git but Yamaha will presumably be paying
royalties to the service provider for the "privilege" of hosting the radio >stations.
Perhaps Yamaha or the service provider may have degraded the service in
order to find out if anyone would notice......
no complaints, means either Yamaha can pay less for fewer radio services
or the service provider can make more profit by quietly dropping the
degraded radio stations that Yamaha are paying for?
MakeMKV does work on its own but just seems smoother with the help of
AnyDVD. I think the quality is better than mp4 but that's just a
subjective judgement. It also finds the chapters so I have separate files
for each episode, the other method I tried only produced one file for the >disk and then only seemed to have the first episode, anyway fine now.
I've ordered the Asus BW-16D1HT, it's on its way.
On 24 Mar 2024 15:54:10 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
MakeMKV does work on its own but just seems smoother with the help of >>AnyDVD. I think the quality is better than mp4 but that's just a
subjective judgement. It also finds the chapters so I have separate files >>for each episode, the other method I tried only produced one file for the >>disk and then only seemed to have the first episode, anyway fine now.
Yes, MakeMKV is an extractor and image creator (MKV), very much like handbrake (Usually MP4)... It isn't a DVD or Bluray verbatim copier.
So for each title - you'll get a new file. And I think (?) that by default they both just pick the largest title time wise - presuming that would be the main film etc.
e.g. Handbrake: an example DVD containing 4 episodes, you'll have to queue up the four DVD titles with 4 unique output filenames.
DVDfab will copy the disc file structure, either DVD or Bluray, but newer discs (later protections) are only supported on the paid version.
I'll have a look at AnyDVD.
I've ordered the Asus BW-16D1HT, it's on its way.
Excellent, update us all if you ever decide to flash the drive with "libredrive" firmware for 4K blurays. I can't afford the space, given that 4K can be up to a 4 layer BDrom at 128GB..
I'm OK for disk space but copying them over the network from the working >machine to my main machine is a killer!
I've ordered the Asus BW-16D1HT, it's on its way.
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