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Perhaps a downloadable version of the tutorial for offline reading, then?

Sure, if that would help then I'll get a .pdf version knocked up during the week.

Corazon de Leon

I've literally just begun the process of ripping my DVDs to my Mac and it's going to take literally weeks! It'll all be worth it when I sell 200+ DVDs for cash, but even still. Bloody hell. DVD no. 1 is City of God, only another 3 hours to go! :lol:

Corazon de Leon wrote:I've literally just begun the process of ripping my DVDs to my Mac and it's going to take literally weeks! It'll all be worth it when I sell 200+ DVDs for cash, but even still. Bloody hell. DVD no. 1 is City of God, only another 3 hours to go!

Rip them all with Mac the Ripper, then you can queue them in handbreak so you can leave them over night. Well, over several nights. 200 is going to take a while.

Corazon de Leon

That's not a growth wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:I've literally just begun the process of ripping my DVDs to my Mac and it's going to take literally weeks! It'll all be worth it when I sell 200+ DVDs for cash, but even still. Bloody hell. DVD no. 1 is City of God, only another 3 hours to go!

Rip them all with Mac the Ripper, then you can queue them in handbreak so you can leave them over night. Well, over several nights. 200 is going to take a while.

TNAG, legend. What's Mac The Ripper?

Basically copies a DVD to your HDD so it's a folder, but everything intact inside. So, if you wanted, you could drag this folder into DVD Player and it would play with menus and everything. But since each rip takes about 20-30 mins, if you do enough and leave handbreak going overnight it will be worthwhile in the long run.

Give me 5 mins, I can't find a link for the version I've got so I'm going to test a crack I just found for the newest version.

Corazon de Leon

Ah that sounds excellent, nice one. :wub:

Right, this should do it. It's got instructions on how to crack it inside, and as far as I can tell works a treat. It doesn't like scratched discs though, for that you might want to try fairmount.

Getting there I think. My re-rip of Megamind and Despicable Me seems to be reasonable quality-wise and at 900 meg apiece, thats an agreeable reduction in size over the .VOB version. I think I can quite easily integrate the commentary into the rips, but i'm not sure how to handle the subtitles.

I'm not too fussed about slightly bigger rips since they're intended for personal use, and since I'm keeping the original disks, I can always rerip them if need be.

TheTurnipKing wrote:Getting there I think. My re-rip of Megamind and Despicable Me seems to be reasonable quality-wise and at 900 meg apiece, thats an agreeable reduction in size over the .VOB version. I think I can quite easily integrate the commentary into the rips, but i'm not sure how to handle the subtitles.

I'm not too fussed about slightly bigger rips since they're intended for personal use, and since I'm keeping the original disks, I can always rerip them if need be.

I think the playback GUI program that I use has the option to collect subtitles itself. I'll check that out for you. It's not something I've ever done personally.

Blimey, XBMC is a bit good, isn't it?

TheTurnipKing wrote:Blimey, XBMC is a bit good, isn't it?

What version are you running? Are you running the Linux version or are you running it from Windows?

Drunken_Master wrote:
TheTurnipKing wrote:Blimey, XBMC is a bit good, isn't it?

What version are you running? Are you running the Linux version or are you running it from Windows?

Windows just now. I've not really used it before, and wanted to get comfortable with it before trying to set it up elsewhere.

Most likely I'll be using the Linux version when I try putting it in other rooms. Is there much difference?

TheTurnipKing wrote:
Drunken_Master wrote:
TheTurnipKing wrote:Blimey, XBMC is a bit good, isn't it?

What version are you running? Are you running the Linux version or are you running it from Windows?

Windows just now. I've not really used it before, and wanted to get comfortable with it before trying to set it up elsewhere.

Most likely I'll be using the Linux version when I try putting it in other rooms. Is there much difference?

Not really. However if you're currently running through Windows, Boxee is better. Personally speaking, I still run XBMC through my XBOX 1.

Drunken_Master wrote:I still run XBMC through my XBOX 1.

I presume you're running a really old version of XBMC, then.

TheTurnipKing wrote:Blimey, XBMC is a bit good, isn't it?

It's even better when you use a custom skin. Right now I'm using Alaska Revisited:

Delusibeta wrote:
Drunken_Master wrote:I still run XBMC through my XBOX 1.

I presume you're running a really old version of XBMC, then.

XBMC for Xbox is still being developed.

systematic wrote:
TheTurnipKing wrote:Blimey, XBMC is a bit good, isn't it?

It's even better when you use a custom skin. Right now I'm using Alaska Revisited:

Delusibeta wrote:
Drunken_Master wrote:I still run XBMC through my XBOX 1.

I presume you're running a really old version of XBMC, then.

XBMC for Xbox is still being developed.

Aye. I'm running XBMC 3.0.1, and very good it is too. Although it was a pain in the ass to try and get Youtube working properly.

Drunken_Master wrote:
systematic wrote:
TheTurnipKing wrote:Blimey, XBMC is a bit good, isn't it?

It's even better when you use a custom skin. Right now I'm using Alaska Revisited:

Delusibeta wrote:
Drunken_Master wrote:I still run XBMC through my XBOX 1.

I presume you're running a really old version of XBMC, then.

XBMC for Xbox is still being developed.

Aye. I'm running XBMC 3.0.1, and very good it is too. Although it was a pain in the ass to try and get Youtube working properly.

That was the only thing I COULD get working properly at first in the latest build initially, though I think I've got the hang of building the media library now. :lol:

skin is JX720. I ran through a few of them looking for one that had a media seek bar AND mouse support, and this was the first I found. Might not be my final choice

Having a mouse isn't a big issue for the final install.

It's pretty awesome, though: Exactly what I wanted as a companion to my media NAS box. Rich media information taken from the internet, so I can search by titles, year of release, actors. All that good stuff. While still having the media itself stored in an easy to manipulate (or indeed, watch) form by my PC over the network.

So much nicer than basic samba shares or even UPNP.

If anybody is looking a cheap media PC, Ebuyer have the following PC on sale for £149.99

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/267867

AMD Dual Core Neo processor
Nvidia 9200 graphics card with HDMI.

Whack on XBMC and you've got your good to go. It's going to be alot faster than the Atom based ones.

Also emachines is Acer.

Oh, nice. I was looking at the Linux based Revo's just last night, too, as a kind of long-term playback solution.

But better hardware and a lower price is a difficult combination to resist.

A friend also suggested that you can install XBMC on a jailbroken Apple TV, which at around £100 is at least worthy of consideration, though I can't be having any truck with an Apple device, even one so cunningly subverted

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