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Automatic recognition of DVD/BD directory tries
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 8:12 amby kot
Some movies in my online collection are straight directory-dumps of the DVDs. Each individual .VOB file is listed separately by Serviio...
I'd think, it would be more useful for the server to recognize the VIDEO_TS directory as special and create the equivalent of pressing "Play Movie" on the DVD's menu on the fly automatically. If the DVD contains multiple audio options, it would be nice to see the same movie listed multiple times -- so that the desired audio-track can be picked using the TV's remote.
BlueRay's may be more complicated, but DVDs are fairly well-known, aren't they?
Re: Automatic recognition of DVD/BD directory tries
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Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:59 pmby BigDog
Hi,
FWIW - I second kot on the "Play Movie" option.
Thank you,
BD
Re: Automatic recognition of DVD/BD directory tries
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Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:57 pmby Cerberus
kot wrote:Some movies in my online collection are straight directory-dumps of the DVDs. Each individual .VOB file is listed separately by Serviio...
I'd think, it would be more useful for the server to recognize the VIDEO_TS directory as special and create the equivalent of pressing "Play Movie" on the DVD's menu on the fly automatically. If the DVD contains multiple audio options, it would be nice to see the same movie listed multiple times -- so that the desired audio-track can be picked using the TV's remote.
BlueRay's may be more complicated, but DVDs are fairly well-known, aren't they?
why would you want to have dvd dumps on your harddrive when you can convert them to xvid and have them take up a fraction of the space..
Re: Automatic recognition of DVD/BD directory tries
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:48 amby BigDog
Cerberus wrote:kot wrote:Some movies in my online collection are straight directory-dumps of the DVDs. Each individual .VOB file is listed separately by Serviio...
I'd think, it would be more useful for the server to recognize the VIDEO_TS directory as special and create the equivalent of pressing "Play Movie" on the DVD's menu on the fly automatically. If the DVD contains multiple audio options, it would be nice to see the same movie listed multiple times -- so that the desired audio-track can be picked using the TV's remote.
BlueRay's may be more complicated, but DVDs are fairly well-known, aren't they?
why would you want to have dvd dumps on your harddrive when you can convert them to xvid and have them take up a fraction of the space..
I used to convert everything to DivX, then I lost everything due to a bad drive. With my kid's iPods, I already have to convert their movies to MP4's. I'd just rather not have to convert to every format known to man to support different devices. Maybe there is an easier way to go about it or a more universally excepted compressed format like what MP3 is to music. For now, I'm fine with ripping the main movie to disk.
Re: Automatic recognition of DVD/BD directory tries
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:35 pmby Cerberus
you could convert tham all to MP4 but the quality would suffer.
Re: Automatic recognition of DVD/BD directory tries
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Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:58 pmby kot
Cerberus wrote:why would you want to have dvd dumps on your harddrive when you can convert them to xvid and have them take up a fraction of the space..
Space is not really a problem for me (not yet, anyway). Having a DVD dump will allow me to burn the DVD anew, should the original get destroyed...
Re: Automatic recognition of DVD/BD directory tries
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Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:01 pmby Cerberus
still make no sense to me but ah well each to his own i guess.