[mythtv-users] placing the DVD player far, far away

Greg Kutzbach greg.kutzbach at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 23:49:52 UTC 2007


GO to sly soft's website. They have a great package that will rip
anything. It only runs on windows though. I have always been able to
rip it.

On 1/31/07, Bill <Bill at explosivo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:14:05 -0600
> Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> > Yan Seiner wrote:
> > > Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > >
> > >> You really can't cross the room to change the DVD? Yikes.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > It's aesthetic more than anything.  Right now my mytbox sits in a
> > > closet.  We've moved furniture around, so there's no really nice place
> > > to put a DVD player by the TV.  The TV itself hangs on the wall.
> > >
> > > I can put it in the closet on the high shelf (actually that's where it
> > > is) and then someone has to either call Dad or get a stool to stick a
> > > DVD in, or I can run a USB cable to the rear speakers and stick the
> > > player there....
> > >
> > > And yes, I have a shiny new 1 TB server that will see its share of
> > > ripped DVDs, but I still don't want to be called every time one of my
> > > kids wants to watch Pokemon.....
> > >
> > >
> > While it may pain you, you can rip Pokemon too.  I've just about done
> > away with DVDs in my house for convenience and safety.  If the kids want
> > to watch they know to go to MythVideo for DVDs.  No worrying about them
> > breaking the DVD either.
>
> I've started doing this to my collection, but have found some newer dvd's
> resist this.
>
> May be stuck with a DVD player for a bit...
>
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