[mythtv-users] Many new dvd's not working

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Sun Jul 11 16:25:52 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 09:09:42AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Sunday, July 11, 2010 08:42:33 am Alan Murrell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On the other hand, a colleague of mine who is much more knowledgeable
> > about multimedia, etc. has always recommended just doing a full disc rip
> > to the PVR backend (whether MythTV or something else), as disk space is
> > so cheap these days and the movie (complete with menus, feature, etc.)
> > would be available from any frontend you have.  Personally, I am not
> > sure it is necessary to do *full* disc rips; I am usually just happy
> > with the movie itself.
> 
> With few exceptions, I generally just want the movie. Most of the "bonus" material is worthless, and the menu just wastes 
> my time. Some of the menus are difficult to find the "cursor" on (like the smoking cigar on some Groucho Marx disks), causing 
> me to have to solve a rebus to figure out what's happening.
> 
> Ripping the main title to h264 in an MKV container saves a lot of space, due to better compression and no fluff. Granted 
> disk space is cheap, but it's surprising how fast a 1 TB drive can fill up.
> 
> I never want to watch "scenes", but I can see where some people might want to do so.
> 
> An exception I can think of is some disks where the initial menu allows you to select the subtitle language. Apollo 13 in 
> Hebrew was interesting :-)

    You don't need the entire disk for this though. You can just rip the PS
and not repackage it into another container. You can keep the audio and video
in it's original condition and even keep the n+1 language and subtitle tracks.

    Bond films are also interesting in this respect. They have all sort of 
alternate language audio tracks.

    You can cycle through the subtitle and audio tracks with a good video 
player. You just need to have the relevant controls mapped to something on
your remote.


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