Ripping DVD's

[s/v Jedi]

Okay now that we have passed the legal dept. and arrive at the players, it's my turn

Mark is a bit behind with his iPods and video players etc. What you really want is wireless streaming that content directly from your computer (laptop) to the TV or stereo.

For music, good systems are Squeezebox or Sonos. I have the Squeezebox system (now owned by Logitec) but today Sonos might even be a better option. The music player does not store your music like an iPod does... it receives your music over wifi from your laptop, translates it from digital back to high quality (much better than laptop sound card) analog and puts that to your stereo/amplifier.

For TV/Movies, AppleTV is a good candidate. It even allows streaming from an iPhone or iPad if you want (or just show the screen like a presentation mode (big Skype screen ). This is called "AirPlay" mode.

These systems require that you have a standard wifi router to take care of the wireless links. Yes, the same el cheapo used at home works here too. If you're smart, you use an Ubiquity PicoStation M2 for this and link that directly to your Ubiquity Bullet or NanoStation for your Internet link.

ciao!
Nick.

[hellosailor]

Mark-
"If it is illegal to distribute something, how does one get it?"
Look at it this way. In most of the world, you need a special license in order to distribute and sell booze. But you don't need one to drink it, if you've got it.
Same thing here, the US is probably relying on the "comerce clause", i.e. the federal ability to regulate interstate commerce, to prohibit the distribution acts.

Bottom line is that Hollywood paid off too many people, got a facist DMCA passed, and then the voters got po'd about it and our Supreme Court (who sadly don't get paid anything by lobbyists but have to rely on their salaries) creatively interpreted a hole in the law.

Logic has nothing to do with it. If you keep trying to apply logic, you are going to get a headache. And, as Mark Twain said in a slightly different context, "to annoy the pig."

[SV Demeter]

Originally Posted by IslandHopper

Trust me i am no techie, i would not know if what you propose above would work , i just know what works for me....

At home i have a 1.5TB hard drive that lives in the Tv cabinet which plugs into a media player (about the size of a cigarette packet) which plugs into the TV, no need to fire up any computers, the same when i go back to work (at sea), i take a 250 gig USB powered hard drive + media player in a small toilet bag and plug these into the TV in my cabin, again no need for computers.....

I have found using this the easiest, i don't have to worry about bloody formats, file types or decryipting (no idea what it all means anyhow), just rip to the hard drive then plug into the media player/flat screen TV and play, it's that easy...and did i say no computer need for playback....

So to summarise, i use Magic DVD ripper onto Western Digital hard drive, then playback through a Western Digital media player to the TV....

Below is my original post on the subject.....

I downloaded the trial version of Magic DVD ripper and it seems to work fine but I notice it does not save the files with the movie title. Is this just something that the trial version does or do I need to rename the movie files once they are saved to the hard drive?

[IslandHopper]

Originally Posted by SV Demeter

I downloaded the trial version of Magic DVD ripper and it seems to work fine but I notice it does not save the files with the movie title. Is this just something that the trial version does or do I need to rename the movie files once they are saved to the hard drive?

I don't know about the trial version as i have never used it, i just bought the full one, but sometimes you need to type the title in....

With the full version i prefer to type in the title myself just to tidy it up, see in the "Output" and "File Name" boxes in the images below....

From this...


To this....


If you have any more questions just send me a PM if you want...

[hellosailor]

" it does not save the files with the movie title."
You will find that CD's and DVD's sometimes are poorly produced (especially the older ones) and sometimes information is truncated or abbreviated on them. Rippers and copy software sometimes cannot get correct information from the media itself, i.e. I've found two-cd album sets where the album title is different on each CD when they are the same album on the case wrapper.
There are also different requirements for the media file system names (i.e. Joliet and ISO) and different file systems place limits on the characters (spaces versus underlines, file name length, all caps, upper and lower case) and defaults that are used. So if you ever want to figure out what files have been made, it pays to override the software and make sure the filename will make sense to you.

[IslandHopper]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

" it does not save the files with the movie title."
You will find that CD's and DVD's sometimes are poorly produced (especially the older ones) and sometimes information is truncated or abbreviated on them. Rippers and copy software sometimes cannot get correct information from the media itself, i.e. I've found two-cd album sets where the album title is different on each CD when they are the same album on the case wrapper.
There are also different requirements for the media file system names (i.e. Joliet and ISO) and different file systems place limits on the characters (spaces versus underlines, file name length, all caps, upper and lower case) and defaults that are used. So if you ever want to figure out what files have been made, it pays to override the software and make sure the filename will make sense to you.

A far better explanation than i could have given....