Do you rename ripped DVD folders? And folders vs. ISOs?

i was ripping to folders, but then they wont play on the xbox, so i converted them all mpgs.

i was going to rip to mkv but but mkv does work either on the xbox.

i it was just a htpc playing them id stick to folder and use the plain media to play them, all the other players can add crap that degrades the video IMO.

I rip to folders and try to name the folder something like "Movie Name_Year". I use the Moving Pictures plugin for Media Portal and that seems to be the best way for the metadata to be located and downloaded.

I rip to a video_ts folder. The video_ts folder is kept inside a folder that I rename to something more appropriate. I name the folder when I'm ripping with DVD shrink. I usually use the exact title of the movie because my frontend defaults to using the name of that folder as the movie title if it cannot find any metadata for it. I use metabrowser for grabbing metadata and that uses the name of the folder when searching for the data. Sometimes I'll add the year at the end so it's easier for metabrowser to find the metadata. I'll do this for movies that have been remade with the same title (e.g. Planet of the Apes).

The only benefit to ripping to a folder vs iso is that it is one less step (mounting the iso) to play it. Considering that you can set things up to automatically mount and play an ISO, that's not that big of a deal for most. I still prefer folders because it's one less thing to worry about and one less program I need install and worry about setting up.


Just about every software movie player will play a video_ts folder. Where you might have problems is when using certain extenders and what not. If you only ever plan on playing the movies on real computers, then you really can't go wrong with either one.

IMHO, ISO's are a bigger pain than Video_TS. I find they take longer to play because they need to be mounted first. I have never seen any advantage of using ISO over Folder for DVD

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I rip them to folder with video_ts and audio_ts inside. If the DVd name looks good in DVDfabdecrypter I use it, otherwise I change it to something that makes sense.

For TV series, I usually name it something like: [Title] S2 D1 (for Season 2, Disc 1, etc.)

I have never found a need for ripping to iso. I've only found various limitations to using .isos.

Unless you are using playback devices that are particularly inflexible such that you need to use .iso (don't know if any HTPC based programs that will accept .iso but won't accept folder structure - usually it is the other way around) the only reason to use .iso is if you have a strange compulsion to keep your shows as individual files, instead of treating the folder as a file.

Fwiw, for blu rays, I'm finding that just ripping the main movie (or each episode in a TV series) straight to a single .m2ts (or .ts) and renaming that makes the most sense for my needs. Blu ray folder structures are just over the top for redundancy.

-Suntan

Does AnyDVD work with folders though? Seems to work great with ISO mounts (outside of a small problem I am having with the mounting part right now), but it seems to not be working on the movies I have ripped to folders. I'm using the trial version right now to determine if I actually want to pony up the money for it.

What specifically are you looking to get out of AnyDVD?

If you are just looking to rip DVDs to your HDD, do yourself a favor and check out DVDfab HD Decryptor.

It has worked on every DVD I've ripped (since the original DVDDecryptor was shut down) without drama.

It also rips Blu rays (although I've only tried a couple so far.)

-Suntan

with windows 7 vobs will play on the xbox extender but it takes a bit of processing on the htpc to stream it up. You access them through video library and then click into the folder and then select the vobs or strict out all the rest and choose play all

I'm looking for the feature that skips to the main menu and ignores all the previews, etc.

Are you looking for this specifically with DVD discs that you play in the disc drive, or to have your DVD rips on your HDD start up without the previews?

DVDfab can trash the previews and other UPOs when it rips the disc (or just rip the main movie track), but as far as actively circumventing UPOs during playback of the original disc, then yes AnyDVD is the program to get for this.

However, many moons ago I used a freeware program called "DVD43" that worked like AnyDVD. It would decrypt the disc on the fly. Might want to see if it is still being kept up. A quick google search would probably tell you.

-Suntan

Both. AnyDVD works great with the ones I have ripped as ISOs as well as actual discs, but I'd like it to work on the ones that I have extracted the folder and files instead of an ISO.


I just don't trust anything that actually alters the content. Too many bad rips, bad encodes, etc. that I finally gave up and just started ripped the whole discs to my drive. I much prefer the AnyDVD method that leaves the file structure intact.


Thanks. I looked at that, but it doesn't look like it is being kept up that well, plus no support for HDDVD/Blu-ray.

I also used to use dvd43, but they stopped updating it for disney discs so I bought anydvd. a quick check seems to indicate that development has continued.

http://dvd43.com/

I use Movie Title (YYYY) for the file naming convention. Personal preference, I rip to ISO's. I just find them easier to work with.

I guess that's primarily due to the fact that I used to convert videos to PSP format (no car, 4-hour daily commute). The tools I used didn't work with VIDEO_TS folders. Now, it's become habit to convert to ISO.

Get DVD Shrink, set it to No Compression, and rip out all the crap you don't want

I tried that a long time ago, but it's been years. I'll give it a shot!