BrolicBeast's Living Room Theater - Page 50

I use 10 WD Green 3TBs and have never had an issue with them. 4 of em are connected to a usb2.0 enclosure! Wouldn't recommend greens though if you are doing raid ( I just use jbod)

Brolic,

Before continuing to rip your media, I would highly recommend that you experiment with one file only until you figure out which method and software works best for the procedure you want to follow for ripping. This can include full chapters, special features, language tracks, subtitles, etc. The reason my remux files are typically smaller at 20-30GB per file is because I only care about the bare bones material and audio track (sometimes the commentary track). I usually discard the foreign language subtitles/audiotracks, features, etc. My friend and I were discussing this same strategy of trial and error this past weekend after demo'ing some new remux files. It may sound like a lot of work, but it's best to perfect this method now on this one file than import 300 bad files only to find out they all have a glitch somewhere.

When there is a reference movie that has a lot of material that I know I will love, say Prometheus, I will keep that on bluray and have a bare bones rip at 12GBs for backup. The other caveat is that I am still experimenting with 3D rips. While I have not spent too much time with this, I find the media playback of a 3D rip (or remux) appears upconverted and less natural than the actual bluray. These are primarily the blurays that I buy these days to keep in my collection.

Good stuff on your server and really good stuff on your speakers. Looking forward to seeing them and hearing you thoughts on them. I assume we will get a video from you when you have them all setup . Your rack is your equipment room right? Did you have anything in mind?

I know. These kind of moves take time. It's good to get a nice equipment rack to show off the gear. I would be interested in which one you choose.

So by custom you mean one that you will build yourself?

Hey man take your time on those legacy's its going to be an amazing speaker purchase and combined with the seatons for looks and sound have me anticipating the unboxing vid !! I truly understand the rack upgrade as you know I just did one but more for being able to handle all these heavy items and I have extra shelves for future but my plans in the future are to bring it out of the closet into the open so looks will become a factor then for sure.

Kudos there Brolic. Does the case allow you to expand your storage in the future? I've been looking at doing something similar to get my BD/DVD collection in order, but I want everything in full format (menus, subs, commentary etc.) I like the idea of the Backblaze server that was mentioned earlier in your thread; seems simple enough to create.

I was just very curious to see if the Pq and Aq suffered once ripped. Any movie would suffice but that has been holding me back. I was told that it did and was told that it didn't.

PQ wouldn't suffer persay from the rip. Playing it back is where the change in PQ happens, ie yuv -->rgb--> yuv and such. AQ is exactly the same if you set your computer to bit stream.

No, it does not. YCbCr is converted to RGB before it hits the external VP, inside the graphics card. But YCbCr gets converted to RGB inside your TV/PJ anyway for processing, so it doesn`t matter who decodes them (the decoding algorithms and math are defined in a standard called BT.701, and the implementation is the same across all devices following the standard) . YCbCr (the colors-space used in HD material, namely Blu Ray) is nothing more than a was of encoding RGB information to a format that takes up less bandwidth , that`s the reason why it is used in the first place.

You can force the output to YCbCr on most graphics cards if you want, but as far as i know it will only result in a double conversion, YCbCr -> RGB (in the internal VPU of the GPU) -> YCbCr (output of the GPU), so it doesn`t make much sense.
Edited by GreenEyez - 2/6/13 at 4:47am

That will be cool. I have the Grand Prix Monaco audio rack. Looks funky but is a fine rack and does the job well.

Let's just leave it at that . I am sure the new equipment rack you are getting will be a nice one.

Yup, and it`s BT.709 not 701, i was actually thinking about the old BT.601 standard for SD content.. And it also depends on the software used, some software reads the correct tags for the color-space in the video stream (like MadVR (what J.River uses for rendering)) or XBMC or Windows Media Player, others like Flash for both Windows and Mac act weird, using BT.601 for HD video and 709 for HD content, which means you aren`t getting the correct colors

Wait, why go the HTPC (pain in the backside)route? I thought the OPPO played Ripped ISO's

This is the one I moved right to for the important gear and I bought another "regular" rack for the other gear once I realized my wall unit was a big problem.

I always knew the PC converts it (rounding errors occur as I was informed) but never knew the TV also converts it. Looks like I learn something new here everyday