Hi, this is my first post on these forums and I'm not even sure this is the right place for it. I have been considering building an HTPC/DVR box to replace my cable dvr and play media all over the house. I have been getting some great info from Assassin's guide on the build and Greeneyez for setting up 7MC. I've been playing around in 7MC on my main PC to get familiar with it before building the dedicated box and am ready to try ripping a couple DVDs to see how it all looks in mediabrowser. I have been searching around on google and in these forums for several hours and haven't been able to find out what I want to know.
I want to put my DVDs on the HDD in original quality with no more compression than they already have. Now I know I can just do a copy folder structure or make an .iso and I will do that if I have to. Space is not an issue, but I'd like to remove the stuff I'll never use like French and Spanish tracks, trailers, FBI warnings. On the other hand, I would like the keep the menu, commentary tracks, and selected special features. Is this possible? I can see it being a problem with the menu if there are things missing that the menu expects to see. If I do have to lose the menus, do I put the special features in the same folder as the main movie? Will there be metadata for them? How do I know which files to keep if the filenames are just title/chapter numbers? Do the ripping programs let you play the files from within them so you know what to include or exclude?
Sorry to be so longwinded, and if these questions are already answered somewhere else, just point me in the right direction.
Thanks so much,
Jon
I want to put my DVDs on the HDD in original quality with no more compression than they already have. Now I know I can just do a copy folder structure or make an .iso and I will do that if I have to. Space is not an issue, but I'd like to remove the stuff I'll never use like French and Spanish tracks, trailers, FBI warnings. On the other hand, I would like the keep the menu, commentary tracks, and selected special features. Is this possible? I can see it being a problem with the menu if there are things missing that the menu expects to see. If I do have to lose the menus, do I put the special features in the same folder as the main movie? Will there be metadata for them? How do I know which files to keep if the filenames are just title/chapter numbers? Do the ripping programs let you play the files from within them so you know what to include or exclude?
Sorry to be so longwinded, and if these questions are already answered somewhere else, just point me in the right direction.
Thanks so much,
Jon