Making my DVD collection digital
Discussion
I have all of my Blueray backups sitting on a usbHDD attaached to my raspberry pi NAS
and a 2nd raspberry pi to play the content on my TV, using Kodi / XBMC
I unfortunately dont have the processing horsepower to run plex with all of its multi platform transcoding goodness.
but i have minidlna server running on the main raspberry pi house NAS server, so the play-station and other assorted devices can stream from it too.
the main issue with using the pi as the server is the 10base-t network adapter. this can become overwhelmed if your source file has toooo high of a bitrate.
and a 2nd raspberry pi to play the content on my TV, using Kodi / XBMC
I unfortunately dont have the processing horsepower to run plex with all of its multi platform transcoding goodness.
but i have minidlna server running on the main raspberry pi house NAS server, so the play-station and other assorted devices can stream from it too.
the main issue with using the pi as the server is the 10base-t network adapter. this can become overwhelmed if your source file has toooo high of a bitrate.
GCH said:
Have started doing this...
Ripping to MKV on an old XP desktop is fine and doesn't take long.
Converting to MP4 however.....wow. I can start it, come back 12hrs later and it still isn't finished - that is for one movie.
I just use this http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/ Takes about 10 minutes to rip a film from a DVD so I can put it on my ipod touch. The ipod is 64GB so even with all my music I can carry about 15-20 films on it. Ripping to MKV on an old XP desktop is fine and doesn't take long.
Converting to MP4 however.....wow. I can start it, come back 12hrs later and it still isn't finished - that is for one movie.
GCH said:
Have started doing this...
Ripping to MKV on an old XP desktop is fine and doesn't take long.
Converting to MP4 however.....wow. I can start it, come back 12hrs later and it still isn't finished - that is for one movie.
you need something a bit more powerful. .Ripping to MKV on an old XP desktop is fine and doesn't take long.
Converting to MP4 however.....wow. I can start it, come back 12hrs later and it still isn't finished - that is for one movie.
My two machines one i5 and the other a six core amd can do it in about 10mins per movie.
Road2Ruin said:
you need something a bit more powerful. .
My two machines one i5 and the other a six core amd can do it in about 10mins per movie.
Gotcha. Its not the slowest in the world, but nor is it a recent model. It rips a MKV in about 13 mins. My two machines one i5 and the other a six core amd can do it in about 10mins per movie.
I have all but abandoned PC though....I am literally just using it for ripping music and DVDs and nothing else now. I wasn't really intending on buying another.
Macbook air gets very hot when doing it on that, so not keen on killing that!
Cotty said:
I just use this http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/ Takes about 10 minutes to rip a film from a DVD so I can put it on my ipod touch. The ipod is 64GB so even with all my music I can carry about 15-20 films on it.
Thanks. Will check it out.Cotty said:
GCH said:
Have started doing this...
Ripping to MKV on an old XP desktop is fine and doesn't take long.
Converting to MP4 however.....wow. I can start it, come back 12hrs later and it still isn't finished - that is for one movie.
I just use this http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/ Takes about 10 minutes to rip a film from a DVD so I can put it on my ipod touch. The ipod is 64GB so even with all my music I can carry about 15-20 films on it. Ripping to MKV on an old XP desktop is fine and doesn't take long.
Converting to MP4 however.....wow. I can start it, come back 12hrs later and it still isn't finished - that is for one movie.
It is most certainly quicker than ripping to MKV then converting to Mp4, but still pretty slow.
It is a P4 2.93Ghz with a couple of gb of RAM, so I guess probably being eligible for its bus pass in PC terms is the cause of the slowness.
Reluctant to buy another/new PC just for this (I literally don't use them now and am trying to abandon windows for good) so I guess I am resigned to doing it slowly now...
Thanks for the suggestion
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