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Post by melm on May 13, 2020 10:00:05 GMT -5
DVD Fab works well for ripping all Blu-rays. They have software to rip 4K movies as well but I have not tried it. There's a nice solution from Zappiti, which is a video server with slick software. It can take 1 or 2 large internal hard drives, rip your music to it, it catalogs them and has a nice display with info about the movie, artwork etc.
Yes, you can build something, but the Zappiti is a pretty inexpensive solution. You can get mini players and attach them to other TVs around the house, and they can see your movie collection on the main Zappiti. If you are playing Blu-rays tho, you'll want a good home network. Its very reliable, and new features get added regularly.
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Post by cburbs on May 13, 2020 11:02:21 GMT -5
Here is my suggestion. OS - Have him look into unraid - unraid.net/. Just make sure you get a good ripping device for Makemkv. DVD Ripping - Makemkv Playback - Plex The above two can be run as a Docker on unraid server. I have been running Unraid for 7+ years and just like the true flexibility of it. Can have different size drives(Parity has to be same size as largest drive in the array), Run VMs on it for testing stuff, Lost of options for software run as a docker. Just to make sure it has enough cores/memory to handle what you want to run on it. My setup - Unraid - Version: 6.8.3 M/B: ASRock X99 Extreme3 Version CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2658 V3 ES QEYF 2.0Ghz 12Core 30M Equivalent to QEYP Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 (max. installable capacity 256 GiB) 15 TB Total Array Size 9.28 TB 62% Total Space Used Virtual MachinesLinux (Hassio) Windows 8 for testing stuff. DockersMakemkv Logitech Media Server Plex Basically can watch a movie with any TV setup that has plex app running which is all the TVs in our house since they have a Roku, Xbox, Nvidia Shield connected to them. I also run HDhome run tuners and use Plex to record my OTA tv shows for the family for my DVR.
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Post by simpleman68 on May 13, 2020 11:33:00 GMT -5
A great point; I'd be happy to rip just the movie without all the extras. I almost never watch those and could always slap in the physical disc if so desired. Still, I'm guessing that much storage is pricey? Scott
Can you just get up, get the disc out and put it in the player....lol.. Probably what I'll wind up doing. lol Scott
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Post by simpleman68 on May 13, 2020 11:35:01 GMT -5
So Scott, what are your goals? If it's to make it easier to start a movie, I think that the time to do all of the RIP'ing and the cost/complexity of the equipment might make the calculus bad ... f it's to reduce the sale that all the BluRays and 4K titles take up in their boxes, etc., you could do what I've done and put all of the disks in giant "CD Wallets" (320 Disks/Book) and create a simple Spread Sheet alphabetized by Title showing which (Book, Slot) each is in. I've thrown away all of the boxes because I don't have storage space, but if you do, you could save them somewhere else. Casey I plan on hanging on to the physical discs, I just want them in digital storage as well.
It may be better to hold on for a few years until the tech becomes better/more affordable/easier etc.
I like owning movies and not having to depend on some streaming service to have the movies I want to watch. Particularly down the road when players become obsolete. Scott
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Post by drtrey3 on May 13, 2020 11:43:43 GMT -5
The thing I like about my Plex server is that my family in Florida and North Carolina can use it to look at photos, movies, and music that is stored at my home. Makemkv is great, works most of the time, Handbrake will make the files smaller. And the majority of the process is mashing some buttons and coming back in an hour. But it is nice to share the library with family, they enjoy it a lot.
Trey
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Post by cburbs on May 13, 2020 12:39:06 GMT -5
I only have one actual dvd player left in my house. It's some old samsung dvd player. I'm not sure it even gets used. I stream all my movies and music from my server.
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Post by brubacca on May 13, 2020 15:48:48 GMT -5
I've got to be honest and say this is/was a royal pain in the tuckus.
I tried to do this. It really just didn't work out well. First I ripped the Blue Rays. Then I converted them for ease of use with my Firetv devices (so they didn't have to do any work). It took hours for this on my i5 computer. Then I installed Kodi on my Fire TV.
Nobody used it. Then Kodi would break on my Fire TV and its a pain to install.
People would say just use Pled which wad promising, but at the time the plex app wouldn't do subtitles on the Fire TV (app problem).
For me it just became this giant pain in the a$$ that nobody cared about. So I stopped.
Ideally if you could just rip ISO from the disc itself and have a program that would respect forced subtitles like in Black Panther when they are speaking Wakandan. Maybe a purpose built computer would work, but a couple years ago plex and Fire TV not a good fit.
Although I really liked Plex except the problem (that may be resolved now).
I used MakeMKV and Handbrake.
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Post by cburbs on May 14, 2020 7:55:35 GMT -5
That is a good note on what type of device you are using for playback and which software(plex, emby, kodi, etc). I will say Plex works with the Rokus & Shield no problem in my setup.
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