Rip & Play Full DVD ISOs

[ccsnet]

I was reading the Home server thread and I had a thought.... ( bearing in mind I have no idea if MHS will do this any way ).

In all likleyhood many of us with the coming of MHS will be getting many Terrabytes in the home in the near furture - how can we use this ? Mp3s are didy, downloaded movies are not that big... ok - what about your home DVD collections ?

Well currently you could rip just the movie but that takes for ever ( and not as good quality ) .... what if with GBPVR you could pull the DVD off as a whole ( encripted may be to prevent sharing ) and play it back if selected exactly the same but off the hard disk - eg play the iso.

You'd keep the same quality, all the interactive features but best of all you can use any where.

What do you think, is there any milage in that Sub ?

Terran

[sub]

It already plays full DVD .ISO files (requires daemon tools installed), and combined with the DVD ripper plugin seems to do exactly what you ask for. Or am I missing the point?

I've currently got dozens of DVDs on my network storage.

[ccsnet]

It already plays full DVD .ISO files (requires daemon tools installed), and combined with the DVD ripper plugin seems to do exactly what you ask for. Or am I missing the point?

I've currently got dozens of DVDs on my network storage.

Ok fair enough.... that been said a nice all in one interface would be cool rather than diffrent progs... now your going to tell me there is one of those too so I'm going to stop typing at this point and go search

Was just a thought.

Terran

[sub]

Its all nicely integrated with GB-PVR, and you wont even know any third party apps are involved when using GB-PVR.

DVD playback for .ISO files is actually a really complex thing, and needs to fake the existance of a DVD drive in the PC. It would have been a huge waste of my time to spend ages learning how to write device drivers to fake this etc. That said, if you rip in file mode rather than .ISO mode, then you dont need daemon tools installed for playback.

The DVD ripper plugin was originally written by me, and also fits in nicely with GB-PVR. It depends on DVDDecrypter, again because its complex stuff that would have been a huge was of my time to implement myself when perfectly good free options already existed. Its also illegal to remove the CSS encoding DVD, so wouldnt to risk GB-PVRs future on this.

[ccsnet]

Its also illegal to remove the CSS encoding DVD, so wouldnt to risk GB-PVRs future on this.

Thats why I was thinking ISOs...

Terran

[sub]

I'm fairly sure the programs that make ISO backups of DVDs typically remove the CSS encryption at the same.

I'm not personally against, and do it myself all the time, but I wouldnt want to be the author of a tool distributed with that functionality.

[nightswings]

DVD playback for .ISO files is actually a really complex thing, and needs to fake the existance of a DVD drive in the PC. It would have been a huge waste of my time to spend ages learning how to write device drivers to fake this etc.

Just as a note on this, more recent versions of VLC have the ability to directly access and utilize ISO images including their entire content (menus, etc.) without requiring that they first be pre-allocated in to a virtual image.

I'd love to see this integrated, even using VLC, though I know Sub has something (unknown to me) against VLC creators. If somebody designed a plugin for this type of interaction, that would be awesome.

Nights.

[JavaWiz]

Just as a note on this, more recent versions of VLC have the ability to directly access and utilize ISO images including their entire content (menus, etc.) without requiring that they first be pre-allocated in to a virtual image.

I'd love to see this integrated, even using VLC...
Nights.

If you know what the command line to play this ISO (with menus) is, you should be able to use MovieWiz to launch it from GBPVR.

[sub]

Just as a note on this, more recent versions of VLC have the ability to directly access and utilize ISO images including their entire content (menus, etc.) without requiring that they first be pre-allocated in to a virtual image.

As was explained above, GB-PVR already provides an absolutely seamless solution for playing back DVDs from either the hard drive or ISO files. You get the entire contents including menus etc. I cant really see any need to change the way its currently done - it wouldnt give you anything extra.

I'm a one man project, so were possible I reuse existing software (Daemon Tools in this case) rather than having to write the equivalent functionality myself.

I'd love to see this integrated, even using VLC, though I know Sub has something (unknown to me) against VLC creators.

What do you mean? I dont have anything against VLC. I think its a pretty good tool.

[Deusxmachina]

Well currently you could rip just the movie but that takes for ever ( and not as good quality )

A ripped movie can be in any quality you want.