G'day,
I currently use a G4 Mac Mini running FrontRow as my media centre, playing a myriad of AVI file formats residing on a WiFi connected WD 4TB Cloud. It's been a nice little workhorse the past few years, though lack of HD support is getting annoying. Mostly the files it plays are "SD" AVI files - ie nothing more than about 640x480 pixels.
A portion of my AVI library also exists as DVDs in my cupboard, and both for improved image/sound quality, and access to the "extra features" on the DVDs, I'd like to rip them all and store them on the WD Cloud, and view via FrontRow.
From what I've been reading, I see that I can't store them as disk images - they have to be VIDEO_TS folders.
Firstly, are there any ramifications of stripping the VIDEO_TS folders out of the disk images? (I can't think of any... I know DVD Player can play either source... Just looking at all options.)
Secondly, rather than storing the DVDs as VIDEO_TS folders, which means playing each one as an actual DVD, having to navigate menus, etc etc, can something (like Handbrake?) rip the content - without loss - and store as individual files?
Thirdly, and least importantly for now, how do I make previews work? I read on Apple Discussions I think that you just have to put a file called "preview.jpg" into the _TS folder, but I tried that with 1 rip I've already got laying around, and it didn't work...
Just trying to work this out...
Thanks
cosmic
I currently use a G4 Mac Mini running FrontRow as my media centre, playing a myriad of AVI file formats residing on a WiFi connected WD 4TB Cloud. It's been a nice little workhorse the past few years, though lack of HD support is getting annoying. Mostly the files it plays are "SD" AVI files - ie nothing more than about 640x480 pixels.
A portion of my AVI library also exists as DVDs in my cupboard, and both for improved image/sound quality, and access to the "extra features" on the DVDs, I'd like to rip them all and store them on the WD Cloud, and view via FrontRow.
From what I've been reading, I see that I can't store them as disk images - they have to be VIDEO_TS folders.
Firstly, are there any ramifications of stripping the VIDEO_TS folders out of the disk images? (I can't think of any... I know DVD Player can play either source... Just looking at all options.)
Secondly, rather than storing the DVDs as VIDEO_TS folders, which means playing each one as an actual DVD, having to navigate menus, etc etc, can something (like Handbrake?) rip the content - without loss - and store as individual files?
Thirdly, and least importantly for now, how do I make previews work? I read on Apple Discussions I think that you just have to put a file called "preview.jpg" into the _TS folder, but I tried that with 1 rip I've already got laying around, and it didn't work...
Just trying to work this out...
Thanks
cosmic
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