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General Software Discussion / Re: How 4 Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM
« on: December 03, 2012, 07:36 AM »I have over 1000 DVDs. Keeping track of them and storing them is becoming prohibitive. And I have a living room TV and a TV in the man cave that I watch them on. Add to that the fact that the kids watch on their computers sometimes, and my wife watches them in the bedroom, and having them in one place and accessing them over the network is just more convenient. And I specifically have devices that I don't have to decode them with. There's also no compression; I have them all in MP4 in a MKV container. I'm still working on ripping them all... I've just about filled up 2TB and that's only a quarter of the collection. But it just works for me.-wraith808 (December 02, 2012, 10:30 PM)
I am also storing my DVD collection (much smaller than yours) in a 2 TB HDD.
Just curious, why don't you rip your DVDs and keep them in ISO format (like I do)?
If you convert them into mp4 format, you tend to loss quality, further more what about the DVD startup menu? Are you doing your own authoring work?
May I also ask this, what is the advantage of keeping a movie in mp4 format contained in a mkv file than directly keep it as mp4 file? (Isn't mp4 file sort of container by itself?)