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wraith808:
I guess I could... the only problem with this (and the others I've seen on the web) is that a lot of this is player specific. Even though I have my setup done... I have three other devices that can't work with the setup I have. There's so much out there in the way of hardware and software that it just changes too fast. I think the others sort of ignore that X factor, and speak as if their way is the correct way, when the correct way is actually what works for you. :)
Oh... and if you want an idea of how big mine actually is- this is mine as of 5 years ago.
http://invelos.com/DVDCollection.aspx/wraith808
I've slowed down since then, and just got tired of entering DVDs into DVD Profiler. :)
4wd:
Best solution for a media server would be simple JBOD - just turns any old bunch of disks into one apparently enormous disk.
-Carol Haynes (December 03, 2012, 10:25 AM)
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Just been wondering what to do about all my media files spread over 3 HDDs, was thinking of drive pooling, (including JBOD), but there are no free ones that suited, (Liquesce can't share).
Ended up doing simple junction points on the server...now a 250GB HDD apparently holds 4.5TB of files. Saves a bit of navigation from the media player.
wraith808:
Ended up doing simple junction points on the server...now a 250GB HDD apparently holds 4.5TB of files. Saves a bit of navigation from the media player.
-4wd (December 04, 2012, 12:03 AM)
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That's actually a very cool idea! I'd not thought about using junctions, even though they've been very useful to me in the past. I've been bitten by having one volume before- things spread among disks, and the controller failing, and not being able to get another controller to work with the array, so losing everything on all the disks, because of not knowing where things are. Not sure if it's better these days- but once bitten, twice shy.
tslim:
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?)
-tslim (December 03, 2012, 07:36 AM)
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1. All players don't support mounting ISOs. MKV is the format that I chose that works on everything I want to use it for.
2. I'm not encoding it- I'm transcoding it (and that should be mpeg2, not mp4). There is a small difference in size because MakeMKV strips out the extraneous information. But it's not compressed.
3. There's also a difference in size because I don't get audio and subtitle tracks I don't need. I only speak English, so I don't need spanish, chinese, etc... this lets me do that.
4. I don't have the menus- in fact, I don't want them. I just want to click a file and it start playing.
-wraith808 (December 03, 2012, 01:28 PM)
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I don't know about the "transcoding" of movie, my main concern is to store my DVD movies as original as possible. Particularly when I have a DTS movie, no matter how hard I try to convert it from VOB format (I have tried various formats), I always find loss of DTS quality and I finally decide to store the original image of the DVD.
wraith808:
I don't know about the "transcoding" of movie, my main concern is to store my DVD movies as original as possible. Particularly when I have a DTS movie, no matter how hard I try to convert it from VOB format (I have tried various formats), I always find loss of DTS quality and I finally decide to store the original image of the DVD.
-tslim (December 04, 2012, 08:46 AM)
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from Wikipediaw
Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital data conversion of one encoding to another,[1] such as for movie data files or audio files. This is usually done in cases where a target device (or workflow) does not support the format or has limited storage capacity that mandates a reduced file size,[1] or to convert incompatible or obsolete data to a better-supported or modern format. Transcoding can be performed just while files are being searched, as well as for presentation. For example, Cineon and DPX files have been widely used as a common format for digital cinema, but the data size of a two-hour movie is about 8 terabytes (TB).[1] That large size can increase the cost and difficulty of handling movie files. However, transcoding into a JPEG2000 lossless format has better compression performance than other lossless coding technologies, and in many cases, JPEG2000 can compress images to half-size.[1]
Transcoding is commonly a lossy process, introducing generation loss; however, transcoding can be lossless if the input is losslessly compressed and the output is either losslessly compressed or uncompressed.[1] The process of lossy-to-lossy transcoding introduces varying degrees of generation loss. In other cases, the transcoding of lossy to lossless or uncompressed is technically a lossless conversion because no information is lost, however the process is irreversible and is more suitably known as destructive.
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As I'm using lossless transcoding, it is a direct digital-to-digital translation, moving the mpeg2 file from the DVD to the MKV container.
An ISOw is much the same thing - it is a container that represents an image of a file system. You seem to be getting hung up on the container, and equating it to lossy encoding. I'm copying the files I need from one container to another, as the other container is better for my workflow. I don't care about being able to recreate the DVD in it's entirety; if I decide to archive the films, it won't be on optical media in any case, and for the ones I really care about, I'm keeping the optical media intact.
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