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Two questions about DVD ripping (legality & presentation)
Chu
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Hey all, two questions. The first one is probably REAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY obvious, and I'm just ignorant, but here go my two questions:
1.) Is it illegal to rip a DVD to my hard drive? I don't plan to make a profit (or share at all, really), I'd just like some of my movie collection on my hard drive. I don't know if there's a line between distribution or w/e or if it's just illegal full stop to brute through the copy guard (with any of the numerous programs designed to do so). If this is illegal I'll probably repurchase a few of my favorite films through an online distribution thing, I guess. I hope it's legal, tho'. Halp.
2.) Once I have my DVDs on my local hard drive (either as .isos or .avis or whatever), I'd like a program that will allow me to sort through (and present) the collection in a graphical, organized fashion. Something sort of like 'coverflow view' on iTunes, but with the option for different categories (movies, TV shows, specials, etc.), and preferably the ability to set a custom photo/video as the 'icon' for each file. I'm sure something like this exists, in fact I've seen it before when someone was showcasing an HTPC, but I don't know what the software was called (or what the different software options are).
Thanks.
1.) Is it illegal to rip a DVD to my hard drive? I don't plan to make a profit (or share at all, really), I'd just like some of my movie collection on my hard drive. I don't know if there's a line between distribution or w/e or if it's just illegal full stop to brute through the copy guard (with any of the numerous programs designed to do so). If this is illegal I'll probably repurchase a few of my favorite films through an online distribution thing, I guess. I hope it's legal, tho'. Halp.
2.) Once I have my DVDs on my local hard drive (either as .isos or .avis or whatever), I'd like a program that will allow me to sort through (and present) the collection in a graphical, organized fashion. Something sort of like 'coverflow view' on iTunes, but with the option for different categories (movies, TV shows, specials, etc.), and preferably the ability to set a custom photo/video as the 'icon' for each file. I'm sure something like this exists, in fact I've seen it before when someone was showcasing an HTPC, but I don't know what the software was called (or what the different software options are).
Thanks.
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I'll poke around for some options. So far Google gave me 'Meedio' so I'll give that a look.
i'm sure there are cheaper alternatives though
http://www.mymovies.dk/
That should be all you really need.... I used this method to get MCE before I got Vista Ultimate, worked quite well, the second link is a movie organizer that connects to a database online to pull proper info, even generates things like my the movie link in my sig...
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I'm not sure of the exact hardware yet (this is all in the planning stages). It'll probably be a single monitor thing... basically I invite a few people over in front of the boob tube, and I can hand them them the remote and they can easily see, graphically, all my music/video etc on my TV and choose what to play.
to rip a dvd, get a tool like dvd decrypter or dvd shrink, either of those will rip most dvds on the market, for any pesky ones that don't work with those tools, you can use 'anydvd' in conjunction with either of those and that gets about 99.99% of them.
now that the dvd is ripped to your computer as files in a folder (not an iso)
use a program called autogk. this will convert the dvd to an avi file, autogk is very simple, you set the file size and the compression method, and it does the rest. it's possibly to rip television series on dvd using this method. but i recommend using the batch file found here http://forum.videohelp.com/topic301015.html
it really simplifies ripping tv shows. (i've done a good 20 or so tv show discs with this particular method and it works great)
average file size for a movie is about 700megs to 1gb, ideally you should be doing a certain number of megs per minute that way you have consistent video quality across your movies, but i have not bothered looking it up so all of mine are 1gb. tv shows are 175megs for a half hour show, 350megs for an hour show.