I am looking to digitize my massive movie collection. I literally have thousands of movies and I am tired of thumbing through binders to find the disc. I would like to move the whole thing over to my system and then just stream to my TV. I have plenty in place to do the streaming my conundrum is digitizing the movies. I can easily rip it to an iso but for streaming that doesn't do me any good. If I rip just the movie to a video format I lose all the extras but can stream. I want to preserve the menus and extras and still stream. Does anyone know of a way to digitize a dvd and keep all the extras? I am using windows media center for the streaming. I don't particularly like windows media center but I have a 360 and it just makes it easy. So does anyone know or or even if this is possible? Video and streaming is not my thing so I may be asking for the moon. Thanks in advance.
there are plany of programs out there that can read from ISOs so i would rip them straight to ISO (BTW cant think of any off the top of my head other than VLC as i use MKV myself but i know quite a few media centre options can do it head over to XBMC.org to ask around ) however your problem will then come in linking it to the 360 but if your archiving a few 1000 DVDs i would invest in a proper media centre (will probably only set you back ~ £400) also you may want top consider Storage i estimate about 5-6 TB for 1000 DVDs ripped to ISO in which case you may also want to condsider WHS its not cheap to overall your probably looking at an investment of about £1000 to archive all your movies but at £1 a DVD its not that bad really
looks like XBMC can do it fine http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Types_of_Media_Sources personally i would head that way just make sure your folder structure is fine and all should be well
Thank you all for information. I am going to research xbmc and probably go that route. As far as storage that is not really an issue as I have access to hds for pretty cheap through my work connections. Thanks again.
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