Don't care much for optic medium any more. To lazy to change disks in the drive. HD is almos free anyway. Make a 10 TB raid array and enjoy I say
All ripped HD sources can be played now right? Belive I have watched a couple of 720P blueray movies already, but I might have used vlc player when I think about it.
Something strange going on with my sound in MC.
I'm not sure what you mean by HD is almost free. Do you mean downloading ripped and compressed media from torrent sites, or do you mean some of the clearance priced HD-DVD sales to be found these days?
I'm with you on the optical medium. However, my interest in this is that I'd like MC to be able to play the
files associated with HD-DVD/BluRay, so that I can rip them and have them on my media server/MC library. Sure you can download 720p/1080p mkvs. They're great, I'm know, but sometimes you've just
got to have the full bitrate original. And as our HTPCs become capable of decoding the lossless audio formats, it'd be nice to have that ability in files contained within your MC library too.
Also, downloading of copyrighted material isn't legal or morally unobjectionable everywhere or for everyone.
When you say HD is almost free, you've got to figure in storage costs for your media server, fees charged by ISPs for exceeding bandwidth caps. Add to that P2P/torrent-throttling by many ISPs and a cheap, legitimate source of hi-def media is very appealing.
Almost all ripped media can be played these days, but it's nto always easy to configure to do so. I'd like MC to be able to play hiDef media, both from optical and hard disks using directshow filters.