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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: mindracing on October 02, 2003, 05:02:45 am

Title: DVD support
Post by: mindracing on October 02, 2003, 05:02:45 am

Now that I'm getting into the Media Server stuff, is it possible for MC9 to rip/play DVDs?

If so how?

Title: Re: DVD support
Post by: xen-uno on October 02, 2003, 05:42:38 am

Play => yes (in most cases...though I can't do it here with a ext Sony and PowerDVD thru MC)
Rip => no

DVD Decryptor & BeSweet are the 1-2 punch for DVD ripping/encoding.

10^-27

Title: Re: DVD support
Post by: mindracing on October 02, 2003, 06:49:59 am

Thanks for the reply.

Once I've ripped it how do I import it into the MC library and will it play from there?

Title: Re: DVD support
Post by: Kurt Young on October 02, 2003, 06:59:24 am

Does MC9 require a third-party DVD decoder (such as PowerDVD or WinDVD) to play DVD movies?

If so, why?

Title: Re: DVD support
Post by: xen-uno on October 02, 2003, 07:57:32 am

'racing,

You would use DVD Decrypt to extract the VOB (you can extract just the audio portion). Then use BeSweet to extract and convert the ac3 track to whatever. I like to extract to wav (it can convert directly to ogg/mp3). From there you can use MC to convert. Keep in mind that if you do not re-sample to 44.1kHz (I leave it at 48 kHz), then you have to use the -r 48000 switch in MC when encoding to ogg. I don't know if a switch is necessary with LAME encoded mp3's. There is a ton of options in BeSweet (and Decryptor), so put on your thinking cap (a beanie with a propeller works best for me).

Here's the command line I use with BeSweet (Koyaanisqatsi is the example)...
"d:\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "s:\KOYAANISQATSI\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1.vob" -output "s:\temp\KoyaanTest3.wav" -substream 0x80 -2ch -logfilea "D:\BeSweet\BeSweet.log" ) -azid( -n1 -s stereo -F wav --maximize ) -profile( ~~~~~ Default Profile ~~~~~ )

Summary: Outputs to 2 channel wav, no dynamic compression, no 44.1 kHz re-sampling, maximizes (normalizes) output (should actually change this to 95% to reduce possible clipping when converting to a lossy format).

PS: BeSweet is strictly a command line program. Make sure you DL the BeSweet GUI as well, which will give it a windows interface.

Kurt,
I thought that DirectShow codecs eliminated the need to have WinDVD or PowerDVD installed, but this is a real gray area for me. I can't do DVD playback here thru MC (have latest PowerDVD installed)

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Title: Re: DVD support
Post by: sraymond on October 02, 2003, 08:45:27 am

I've found the Afterdark Guide http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/dvd2divx.cfm to be the best way to archive my DVDs.  You might take a look.

Scott-