<p>If you want a 10 foot interface, XBMC is the way to go. I've used it for years. I think MythTV would work but its always been clunky to me, although I haven't used it in ~2 years, so that may be different now.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 9, 2011 8:39 PM, "John-Thomas Richards" <<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org" target="_blank">jtr@jrichards.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:33:23AM +0000, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, John-Thomas Richards<br>>> <<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org" target="_blank">jtr@jrichards.org</a>> wrote:<br>>> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:25:56AM +0000, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
>> >> Handbrake works very well for ripping and encoding disks. When I<br>>> >> backed up my 100 or so disc DVD collection, I believe I used<br>>> >> 'dvdbackup'. (dvdbackup doesn't include an encoding option, though)<br>
>> ><br>>> > I'm actually less concerned about converting to another format. vlc can<br>>> > play a VOB just fine (and I don't want any loss of quality). The<br>>> > problem is watching a specific episode is difficult because a VOB<br>
>> > doesn't match up with an episode. If I had sufficient disk space I<br>>> > would simply use dvdbackup and keep all the extra features though I<br>>> > would really prefer having an individual file for each episode<br>
>> > (something like `Stargate_SG1_S01E01_Children_of_the_Gods.mpg').<br>>> <br>>> The output of dvdbackup is a folder which is equivalent to a mounted<br>>> DVD filesystem. You can treat that as an ISO with mplayer and VLC;<br>
>> that's how I watched my ripped discs.<br>> <br>> mplayer and vlc are great apps. However, each folder will hold only a<br>> few episodes, thus requiring lots of movement in and out of folders to<br>
> find the episode you want. By having one file per episode each season's<br>> episodes can be in one folder.<br>> <br>> Would something like MythTV be able to traverse all the directories so<br>> that such copied DVDs are available via menu?<br>
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