Learn me about movie streaming?
23 June 2013, 04:00 PM
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Learn me about movie streaming?
I'm not too au fait with this technology. I can just about rip a DVD and put it on my laptop.
I've got tons of old DVD's in cases, and would like to store them digitally and to be able to play them back on my TV. What is the easiest way to do this? I have an Xbox 360 and PS3 if they are any use?
I've got tons of old DVD's in cases, and would like to store them digitally and to be able to play them back on my TV. What is the easiest way to do this? I have an Xbox 360 and PS3 if they are any use?
23 June 2013, 04:06 PM
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if your tv is a newer type with a usb port and media playback capability buy an external hard drive and rip your dvds to avi files or x264 for better quality and put them on the hard drive then plug into tv and play. there are other ways ie network drives etc but the way i described is probably easiest.
23 June 2013, 04:15 PM
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if your tv is a newer type with a usb port and media playback capability buy an external hard drive and rip your dvds to avi files or x264 for better quality and put them on the hard drive then plug into tv and play. there are other ways ie network drives etc but the way i described is probably easiest.
I normally rip to MP4 and use the x264 codec but I compress quite a bit so a 50 min TV episode say is about 150 megs. I dunno if that sounds ok? I have no idea really.
23 June 2013, 06:48 PM
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It's not a good long terms solution for me though because my laptop just doesn't have enough disk space to fit all my movies/media.
23 June 2013, 08:04 PM
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As said, get an external HDD. I have a 1TB which is about full now - around 700 films (only 500GB) stored on it along with lots of music and other data I need etc. I saw a 3TB HDD for £85 the other day, worth a look. That way you dont have to stream the movies taking up the use of your laptop, just play them back via the xbox or Ps, either works fine.
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As said, get an external HDD. I have a 1TB which is about full now - around 700 films (only 500GB) stored on it along with lots of music and other data I need etc. I saw a 3TB HDD for £85 the other day, worth a look. That way you dont have to stream the movies taking up the use of your laptop, just play them back via the xbox or Ps, either works fine.
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Yeh but its not hard to reformat the HDD if he buys a brand new one with no data on. Pretty simple to do and that is going to be the most simplest of ways for you to play your movies back IMO.
24 June 2013, 04:21 PM
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I changed my order. I'm getting a Raspberry Pii and a couple of HDD's. I can run XBMC on the Raspberry and stream to my TV. I should be able to access the HDD's from my Mac over the network too. It's a little project for me. 
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I have a home cinema setup and now am changing it again with distributed TV, RPi clients, an android client and some PC's - all making use of Plex, XBMC ..... all as a result of that site!
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