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How To Build a Movie Jukebox, Part 1: Rip Your DVDs

Monday, December 29th, 2008 – running time 29:44
How To Build a Movie Jukebox, Part 1: Rip Your DVDs
Want to play your video collection on any media extender, console or Apple TV? Step one is to get your movies off of the DVDs and onto your hard drive! Part 1 of our DIY Video Jukebox Series

If you're like most people you probably have a huge library of DVDs that you've bought and collected over the years. Unfortunately it's an inconvenient format if you want to playback all that content anywhere around the house. So in part 1 of our DIY Video Jukebox Series we show you how to rip and encode that stack of DVDs into a format that you can play on your Windows Media Extender, set top box like the Video Popcorn Hour, PS3, Xbox 360, or AppleTV. All you need is fast machine mac or PC and some free apps.

For Mac owners checkout HandBrake.

For PC owners your choices are bit more varied. Along with the PC version of HandBrake, you can also use the AutoGK. It's a GUI front end for a several different open source video transcoding tools that let you harness their power without the tedious need to jump from one app to another each time. AutoGK is great especially for fans of DivX and Xvid encoding. Finally there's AutoMKV. Like AutoGK, AutoMKV is a GUI front end for various tools that are used. The benefit of AutoMKV is it's higher level of tweakability and output format diversity.

And if you run into unexpected problems VideoHelp.com offers a wealth of resources and advice for any video encoding, transcoding or formatting issue.

After your done ripping and encoding, don't miss Part 2 of our DIY Video Jukebox series, which shows you how to build a movie, music and media server that will stream your content around the house to just about any device known to man.

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Started discussion: December 29, 2008 @ 4:21pm GMT

Episode 84 - How To Rip and Encode DVDs [Discussion]

Want to play your video collection on any media extender, console or Apple TV? Step one is to get your movies off of the DVDs and onto your hard drive! Part 1 of our DIY Video Jukebox Series

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computoman
6 months ago
handbrake for linux.
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/?p=407
ashwinraj
6 months ago

High quality Jukebox?

I have a collection of hundreds of DVDs which I dig through and play on an upscaling DVD player connected to a 1080p TV. I would like to make a video jukebox that doesn't sacrifice any quality (rip, but not encode) and has a front end that upscales well.

I don't mind spending money on terabytes of storage, but I don't know if such a system is even possible without buying an uber expensive kaleidescape.


The Mac Mini + DVD Assist idea is interesting, but Front Row doesn't do real upscaling (line interpolation) it just blows up DVDs to a higher rez.

Any ideas?
kerok
6 months ago

Patrick doesn't know about MacTheRipper?

Perhaps Patrick could shorten his workflow by using MacTheRipper.

Last freeware version was 2.6.6, which still works well. Latest development version is 3.0 r14m, which works excellently (and quickly)

Must use your Internet skillz to find it though...
ashwinraj
6 months ago
Compared to most DVD rippers on the Windows side, MacTheRipper is pretty crappy.
It hasn't been updated since March 2007, so anything Handbrake can't rip, MacTheRipper wouldn't be able to rip either.
fishtoprecords
6 months ago

Can't even talk about defeating DRM

Noticed that Patrick and Roger don't talk much about breaking the DRM, on "mass market action movies" For a reason.

The DMCA makes it illegal to talk/email/forum post about how to do this for US Citizens. So to find out about this, talk to someone from Europe.
davmoo
6 months ago
In reply to fishtoprecords:
The DMCA makes it illegal to talk/email/forum post about how to do this for US Citizens.


The MPAA and RIAA can make like squirrels and hug my nuts. And so can the backers of the DMCA. Every movie or TV show I have in my collection was legitimately purchased. Therefore, if I decide I want to play them on a toaster oven or use them as decorations in my aquarium I am going to do so. And I don't give a flying you know what about what the morons at the movie companies think about it.

I'm working on this very thing, a DVD jukebox, right now. So I thought this episode was fantastically timely.

And like Patrick, I'm a big fan of AnyDVD. I'm about 100 discs in to a 500 disc collection, and I haven't hit one yet that AnyDVD couldn't rip. Worth ever damned penny to buy it. And it supposedly also does Blu-Ray, although I don't own any of those (and the moronic copy protection schemes is why I'm not in any hurry to support the MPAA in yet another lame attempt to remove my rights) so I can't vouch from personal experience.
MMgunner
6 months ago
Up until I picked up my Archos PMP I would rip my DVD using DVD Decrypter and play it using VLC. VLC will natively play DVD's so if you do a "back up" it will play it like you had the DVD in the drive. This is a good way to get all of the data off a DVD and play it all for free.
kerok
6 months ago
In reply to ashwinraj:
Compared to most DVD rippers on the Windows side, MacTheRipper is pretty crappy.
It hasn't been updated since March 2007, so anything Handbrake can't rip, MacTheRipper wouldn't be able to rip either.



Well Actually.... you're speaking of 2.6.6 which is at end of development. The author continues to tweak the shareware 3.0 version as new discs come out.

That being said, the Windows side DOES have the most toys...
fishtoprecords
6 months ago
In reply to davmoo:
The MPAA and RIAA can make like squirrels and hug my nuts. And so can the backers of the DMCA.


I'm not about to defend it, it ruined a great startup that I was in.

The RIAA and MPAA wrote the damn DMCA. Congress passed it without reading it. Many of its provisions are stupid and many are immoral. But its the law in the US.

And talking about how to circumvent it is specifically mentioned in it as a criminal offense.

But our congress is too pwned by the media to repeal it and restore our civil liberties.
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