Hello Everyone (1 Viewer)

[MrEMan]

Just posting to say hi.

I have just assembled my Meda PC and am happy with it.

Silverstone CW02 case
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P Motherboard
Intel Quad Core Q6600 Processor
2 GB Kingston RAM
500 Gig HDD so far

One question I have.. is it possible to insert a DVD and it magically gets copied to the Hard Drive for use in Media Portal?

Regards

 

[Marcusb]

Hi and Welcome.
I don't think it is possible to do this at the moment. I don't think there's even a straightforward plugin that does it either, but I do remember that someone has posted a how to in the tips and tricks section a while ago. It wasn't a straight forward process though.

 

[milhouse]

Actually, there is a plugin that runs DVD Decrypter and copies the ISO to hard drive. See this thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/dvd_ripper-t24515.html

I've never tried it, so I can't speak to how well it works. I just happened to remember having read the thread.

 

[MrEMan]

Thankyou milhouse I'll give that a try.

Do you guys use the TV server? I'm wondering if it's worth setting up. I have the media PC, my PC and the kids have a PC, might be nice to share the TV around if it's not too much work.

 

[milhouse]

Can't say that I have tried it. From the posts it seems to be pretty functional, and reasonably stable. As well as the only way to capture HD TV.

I've been putting it off, because when I move to TV server and will also be re-running the satellite feeds and putting both sat receivers on the same PC, which also means buying a second internal tuner card. So it won't be a minor project for me.

 

[Marcusb]

I use the TV server. For me it actually works better than the built in TV engine (much better reliability, faster channel changes and can record two progrms on the same mux at the same time for DTV).

Bear in mind, it will take some effort to set up but there is a lot of information in the wiki and even step by step videos.

 

[cheetah05]

I too use the TV server and agree it is more reliable and generally better than the built in TV engine.

I am a single seat setup (server and client on same PC), and i didn't find the setup particularly daunting - just follow the videos and you'll be setup within no time.