Saving my DVD collection onto my htpc (1 Viewer)

[maxx_nantes]

Hi,

I'd like to save my DVD collection onto my HTPC (we're talking here about more than 1000 DVDs). I guess the best way would be the following :
-direct save (iso) for major movies (including bonus dvds) => up to 9 Go/DVD (which means up to 45 Go for boxsets like Blade Runner)
-mkv (or equivalent) for "middle" movies (including 2 audio tracks : original language + french and 2 subtitles files : english (if needed) + french (if needed))
-avi file for less important movies

Having just bought a 1,5 To HDD, this means I could use as much as 1,5Go per DVD (that's a mean value). Therefore, I wanted to know what the best way of doign it would be (I just found out about mediaslayer but it doesnt seem (correct me if I'm wrong) to be able to extract multiple audio tracks)

Thanks in advance

Mathieu

 

[alank]

I like my dvds in iso. Yes they chew up space but its worth it to me. I too bough a Tb drive for this and it was money well spent. I have 75 dvd isos which have used up 320Gb. I don't have a backup drive. I figure when the drive dies some day, I'll just spend a few hours and re-rip the DVDs again. Although as prices continue to drop, I may change my mind on this. But for you, with 1000 DVDs, man I would not want to have to re-rip. You will probably want another 1.5 Tb drive as redundant backup.

 

[maxx_nantes]

I think I found the way (or at least a way).
DVD Shrink + AutoGK produces avi files with 2 subtitles files and 2 audio tracks just as needed. The average size of a file is 2 Go which makes it possible for me to have up to 700 DVDs saved to my HDD.
For major movies, I'll save them as a iso file using anydvd.

Concerning a possible HDD failure alank, that's a really good point (never given it a thought before). I think I'll try to use a RAID 1 system (or a nightly copy to another HDD).

 

[AIstudio]

Hi,
DVD Shrink is good.
Personally I use a program called Handbrake. You can rip your DVD's to whatever format you like. I rip to Mk5 with multiple audio tracks and you can also put in the subtitles etc.
you can set what size rip you want depending on the quality required. Very good piece of software.

Regards

Kev

 

[etheesdad]

+1 here for Handbrake. I used to find AutoGK faster but also got a lot of OOS issues with it.

'autobrake' is a handy addition if you are doing a lot of disks ...

 

[maxx_nantes]

Pardon me if I point out that both of you are natural-born-english-speakers
I have no problem with watching movie in english (sometimes with subtitles if needed) but for my girlfriend there are 2 choices french audio track or french subtitles. As I won't watch an english speaking movie, it leaves us with only one choice : english audio track with french subtitles. But (because there's a big but ), when I watch the same movies by myself, I don't want to have french subtitles spoiling my movies.
When I go to hanbrake page, I can read this : HandBrake "hard burns" subtitles. This means the subtitles are written on top of the image permanently. They cannot be turned on or off like on the DVD. " which makes me think that handbrake can not be a solution for me.

 

[jasonmorriso]

When I go to hanbrake page, I can read this : HandBrake "hard burns" subtitles. This means the subtitles are written on top of the image permanently. They cannot be turned on or off like on the DVD. " which makes me think that handbrake can not be a solution for me.

With the last official release of 0.9.3, that is true. The latest development snapshot however supports software encoded subtitles. It is also a little faster, and does a better job of encoding h.264.

 

[maxx_nantes]

good news. Do you now when it's going to be available?

 

[jasonmorriso]

You can download it now.

HandBrake • View topic - HandBrake SVN2845 Snapshot

As it says in the post, it isn't a stable release, but so far the only problem I've had is it's inability to transcode the movie Cars. I had to go back a release to do that one, but everything else has been working well.

 

[hulkhaugen]

how do you bypass the copy protection?