Hi, I'd like to ask a few questions about Media Portal before I download and install it...
I'm looking to setup a "media center/portal" machine to watch live TV, films and various TV series. I need to add that I do not download my content, nor do I have any interest in burning DVD's. I am only interested to find the "best" and "easiest" way to rip my DVD's (and eventually Blu-rays) to HDD in whatever format (I don't care) to be able to view them in a well structured media program.
Currently, I have been messing around with dvdshrink, which works fine to rip to HDD and also MakeMKV (also works well), does Media Portal support MKV files? Out of the box, WMC doesn't seem to.
- What does the "main menu" structure look like for Media Portal, at first glace I didn't notice any section on the site that showed it!? I probably overlooked it...
- What is the best folder structure for TV series? I would LOVE an option in the main menu that was some like this, "Series". Then within this section each series would only be listed once by it's name, ie. "Dr Who", "Battlestar Galactica", "Scrubs", etc. Then within those would be "Season 1", "Season 2", etc. then finally a list of each episode from that season. Can Media Portal do this out of the box? How should the folder structure look?
- When ripping the TV shows from DVD (or Blu-ray) is there any particular format that I should use for best results? ps. I don't care about the menus or extra content, I just want to build a library in a structure as mentioned above.
- As for films, I assume I can simply place the VOB files into a directory (using the films name) to build up the film library!? How do the title image files work for the films? Does Media Portal try to automatically find and add a title image? What if I don't like the image it chooses, can I replace it?
:sorry: for all the "beginner" questions and
for any and all responses...
I'm looking to setup a "media center/portal" machine to watch live TV, films and various TV series. I need to add that I do not download my content, nor do I have any interest in burning DVD's. I am only interested to find the "best" and "easiest" way to rip my DVD's (and eventually Blu-rays) to HDD in whatever format (I don't care) to be able to view them in a well structured media program.
Currently, I have been messing around with dvdshrink, which works fine to rip to HDD and also MakeMKV (also works well), does Media Portal support MKV files? Out of the box, WMC doesn't seem to.
- What does the "main menu" structure look like for Media Portal, at first glace I didn't notice any section on the site that showed it!? I probably overlooked it...
- What is the best folder structure for TV series? I would LOVE an option in the main menu that was some like this, "Series". Then within this section each series would only be listed once by it's name, ie. "Dr Who", "Battlestar Galactica", "Scrubs", etc. Then within those would be "Season 1", "Season 2", etc. then finally a list of each episode from that season. Can Media Portal do this out of the box? How should the folder structure look?
- When ripping the TV shows from DVD (or Blu-ray) is there any particular format that I should use for best results? ps. I don't care about the menus or extra content, I just want to build a library in a structure as mentioned above.
- As for films, I assume I can simply place the VOB files into a directory (using the films name) to build up the film library!? How do the title image files work for the films? Does Media Portal try to automatically find and add a title image? What if I don't like the image it chooses, can I replace it?
:sorry: for all the "beginner" questions and
for any and all responses...
New Zealand
