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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harblar" data-source="post: 518559" data-attributes="member: 98399">I read that thread and I guess I'm missing something.My Current File server is running a p4 3.0ghz with 3gb off DDR400 on an Asus P4C800-E deluxe board. Currently have a 2tb parity drive and a 1tb data drive running on a Gigabit Lan. (had 2 1tb drives, but one was faulty and I'm waiting on the replacement).  All I need for a server is something that can just start up and run (administrated remotely), Protect against drive failures, and allow for additional disks of different capacities to be added to and/or replace other drives at any given time. It's ability to run the os off a small flash drive is also nice. All I'm going to be storing is DVD's.  That's it.  Maybe some day down the road I'll want to mess with ripping Bluerays, but for now I have an Oppo stand alone player that is bullet proof in terms of HD playback and Lossless audio support.  So far UnRAID does exactly what I need. FlexRAID looks like it might what I need as well, but I don't know enough about it yet to make a decision.  Back to my original Question...  I tried out MKV and it works fairly well with a couple exceptions. 1. A lot of the Television series I am going to be ripping (I have a feeling) are encoded as one large file and individual episodes are broken up by chapters. In order to get individual episodes I have to first rip out the specific episodes one by one and then have MKVmaker put them together. Then I have to edit the file name to work with the TV Series plugin. It works, but is time consuming.2. Once in MKV form and loaded into MP everything works great. Video plays, multiple audio streams work, but Subtitles are a no go (at least for me and my limited knowledge) I have a number of Anime discs so Subtitles prove to be very useful... Even if I'm listening to the english track there are often forced subtitles that will pop up with translations for Japanese Kanji, etc on screen at times. It seems that there are ways to get subtitles to work with MKV files, but they also seem fairly time consuming.I revisited the ripping straight to a Video_TS folder, but this time used any dvd and DVD Shrink (on Pulp Fiction). This worked perfectly... video played, Subtitles worked. Only problem... No audio, at least in Media Portal.  I tried playing it with WMP 11 and it worked fine. Outputed the full DTS surround sound to the reciever, synced up...  No problems. Tried with Gurren Lagann Episode, Dolby Digital Track. Same resultsI'm guessing I have a codec screwed up somewhere, but only god knows where.  In the past I used Theater Tek as a DVD player with good Results. Would using this as an external player be better than MP's internal player?Edit...Ok...I'm an Idiot.  Was changing codec settings under video player. Changed them under Dvd player and Viola`.  Had the renderer set to HDMI (which I will eventually be using when I integrate it into my theater), but I'm testing with and optical connection right now.  Doh!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" />Ok, so Problem solved. Ripping To the Video_TS Folder with DVD shrink/anydvd is giving me exactly what I need now.Now I just have a couple of Questions to help me streamline the process a little.  When DVD shrink rips the DVD it ends up with two IFO files: VIDEO_TS.IFO and VTS_01_0.IFO. When I goto Import the videos into the MP TV Series plugin it tries to parse both files. I have the strings setup to correctly Parse VIDEO_TS.IFO and I know that If I don't manually add VTS_01_0.IFO it won't get added, but it still bugs me. Is there anyway to set up a parsing string that will ignore everything but VIDEO_TS.IFO in the folder?Also when I play The Gurren Lagann episodes there is a set of subtitles that should play automatically, but doesn't. Is there anyway to force these?</blockquote>

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