The blog post isn't what you expect from reading the title, however it is kinda related. My DVD collection, let me rephrase that, my 2.5 year old sons DVD collection is starting to build, and if you're a parent, i'm sure you're sick of, can i watch that, then 2 seconds later, don't like it, and want to watch that, repeat over the next 8 hours ;)
I wanted a solution that would be better than changing the DVD every 5 mins. The most obvious choice would be to rip, sorry, backup, the DVD to a hard drive and use that. Oh i should point out that my TV does have a USB port on it, so will read from a USB device. How Rocking is that?!. The only problem was that the "ripper" i used to only output the DVD to iso, and this is one format the TV didn't play. [i was using a windows tool at the time]
A few seconds [and yes that's pretty much how long it took], later and i found a tool called acidrip [google has plenty of results for it]
Just pop in the dvd, select the chapter you want to copy and click start. That's it in it's simplest form. I did have to select that i wanted to rip to xvid but there wasn't much more i had to do. I wasn't sure if this was going to play on the tv from the hdd, so i selected a small chapter about 10 mins long, small chapter, shorter encoding time. Copy the avi to my hdd, plug it in to the TV and keep the fingers crossed. IT PLAYED :) Awesome. The only bad thing now is that i have to spend hours encoding all my DVD's.....hmmmm think i may need a bigger drive :)
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