I have just one question, and it's a really really simple one. I hope the answer is simple too. I just want to know this: Will this device allow me to play VIDEO_TS rips from all of my DVDs? With menus, subtitles, alternate languages, and other DVD features? Without bugginess or conversion?
That's basically 75% of what I want from a set top box. I am so tired of using Windows Media Center on my terrible laggy laptop across the room with a 20 ft VGA cable. This really shouldn't be that hard. The DVD format is not new, and yet almost no one seems to get this right.
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If they haven't put any restrictions on Boxee Box that make it work differently than Boxee on a computer, then yes it will play VIDEO_TS rips. There is one catch, though, and that is the way the directories are named. If you want your library to show up in the movies menu with the correct title/cover, you have to name the directories in a specific way that allows boxee to look the information up. I forget the specifics, but it's something like Movie.Title.2010
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I have just learned that Boxee beta does NOT support treating VIDEO_TS as a single DVD. I have tested for myself in Windows. It can read and treat VOBs individually, but it seems considering a VIDEO_TS as a single source is a feature from the alpha version that did not make it when the beta was rewritten from scratch.
The relevant JIRA issue is here, and there are two discussion links in issue comments: jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-5420
This is a deal breaker. I guess I will have to decide whether to wait or to find another solution.
The relevant JIRA issue is here, and there are two discussion links in issue comments: jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-5420
This is a deal breaker. I guess I will have to decide whether to wait or to find another solution.
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Boxee right now can play VIDEO_TS rips with everything available. I'm pretty sure that boxee won't lock anything down.
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In cases where I want to preserve my DVD Menus have allow them to be navigated on the Boxee Box I use DVD Fab to simply backup the full DVD to an ISO file. This can be done with just a few clicks and DVD Fab lets you backup just the main movie or the full disk to ISO.
When backing up a DVD or Blu-ray that I own containing multiple TV show episodes, I use DVD Fab's DVD Ripper (in VOB passthrough mode) or Blu-Ray Ripper (in M2TS passthrough mode) to rip the episodes and extras that I want without all the menus. The Boxee Box supports DVD menu navigation, but does not (at the time of this writing) support Blu-Ray menu navigation so extracting the raw M2TS files seems to be the best way to backup Blu-Rays.
Ripping to ISO, VOB, or M2TS is the fastest, highest quality, and most power efficient (negligible CPU loading) way to backup these types of disks as no transcoding is used unlike most of the other DVD Fab profiles that decode the video format from the disk and re-encode to some alternative format.
When backing up a DVD or Blu-ray that I own containing multiple TV show episodes, I use DVD Fab's DVD Ripper (in VOB passthrough mode) or Blu-Ray Ripper (in M2TS passthrough mode) to rip the episodes and extras that I want without all the menus. The Boxee Box supports DVD menu navigation, but does not (at the time of this writing) support Blu-Ray menu navigation so extracting the raw M2TS files seems to be the best way to backup Blu-Rays.
Ripping to ISO, VOB, or M2TS is the fastest, highest quality, and most power efficient (negligible CPU loading) way to backup these types of disks as no transcoding is used unlike most of the other DVD Fab profiles that decode the video format from the disk and re-encode to some alternative format.
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