Topic: Play Dvds Off Hard Drive (Read 52 times)

deweyhewson · « **on:** August 23, 2004, 10:37:00 AM »

hey guys,

first off, i'm sure this question has been asked in another topic and/or forum, but i haven't found a reasonable answer, yet. So please no replies of "dude, it's in another topic". thanks

Ok, here's what I want to do: I back up all of the dvd movies that I own on my PC with DVD Shrink using as much compression as possible (to shrink them to like 2gb so I can save space on the HD and thus hold more movies), then I transfer them to my xbox so that I can just select a movie and play it instead of looking for a disc and whatever. XBMC, as has been stated elsewhere, plays the "movie" fine, but since I ripped the entire DVD i want menu support, which is basically why DVD video was created in the first place (along with better quality), otherwise it's just like having VHS. So my question is this: is there a program that can play dvds off the hard drive with full menu support? The documentation for DVD-x states that it can play off the hard drive, but for the life of me I can't figure out how. I was thinking maybe there was an Item command I could use in Evo-X to open the ripped DVD with DVD-x (Item "Better Off Dead","f:\movies\Better Off Dead") would that work? and if not, does anyone have any ideas?

thanks for your help!

~dewey <

feflicker · « **Reply #1 on:** August 23, 2004, 10:41:00 AM »

No, there isn't a player that plays dvd's off the hard drive with menu support. You need to install Linux (Wine) for that at this time...

Why not just encode to xvid, save a bunch of space, and say "to hell with the menus".

Seriously though, we all keep hoping that XBMC incorporates support for the menus, or someone else creates/ports a dvd player with hdd support... <

deweyhewson · « **Reply #2 on:** August 23, 2004, 12:01:00 PM »

hey, thanks for your reply and advice. I guess what I'll do for now is stick with XBMC to just play the movies themselves, but i sure hope someone creates some software that can do this (maybe DVD-x3?). I wonder why the documentation for DVD-x said that it could play off the HD. Typo maybe? Anyway, if anyone else has some advice as well I'd be anxious to hear it. Thanks.

~Dewey <

feflicker · « **Reply #3 on:** August 23, 2004, 01:04:00 PM »

deweyhewson · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2004, 07:18:00 PM »

hey,

it was my mistake on the whole DVD-x HD issue. I misread the info on www.xbox-scene.com about it that said it could "run from a CD-RW or from the HD" and I mistook that to mean the movies. I was mistaken. Thanks for responding, though.

~Dewey <

feflicker · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2004, 01:17:00 AM »

Diontae18 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2004, 12:54:00 PM »

feflicker · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2004, 01:45:00 PM »

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