Post by: deweyhewson on August 23, 2004, 10:37:00 AM
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 :D
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 <
Post by: feflicker on August 23, 2004, 10:41:00 AM
Why not just encode to xvid, save a bunch of space, and say "to hell with the menus". :jester:
Seriously though, we all keep hoping that XBMC incorporates support for the menus, or someone else creates/ports a dvd player with hdd support... <
Post by: deweyhewson on August 23, 2004, 12:01:00 PM
~Dewey <
Post by: feflicker on August 23, 2004, 01:04:00 PM
| QUOTE |
| 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. |
Could you post the readme.txt? I am not home right now to look at it and I am curious
I am thinking it was a planned feature that never came into fruition...
It must be pretty difficult to make a dvd player for the Xbox since no one has done taken this task on (like any of the dashboard teams).
Post by: deweyhewson on August 24, 2004, 07:18:00 PM
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 <
Post by: feflicker on August 25, 2004, 01:17:00 AM
Post by: Diontae18 on August 29, 2004, 12:54:00 PM
| QUOTE (feflicker @ Aug 23 2004, 07:38 PM) |
Why not just encode to xvid, save a bunch of space, and say "to hell with the menus".  |
What program's out there that lets you encode .vob files to .xvid. I have dvd movies like there's something about mary on my xbox harddrive that I ripped with DVD2Xbox that takes up 7.3GB's. Can I FTP these files and encode them one by one.
Post by: feflicker on August 29, 2004, 01:45:00 PM
