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I am new to XBMC as well as media centers in general. Yesterday I downloaded XBMC and everything went fine and I wanted to begin adding DVD movies to my hard drive so that I could scan them into my movie library in XBMC. I am having trouble figuring out how to copy these movies onto my hard drive. I downloaded a couple of free programs that people had recommended to use (DVD Shrink, Handbrake, etc. ) but I am not really having any luck getting them to copy my dvd correctly. I set up a folder for it to copy the DVD to and when it was done, there were several .vob and ".ifo" (I think) files, but I couldn't really do anything with them. Any information would be appreciated
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I appreciate your reply. A lot of that is foreign language to me. Am I going to need to use one of those ripping software or are you telling me that I am able to do it without one of those ? When you gave that code, where is that used at ? Meaning, where would I enter that code into ?
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^ oh sorry, i just assumed you were running xbmc-live (which runs off of an embedded version of linux).
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Snoxbox, I am basically trying to figure out how to rip these dvd's I have onto my computer and get them stored in the video library. I created a folder called "Movies", made is a shared folder, then added it as a source on XBMC. I ripped a movie into that folder, and I did see a bunch of various files within that folder. However, I am unable to get the video stored into my media library.
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I find that using DVD Decrypter to get the files from the DVD to your PC works best. And to convert the files to a .avi (DIVX or XVID encoded) AutoGK works best. Google them and you'll find plenty of tutorials, even video tutorials on youtube as well.
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Another thing that works pretty well if you want to keep the movies and tv shows at original quality is to use MakeMKV it'll wrap them in a .mkv wrapper with chapter support and the program likes those fine.
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^ i know you are using windows instead of linux but i just wanted to brag that mencoder can rip/ encode dvd titles on the fly in one command without the need to store 9 gigs worth of vob's. its not included by default but its very easy to install on the xbmc live-usb.
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There are some good suggestions here, but remember when we all started "Backing Up" DVD's - it was quite overwhelming. Too many things to consider all it one hit.
Keep it Simple.
You need to answer a few simple questions.
1 - Do you want the whole DVD on your HDD or just the movie only??
2 - Do you want to have DVD menus?
3 - Do you want lots of files as a result of rip (all named the same), or just one (named as you want it)?
4 - Are you worried about HDD space??
DVD's backed up to a single ISO format is a good solution. One resultant file named after the movie - eg - Die Hard 4.iso. ISO can have menu's or not - the whole disc or just the movie.
DVD shrink can backup the whole disc directly to the ISO format - and using the "Re-author" mode you can select movie only. N.B. DVDShrink cannot handle many of the latest protections.
You should probably get a handle on the DVD backup process first before looking at re-encoding (which only saves HDD space and takes a long time).
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