Vista 64 Bit Home Premium Media Centre playing DVD's from HDD

[Guest jwsplatjw]

I would like to migrate my DVD collection from my player to my PC. I would

also like to get prepared for the migration to Blue Ray HD movies.

 

I realize I will need to get some new Hardware like some very large HDD's

and confirm that my nVidia 6800 SLI pair can give me 1920x1080 output. The

harware is the easy part for me. Where I am lost is with the software. Can

I place a DVD in my DVD drive and just click RIP in Media Player and rip it

to my HDD? Do I need some special software to allow me to manage my

collection? I would hope that I can use the Media Centre to manage the files

once they are on the HDD. Has anyone tried this yet? It seems like a

logical progression for me as I currently have my PC connected to my plasma

display and use it via a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard from the sofa. My music

collection can be accessed via MC though ripping is time consuming,

especially vinyl. Once I manage to get all of my media onto Hard Drives I

can eliminate extra pieces of hardware and using RF HID's for both Xbox and

PC everything can be hidden away and I can live clutterless.

 

Anyone with experience doing this who has some advice or some lessons

learned please post a reply.

 

Cheers!

 

JW

[Guest Carlos]

RE: Vista 64 Bit Home Premium Media Centre playing DVD's from HDD

 

Hi,

For making backup copies of your legally owned DVDs I can recommend you

DVDFab.

It will make playable copies of your DVDs to the HD, preserving the DVD file

structure.

Additionaly, it can convert to AVI (XViD encoded) if you want so.

Carlos

 

"jwsplatjw" wrote:

> I would like to migrate my DVD collection from my player to my PC. I would

> also like to get prepared for the migration to Blue Ray HD movies.

>

> I realize I will need to get some new Hardware like some very large HDD's

> and confirm that my nVidia 6800 SLI pair can give me 1920x1080 output. The

> harware is the easy part for me. Where I am lost is with the software. Can

> I place a DVD in my DVD drive and just click RIP in Media Player and rip it

> to my HDD? Do I need some special software to allow me to manage my

> collection? I would hope that I can use the Media Centre to manage the files

> once they are on the HDD. Has anyone tried this yet? It seems like a

> logical progression for me as I currently have my PC connected to my plasma

> display and use it via a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard from the sofa. My music

> collection can be accessed via MC though ripping is time consuming,

> especially vinyl. Once I manage to get all of my media onto Hard Drives I

> can eliminate extra pieces of hardware and using RF HID's for both Xbox and

> PC everything can be hidden away and I can live clutterless.

>

> Anyone with experience doing this who has some advice or some lessons

> learned please post a reply.

>

> Cheers!

>

> JW