Hi, In article <[email protected]>, paulster<[email protected]> wrote: > I use AnyDVD HD for both DVD and BluRay, but just for DVD you could use > DVD Shrink (free) and set the compression option to 100% so it doesn't > actually alter the mpeg stream at all. > > These will give you ISO images of the full discs so you'll still have > all the audio tracks from the original available to you.
Thanks, I'll take a look at DVD Shrink. Don't have BluRay at the moment. > I go a step further and strip out the main movie into an MKV file with > high-def audio (on BluRays) so I don't have to watch adverts and go > through the menus; I just hit play and the movie starts, but the > Popcorn Hours are quite happy with ISOs and that'll give you the DVD > player functionality but with files stored on disk somewhere (I use the > same NAS that I use for Squeezebox). How do you strip this out? Is this easily playable on a number of players? My portable device is a Cowon X7. There is no mention of MKV files on its spec page: http://www.cowonglobal.com/product_wide/COWONX7/product_page_4.php I tend to use MPlayer to drop the resolution down for playing on the portable player. I wonder if this will handle converting MKV files? > The players can also downmix 5.1 to stereo (with the exception of Dolby > Digital TrueHD tracks which it doesn't have a license for and so can > only pass through unaltered) so if you have a room with only stereo > capability then you just choose downmix on that particular player. Again, I'd need to check whether PC based players could do this downmixing, and also whether the Cowon can do it. I'd ideally like to have one 'source' file on the NAS (ths ISO) that I can create the different versions from (ideally automatically if possible). Thanks for the advice so far. Andy _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
