Its a good question, and something that I have not been able to find a simple solution to for a couple of years.
However, in the interim I have been ripping my DVDs to full size ISO images. This ripping process gets rid of the encryption and removes macrovision and region restrictions and other such annoyances, without further compressing the MPEG2 stream or transcoding to a different format. I say further compress, because the DVD source material is already compressed using a lossy algorithm. The full sized ISOs are the closest thing to FLAC+CUE for CD ripping because you can recreate the original DVD without additional loss from these, or convert them to different future formats as they become available. You can directly watch these on Win/Mac/Lin using VLC or some similar program or by mounting the ISO and using the default DVD player. An increasing amount of hardware devices support direct playback of DVD ISOs from local/attached drives or over the network. Unfortunately support for direct ISOs is not nearly as ubiquitous as support for xvid/divx/avi files or h.264/mp4/mkv files which are the more common formats for video files. -- Nikhil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53287 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
