None of the MS drm stuff is bothering what I'm doing in the least. I
don't even know what newer MS players you are referring to. PowerDVD is
not a microsoft product and it handles the secure path for blu-ray just
fine. AnyDVDHD removes copy protection. I have no issues with DRM.
On 10/22/2011 3:58 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote:
I don't like microsoft philosophy on drm thus I have not loaded any of their
newer players and I always use a third party player like media player
classic or VLC on my pc's. I follow the same philosophy about their
marketing hyped crap DVR dvr system.
You do not need a console to use PMS, it's a dnla standard compliant server
that was originally written to support PS3. TVERSITY is another. Both are
freeware& opensource that run on PC.
On Oct 22, 2011 12:48 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin"<[email protected]> wrote:
Why? MC works well. I don't own a game console.
On 10/22/2011 3:40 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote:
Uhg, I wouldn't touch MS' media related software with a ten foot pole!
All I use is PS3 media server to stream to my DLNA devices. Mostly MKV tv
shows& dvd/BR ISO.
On Oct 22, 2011 11:28 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin"<[email protected]>
wrote:
I have gone nuts over this...it's like the most exciting PC type thing
I've
come across in a long time.
I'm using MyMovies, Windows Media Center, PowerDVD11 Ultra and Windows 7
homegroup to make this work.
My old PC with the Q9550 Quad Core Processor is doing server duties.
Currently it has 17 TB of movie/TV series storage with another 3 TB to
come
online this weekend and another 3 TB coming. At that point, the old box I
had will be filled to capacity. [I did notice that HD prices started
climbing the other day, so I bought that other 3TB as I found only one
place
with a half-way decent price.] Not sure how to expand beyond there...not
even sure I want to. 23TB seems like a lot of storage to me, but I'm sure
some of you folks have way more than that.
Right now, I have some 356 titles loaded up. Most of them are blu-rays
in
ISO format. Some are regular DVDs...I have a few MKVs but I prefer just
to
rip straight BD to ISO as it is less effort overall. MyMovies is a very
slick and powerful backend for Windows Media Center. It doesn't "look" as
good as XMBC but I think it is easier to use and more powerful (or just
as
powerful). Just about all of my Blu-ray collection resides online but
most
of my DVD collection does not. I have a hard time watching DVDs anymore.
I need a means to catalog what is stored where. If a disc crashes, my
play
is just to rebuild that disc from optical media.
It was totally worth the effect to run that Cat6 cable this summer.
Trying
to stream blu-ray any way other than over gigabit is hopeless.
Funny thing is I don't watch movies has much as you'd think based on
having
this setup. I just like having the option has having it dirt simple to
get
to my stuff.