Sounds like you're really close. I suspect you aren't doing the compress
option on Ripit. The default for Ripit is to make an exact copy of the
entire DVD onto your storage device which can then be played by DVD
Player, since it's just a virtual DVD at that point. If you do the
Compress button instead it will convert the rip to whatever you chose in
the preferences. I suspect for your case you chose AppleTV since that's
your eventual playback platform. I haven't played with this as much
since I just have a MacMini hooked up to the TV and use DVDPlayer to
play the videos.
CB
On 7/17/12 11:27 AM, jason lefevers wrote:
Hi ok I really need some assistance i am getting in over my head with this
stuff. so here is my situation I have a external harddrive that is hooked to my
arrport extreme so I can access the content on my MBP. what I am trying to do
is use rip it to rip my dvd collection and have it saved on my external HD I
also want to be able to use Itunes on my MBP to play these movies .
What I have been able to do so far is : I had ripped 3 movies previously to my
Itunes library on my MBP and was able to play them just fine. searched on the
web for how to move them to external HD , what I did was copy the movies folder
from Itunes and pasted it on the external HD then went back and deleated the
folder on my MBP . after this I could go to Itunes and if i went to play a
movie it would say it could not located it and it would give you the option to
find it , so I found it and could play it then from my ex HD but I would have
to do that search every time . The way I read to solve this was to in Itunes
delete the movies from the library since they were not linked to anything
anymore. then with my wifes help opened opened the ex HD and dragged the movies
folder while holding the option key and dropping it on the main Itunes window .
the movies showed up and when I clicked on a movie it would play just fine and
would be playing from the ex HD. so this was great , now the problem I have now
is adding to that library. I changed the settings on ripit so when I rip a dvd
it is saved in the movies folder on my external HD that I copied from my MBP .
I was able to do this , however It doesn't seem to save it in the same format
as the other previously ripped dvds and I am unable to get it to show up in my
Itunes movies library on my MBP with the other movies . I can access the movie
by opening my HD and selecting it and it will start playing using the dvd
player which I guess is fine but this is not what I want to do . I am really
trying to get it so I can use my apple tv to play movies stored on my externial
HD . I know I can't do this directly I have to access the movies from the
Itunes library on my MBP using my apple tv.
sorry for the very long post If anyone has any ideas or is very good with
Itunes stuff and external harddrives I could really use some help. thanks
alot Jason
PS I am using lion with a late 2011 MBP .
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