On 7/2/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/01/05 10:15 PM >>> > > Thank you all for your responses. This has been extremely > > helpful and the fog is starting to clear. > > > > Paul thanks for your suggestion of dumping my 300 cd carousel. > > I like the carousel but I like the idea better and it should only > > take about 150 gig hd to do it. Does mythtv or some addon > > piece of software automatically download all the track title and > > artist info and allow you to search your CDs on HD to find and > > play music? > > Yep. MythMusic will do it all. It is a bit clunky for my tastes, > but it gets the job done and the visualizations a good for > parties. > > > Also Paul, you stated at one time that "you dare anybody to > > tell the difference between a dedicated DVD and MythTV playing > > it". Is this from the DVD drive or after you copied it ot HD. Later > > > This is from after copying it as a "perfect" copy. I guess it could > be directly from the DVD drive as well. I hadn't thought about > that - as the process is pretty much the same. > > > you mention that HD is worth the image loss. Please clarify. > > Typically when I rip a DVD, I use the next-to-the-top setting. > I can't remember what it is called, but it is a very good copy > of the original but skips the menus. If I really want to keep > the menus, I use the top setting. No image loss. > > > Somebody mentioned that Linux DVD players are not up to par. > > There isn't really any such thing as a "linux dvd player" so > much as there are linux software players that can play > DVDs. Xine (IMHO) is as good as any software player > out there, windows players included. There may be a > *slight* difference between my Denon and Xine, but > not so much that I want to go back to using it. I'm > actually thinking of selling it to finance some additional > (probably 3 or 4) frontends. > > > If you found one that is please inform us. We rent a lot of DVD > > and I can't see copying them all to HD before playing them. > > No need to do that. You can set up your system to automatically > launch xine when a dvd is inserted into a frontend. > > > > >Thanks again for all the help, > > No problemo. Remember these are just my opinions... > > >Chris Lopeman > > Paul > > > > _______________________________________________
I'm a huge Onkyo fan. I love their recievers. My brother got the HTIAB rig from them with an almost replica reciever for about the same price. I almost killed him, he knows better than to get those ;) Anyway, I went to check it out, and there are a few qualities that my reciever has that his doesn't that I would definitely want. What I'm basically saying is that even though I love Onkyo, I wouldn't get their all-in-one solution. Get the reciever you want. I disagree with the above about the speakers. I find it easier to upgrade the speakers later, spend big on the reciever now. But, a good point is made that speakers are what you hear, reciever is what you route your components through, so to each their own. I ended up eventually getting some JBL Home 6.1 Home Theatre speakers off ebay for ~300 bucks, they retailed for ~800 so it was a good deal ;) They sound extremely good, and I don't attribute it all to the speakers, the reciever has a lot to do with it. Anyway, my 2 cents on that side of things... Chad _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
