![]() ![]() Hopefully somewhere in the gibberish we gave some insight to the orig question.Converting to MKV using MakeMKV does not save any space over ripping to ISO (nothing substantial anyway), except if you don't rip the extras. Sounds like a nice setup, does the M圜loud stuff take care of any transcoding for the media or is that left up to the media boxes?Īs for the OP's question, we've gone way past what he/she's looking for. (I can also copy up to 90MB/second through ethernet to the WDMYCLOUD) It idles when not needed and auto-spins up if I watch a movie. The WDMYCLOUD for example works awesome and requires very little power. ![]() Probably doesn't help you, but thought I'd clarify a bit. They also save photos through the internet and they end up on the WDMYCLOUD. When they get another TV I'll just add another suitable media box to that to share the same content. I ripped her DVD's as ISO's so they can access those (with menus) easily or use Netflix. For example, at my sisters she has a WDTV media player that supports Netflix and a 3TB WDMYCLOUD. I setup things for my parents and sister as well, so I need it to be a pretty simple "just works" setup. I can even play music at my sisters house 500 miles away (too much bandwidth upload for video though). I access movies via a media box for each TV, plus any networked device (on PC it's Windows Explorer and I use K-Lite to play). I have a 4TB unit attached to my router via an ethernet cable (and a 4TB WD Elements plugged into the WDMYCLOUD as a backup unit). My network distribution if not clear is actually based on a WDMYCLOUD. I'm not much of a Linux user, just Kodi-linux. Everything I want to play, plays, I have options for every media type under the sun and netflix's app for win8/10 has a great interface. I looked in to it when I was building up and finally said screw it and got a wireless keyboard with a touch pad and couldn't be happier. You're in the Linux camp I'm guessing, but I've found a Win10 system with suitable hardware and software takes care of all the problems you mentioned except for the remote issue. I found the nice thing about setting up an HTPC is being able to use it as a media server for the rest of my network and, with the right software, a streaming device for when I'm away from home. I may try again in the future, but for now the best combination for me is:Ģ) media player (model depends on what codec/container support is such as H.264, H.265, Matroska etc, as well as NETFLIX and other addons?)ġ) HTPC - startup/remote usually a hassleĢ) BD player for media - Cinavia audio watermark becoming standard (can't playback rips), and not all media supported (later versions of H.264 etc)Ĭ) stream to mediabox from WD MY CLOUD (attached to router and accessible by all networked devices for my movie rips which include BluRay ISO's) *actually, I find HTPC's in general to be problematic. Others I've used:įor an HTPC I'd probably go with a Kodi-Linux setup, however it's not yet working properly with BluRay. As said, there's some free software you can find. Most or all don't have usable software for BD playback, at least not at a reasonable price that I could find. Note there's a cheaper drive but ratings aren't as good (the "14s" variant). I personally use and like PowerDVD in my HTPC because I'm lazy and fix this stuff for a living and didn't want to deal with it when I'm not being paid. As for the DVDFab, only the paid pro version allows for disk playback, the free version does ISO file playback so you're back to the whole paid version thing. I've heard mixed reviews but its worth a shot for free. If you're comfortable modifying VLC, go with what theunliked linked and see how it works out. PowerDVD is the best known, but there are a number of ones out there. I just went through this hassle for a few build in the last two months and found the best bet was getting an OEM drive like the LG UH12NS30 and then picking up a separate up to date software suite. Since bluray software has to be updated all the frickin time, the life span of the software is limited to how long the manufacture wants to support the one version. Most of the blueray players bundled with software tend to have out of date software. ![]()
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