<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM, david w. millians <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:millia@panix.com">millia@panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
But the question is: how best to retentively copy those dvds? I want all<br>
the features; I don't want to save space; I want all the languages and<br>
audio options and what not. Can one just copy the files over, and the<br>
players will handle the decss'ing on their own, like VLC does? Or do I<br>
*have* to do the handbrake ripping type thing anyway to make them usable?</blockquote><div><br> If you're going to be using XBMC, which you should be if you're using a hacked xbox, then you should take a look at the wikipedia page [0]. So, what you are going to want to do is burn an iso image of the dvd and then you can stream it without a problem. I don't think you'll want to copy it over to the xbox due to the FAT32 file size limitation and the xbox hd not being that big. <br>
<br>I've been using k9copy to rip my dvds to avi. It provides a wide range of codecs to use, although the interface is a little clunky and its a PITA if the dvd has multiple "title" sections. I'll have to give handbrake a look. <br>
<br>-Steve<br><br>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC#Video_playback_in_detail">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC#Video_playback_in_detail</a><br></div></div><br>