Suggestions for a DVD Video on Demand System?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @02:50PM from the serving-it-up-when-you-want-it dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I was paid, with about 1000 DVD movies, by a video rental store that owed me money and then subsequently went out of business. I'd like to rip a couple hundred of them to a 1 TB disk array, and serve them up to my big screen, via a video on demand system. However, all the systems I can find for interfacing computer network to the plasma display only serve up the basic MPEG files, and not the entire ripped DVDs with their menus, etc. What systems would Slashdot readers suggest that could manage the ripped DVD files as a complete disk, and serve them up?"

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Re:You'll never watch all that!! by klevin · 2004-02-24 15:30 · Score: 0, Troll

Just saw "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." Talk about overrated. I kept watching, thinking, surely it'll get better. I was wrong. It rather reminded me of "2001: A Space Odessey." There were bits and pieces that were pretty good, but they were overwhelmed by the rest of it.
Re:why recompress? by pHDNgell · 2004-02-24 16:27 · Score: 0, Troll

you realize this works just as easily on a pc?

Really? The standard Windows DVD player will play a VIDEO_TS folder with with full menus and everything from any location?

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