Lots of ripped dvds

by **steele** on Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:12 pm

I have lots of ripped dvds, ripped using dvd decrypter and IFOedit so I just have the movie files. I now want to watch them. Can xlobby use a hauppague pvr350 yet to watch these movies? or is this a plugin thing?

steele

by **mattdisaster** on Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:31 pm

Your question doesnt really make sense. I guess overall no xlobby cant let you watch them, since its just a front end that ties various programs together . It does not(on its own) play movies, mp3s, games. But if you set up xlobby with your media player of choice(say zoomplayer), and all your movies into a database- then yes you can watch movies through xlobby. As for the other thing, the pvr350 doesnt really have anything to do with playing your ripped dvds. The pvr 350 is a tv tuning/pvr card that does just that. I dont really get what you're asking though....

Good luck...

-matt

by **steele** on Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:24 pm

Hi Matt

The pvr350 is an encoder and decoder so I should be able to use it to decode the mpeg2 dvd files that I have ripped? What I was asking is wether there was a easy way for xlobby to use/look at the decoder (hardware) rather than a software player.

Thanks for your quick reply

steele

by **Roscoe62** on Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:08 pm

Hi Steele,

I don't think the Hauppauge cards were designed to do that. In fact I haven't heard of any software out there that could be used to make the PVR cards do what you want them to do. I suspect the cards would not support the DVD protocol (don't know whether that's the right word) - yes they support MPeg2 but DVD needs more than that to work properly.

Was there a reason you didn't want to use a software player to play back your DVD files?

by **Tracie** on Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:55 pm

I would think that even if you could get it to work, that it would be way more of a PITA than just getting a good software player. I don't mean to be a downer, but that just seems like it would be taking the long way around to get to the same point.

by **steele** on Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:34 am

The main reason that I was trying to avoid a software player was that I have an MII10000 epia board so not the fastest thing in the world, but dvd software playback is still possible. I thought that using the pvr would be a neat solution. Does a sigma designs hollywood Plus card do dvd playback?

As for software players I know that xlobby suppports TT and the other one but are there any good free players out there?

steele

by **sp00head** on Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:41 am

the MII10000 has onboard MPEG2 accelerator , so something like powerdvd can use the hardware acceleration to take the pressure off the cpu.

by **steele** on Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:06 am

true, been looking at the theatertek and zoomplayer websites. Would either of these support the onboard hardware acceleration?

I think I would choose the Theatertek over the Zoomplayer, seems to have lots of remote control support and better quality picture? What do people think Theatretek (£40) or Zoomplayer (that's free?).

Steele

by **dalanik** on Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:27 am

steele wrote:I think I would choose the Theatertek over the Zoomplayer, seems to have lots of remote control support and better quality picture? What do people think Theatretek (£40) or Zoomplayer (that's free?).

Never seen theatretek, but even before I found XLobby, Zoom was my favorite player. Simply because it's best in fullscreen mode - lots of so called "navigators" that are really usefull for htpcs - easily control the player via remote, transparent navigators (similar to overlays in xlobby) with menues etc. showing video underneath... all u need is up/dn/lt/right/enter keys on the remote.

BTW, I believe that free version of zoom can't play DVDs. In order to play 'em you need zoom professional.... (at least that's how it was with version 3)

D.

by **jowaldo** on Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:43 pm

Yup it definitley still costs for zoomplayer pro, but its only $20, and its well worth it imho.