my new HTPC + Nas server

[res0nat0r]

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I don't know about ratio/audio per movie, but I know if you click whatever button you have bound (keyboard <enter> for me), it will bring up the navi menu with forward/stop/pause etc. Clicking on the eye icon will allow you to select/deslect subs. Mine remembers each movie between plays etc.

The XBMC wiki has a ton of info on it, this prob has what you need:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Videos

[Simon Preston]

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Cheers. seems to work for the subtitles side of things.
Next question: I have 2 HD DVD's and an X Box 360 HD DVD player. Know anyway I can rip those 2 DVD's to x264 format or similar?

[res0nat0r]

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I dont know a whole lot about windows programs for this, but you could check this out:

http://handbrake.fr/

[Simon Preston]

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What about Mac based programs? Or even Linux?
Questions questions. :P
Oh and if anyone knows how to get an XBox 360 universal remote walking with Windows then feel free to share. The Asus remote gives me basic forward, back, up, down, enter and escape but thats it.

[Simon Preston]

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Must admit, I'm getting nowhere fast with this HD DVD ripping. I took all the files off the disc with AnyDVD but I can't seem to find a way to make it all into one video file (I don't really want menus or extras or the like). Handbrake can recode video files but not take a group of files and turn it into one.

[res0nat0r]

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Hummm....let me try and look around and see if I can find anything.

[res0nat0r]

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there doesnt seem to be much tutorial info out there on how to do this...i did see this though:

http://www.makemkv.com/

[Simon Preston]

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Cheers fella. Think tbh I'm gonna end up just looking on torrent sites for my HD DVD movies. Seems to be a hell of a lot of effort.

[Kamal]

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I've used makemkv a lot past couple of months. best program (imo) in making clean / uncompressed mkv rips out of blurays. easy as fuck too.

[Simon Preston]

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Cool. Maybe I will try it out then. Must admit the more I'm learning about XBMC the more I realise just how powerful it can be. Currently playing with a test setup on a spare hard drive and as well as making my TV's and movies easier to browse through, I'm looking at adding on my emulators so I can play all my Nintendo, Sega and Playstation 1 games direct from there.
Once I've tinkered with it all and learnt how powerful and flexible it is I'll probably build a tiny silent HTPC which either holds everything locally or uses a network drive.

Another thing I've just thought of. Are there any plugins which would allow you to rip a DVD direct from inside XBMC and add it to the library? Reckon that would be a super cool feature.

[Simon Preston]

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Just found a guide to getting ePSX emulator running correctly on XBMC. Will give it a go this evening.

http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discussion/137744-launch-epsxe-w-game-bat-file.html

Think I'm now completely converted to this.

[res0nat0r]

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^let me know if you find any guides for the NES or SNES I want to set up an emulator on here but haven't gotten around to it.

also http://forum.xbmc.org/ has a crapload of info for XBMC related stuff.

[Simon Preston]

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I've got the Megadrive/Genesis emulation running sweet as a nut. There's a plugin called Launcher which will do it. Using Fusion 3.6 for the emulation itself. I've found if you put the games box art in the same folder as the rom and give it the same name (barring the extension) then it will load that up automatically.



I can't quite seem to get that method to work with ePSXe and I reckon that batch file method I posted above may not work quite as I'd like. But I'll keep plugging away at it. I've got the Launcher side of things working. It's just getting eSPXe to autoload rather than wanting to load it's own GUI first.

Guide to setting it up:

http://lifehacker.com/5523672/turn-your-xbmc-media-center-into-a-video-game-console

[ganjamo]

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handbrake works perfectly on mac Simon.

[dusk]

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^^^ I second that. Handbrake is definitely the software for me. As much as I'd love to keep uncompressed HD mkv's on my HDD, I'm afraid of running outta space.