DVD Solutions.
Jul. 20th, 2011 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingEveryone with any interest at all in such things already knows that the best available experience for watching TV and movies is also the cheapest, and the least legal. To the point where it's almost less annoying to take a season of TV on DVD, rip it, and play it on a TV connected to a media player than it is to swap the bloody DVDs.
However, disk space is still not unlimited, and so since I own the DVDs of Deadwood and had seen it, I deleted the computer copy.
Now I'm watching Deadwood again (because I felt like it) and *holy crap* it is UNBELIEVABLY annoying to have to swap disks, wait for menus, and be unable to simply queue up a season to play one after another.
Help me out, lazyweb: What are solutions for this, other than "download a pirated copy of Deadwood to go with my DVDs because the pirated version is better" or "swap disks and take hours ripping and encoding Deadwood"? Is there an easy way to make VLC Media player ignore the menus and go directlty to the .vob files, and enqueue those so at least I only have to swap disks every 2-3 episodes? Do people even *make* multi-disk DVD players any more, and if so is there a cheap one I can use for shit like this? And if so, it had BETTER be cheaper than a 2TB external disk to just store more AVIs on, I'm just saying.
Because right now, I'm swapping disks and dealing with the menus as an annoying-but-less-annoying-than-the-rip-process hazard of owning a legal copy of something. And that's just a pain in the ass.
However, disk space is still not unlimited, and so since I own the DVDs of Deadwood and had seen it, I deleted the computer copy.
Now I'm watching Deadwood again (because I felt like it) and *holy crap* it is UNBELIEVABLY annoying to have to swap disks, wait for menus, and be unable to simply queue up a season to play one after another.
Help me out, lazyweb: What are solutions for this, other than "download a pirated copy of Deadwood to go with my DVDs because the pirated version is better" or "swap disks and take hours ripping and encoding Deadwood"? Is there an easy way to make VLC Media player ignore the menus and go directlty to the .vob files, and enqueue those so at least I only have to swap disks every 2-3 episodes? Do people even *make* multi-disk DVD players any more, and if so is there a cheap one I can use for shit like this? And if so, it had BETTER be cheaper than a 2TB external disk to just store more AVIs on, I'm just saying.
Because right now, I'm swapping disks and dealing with the menus as an annoying-but-less-annoying-than-the-rip-process hazard of owning a legal copy of something. And that's just a pain in the ass.
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Date: 2011-07-21 02:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-21 03:57 pm (UTC)'cause of the new security feature, I had to click a link in an email to say 'Yes, the new computer is me", but even that was quick and easy — no 'five computers authenticated maximum' or stuff like that.