I watch More TV Shows than movies
I used to watch My TV Shows from DVD
by Ripping Each Episode---But there are things you cannot RIP
And you Have to NAME Everything.
And sometimes an Episode would not RIP.
BUT there is something that I did NOT Realize.
When You RIP a DVD
You Rip the Copy Protection etc
Because it says FULL DVD.
When You RIP DVD thru ISO
It tells You the Stuff it has Removed
and Stuff it could not find.
I have several External Drives
and I figure the more I RIP
the less I will have to Download.
External Drives are Getting BIGGER
and the Price's are pretty Good.
ord1117
First: let me say something on topic.
When I click on "Discography" in the browser, If the artist is prolific there is a considerable list. Some of the later albums that I'm looking for are at the bottom of the list. When I add an album to the cue, I am bounced all the way back to the top of the Discography. Some of these collections are pages long, and it is very tedious to wind my way back in the list to where I was. I wonder if there is a way the developers could stop this from happening.
O.K.! Now I can ramble!
#ord1117, Someone after my own heart. TV shows take up three times more HD space than my Movies. I have Outlander season 6 sitting on my desk in DVD format. I'm looking at it as I type. I'm looking forward to getting it "In the can" so I can stream it over the LAN.
You're right. Ripping TV shows from DVD is difficult. I use a tagging program called Meta X. It helps. There is a one time fee of (I believe) $10.00 U.S. to purchase a license, but I found it worth it. If you have the name of the series, the season and the episode (In standard format) in the tag, Meta X can usually find it, (IE: Outlander - S06E01) but not always. If it doesn't, things, then get a little tedious. DVDFab often fills in enough of the information for Meta X to find it, and do a far better job of tagging each episode.
You're also right, that the cost of storage is dropping. It's not that I couldn't afford it, and I wouldn't have to fill all of the bays at once. I guess that I'm just a cheap S.O.B., and wonder how many months of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Paramount it would take to cover the cost of another 8 bay NAS, and load it with enterprise drives. I guess that it would however, end any streaming issues I have over the WAN due to spotty internet in this rural area. I do, continue to buy DVDs. There is a person at a local "Flea" market that sells them for $1.00 U.S. each, and has some (somewhat) recent releases. Not to mention the way I'm enticed in the stores by the latest releases before they hit the streamers. DVDs are also going the way of the Dodo (Extinct). If I'm going to start getting digital copies, I will need somewhere to store them. (:D Now you've gotten me to start thinking about it!)
You sound like a prime candidate for a NAS, or a simple RAID. Either way, I hope you have your HDD collection arrayed. From what you're describing, If one of your externals fail. the loss you suffer would be considerable.
As far as the Copy protection: I mentioned before, that I rip in MP4 format. When DVDFab backs up my DVDs in that format, I don't believe there is copy protection attached. I don't know if when you Copy weather the protection goes with it.
BTW: This was a while ago, but I had noticed at one time that even ripping in ISO that the frame height was only around 720. I wonder if the larger footprint is worth it. I welcome any input.
Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with the now useless physical Discs I own. Those too, I have a tendency to cling to. I've got quite an investment there.
