Dear folks, I need some help on this.
My setup: a few XBMC's in the household, quite a few on a server
... works brilliant. Now, I recently bought a bunch of BluRay's (Amazon offer). I have a decent (stand-alone) player but would prefer to have those BD on the server. Size doesn't really matter. I made some tests with the current trial version of DVDFab which I'm interested in buying - the full version with life-time support. Two options I found so far: BluRay-Rip (preferred MKV) or BluRay-Copy (in my case: to HD). The first one works pretty good, I managed to convert (two way pass with highest transfer-rate) 'How to train your dragon' in under two hours, which would be very acceptable. The direct comparison of the rip (running in VLC) and the original (running in PowerDVD) on the same screen (flipping back and forth) showed that the rip doesn't quite match the original quality. Some details (hairs) are missing and a bit of 'noise' is noticeable. The next try was a full rip of the main movie to the HD, roughly 25GB. I expect the 'original' quality. The problem is, XBMC (11.0) doesn't play it properly. Not only that it starts somewhere in the middle of the movie, it also shows - presumably at every scene change - very strange colours. It almost looks like vertical colour lines, but only covering portions of the screen. Also, VLC has this problem.
Now, I really would like to go on with this BluRay issue but don't know in which direction to go. Advise is needed.
Thanks.
My setup: a few XBMC's in the household, quite a few on a server
... works brilliant. Now, I recently bought a bunch of BluRay's (Amazon offer). I have a decent (stand-alone) player but would prefer to have those BD on the server. Size doesn't really matter. I made some tests with the current trial version of DVDFab which I'm interested in buying - the full version with life-time support. Two options I found so far: BluRay-Rip (preferred MKV) or BluRay-Copy (in my case: to HD). The first one works pretty good, I managed to convert (two way pass with highest transfer-rate) 'How to train your dragon' in under two hours, which would be very acceptable. The direct comparison of the rip (running in VLC) and the original (running in PowerDVD) on the same screen (flipping back and forth) showed that the rip doesn't quite match the original quality. Some details (hairs) are missing and a bit of 'noise' is noticeable. The next try was a full rip of the main movie to the HD, roughly 25GB. I expect the 'original' quality. The problem is, XBMC (11.0) doesn't play it properly. Not only that it starts somewhere in the middle of the movie, it also shows - presumably at every scene change - very strange colours. It almost looks like vertical colour lines, but only covering portions of the screen. Also, VLC has this problem. Now, I really would like to go on with this BluRay issue but don't know in which direction to go. Advise is needed.
Thanks.
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