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Mac Mini - Crystal HD - BD format and video library ? - ultra - 2010-12-10 Hi there, I am using an core duo mac mini with the intel GMA onboard graphics for DVDs currently and all works fine. Now I think about upgrading with the Crystal HD to add Blue Rays support what leads to a few questions. 1) What formats does XBMC support for 1080p content ? So how do I need to store/convert the blue rays ? 2) Is there any way to have the same nice library display there is for DVDs also for BlueRays ? So basically do the same as currently done for DVDs with BlueRays. Thanks in advance for any help. ultra - idioteque - 2010-12-10 Do you want full bluray disk experiance like menu's and or is just the movie enough for you? - ultra - 2010-12-10 Full experience with menu's would be great and the final target. If not the only the movie will also do as a first step. - idioteque - 2010-12-10 XBMC can play almost any fileformat. The hardware is the main problem. 1: The Mac mini on its own is not fast enough to play any scene mkv or bluray's 2: Inserting a Crystal HD will make it play most mkv or blu-ray files (not disks) as long as they are within specs. (most real scene releases are now a day's) 3: The mac cannot play any blu-ray disks with menu's, retail or backed-up, for lack of software and licences. 4: the Mac with VLC or XBMC can play the main movie or can read the file structure of a blu-ray disk but not 100% reliable. (might stutter when going to next part of the movie) 5: Not all HD audio formats are compatible on the mac. MA etc. AC3 and DTS are of course fine. 6: inserting a Cristal HD, you wil lose Wifi but that can be fixes by using a USB wifi dongle My advise: 1: If storage space is not an option and you want the best quality and compatiblity, just copy the largest MTS file and put it in a folder. Like \The Wrestler (2008)\0000.mts XBMC will download all movie info and show up in your library 2: Rip the movie to mkv to preserve diskspace but lose some quality in auto and videoif you wish. 3: Buy a NAS with 4x 2TB disk RAID 5 for a total of $500. You dont want to lose all the work you put in building a movie collection disappear when a disk fails. This gives you 5,5 TB and if 1 disk fails you still keep al the data. I own a Netgear Readynas with Flexraid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexRAID) Is is easy for dummies. All is automatic. Goodluck - ultra - 2010-12-10 Thanks idioteque! This is already very helpful. I knew about the lack of BlueRay support of Mac, but this seems to be a good way of doing it. I have a NAS and other external storag, so that is ok. I will do some tests with XBMC library info and mts and mkv files. Sounds like a good way to do it. Thanks again ! - ultra - 2011-01-10 Thanks idioteque, found some time over Xmas to test some things, but up to now it did not work unfortunately. I copied the largest mts file to e.g. \Invasion\00000.mts and tried to get the movie information in XBMC but it did not work. Any ideas ? Do I need a special scraper or the mkv format ? BTW, I first tried to put a symbolic link to 00000.m2ts so that the structure would look like this \Invasion\00000.m2ts --> \Invasion\BDMV\STREAM\00000.m2ts But XBMC did not recognize the link. Any idea for that ? |