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Hi I'm a confused new user, I have a raspberry PI 2B 1Gb and got a micro SD card (8gb class 10 Kingston) supposedly with open ELEC and KODI installed, it hung up with the coloured square on screen. I went to the Pi site and downloaded noobs, I then installed KODI and open ELEC but not raspbian. this seems to run but I have some questions, firstly do I need the mpeg codec to run ISO images made with any DVD and clone DVD? if so how would I get to the command line to put them in? I tried XBMC years back when the first Raspberry Pi came out and there was something in the settings that let me put it in via XBMC, is that still an option if so where do I find it? To buy the codec (if I need it) I need the embedded serial number from the card, as it boots straight into KODI I can't see how to get back to the command line to find it. Have I installed all I need to have a fully working open ELEC and KODI system or do I need to reformat and start again, if so what programs do I need to install, I'm running Windows & on my PC and want to use the Pi as a media centre on my TV streaming DVDs (ISO format), photos and music MP3 format all from my NAS.
Lastly is there an "ideal" format for my backed up films, I'm not interested in anything but the main movie, do I need to preserve the menus (an option in clone DVD) etc. What would be the most reliable settings in Clone DVD?
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2015-07-18, 20:37
(This post was last modified: 2015-07-18, 20:37 by dandnsmith.)
I feel confused about some of your questions.
OpenELEC includes kodi.
Whether you need the mpeg2 codec depends on what encoding your video content uses -
DVD will often use DIVX or similar.
The RPi code is,perhaps,on the system summary info.
The players for kodi still have dvd menu problems.
All you need for a full system is OpenELEC or OSMC, as they each include kodi,
or you could use NOOBS and boot into either.
HTH
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Rubbish DVD uses mpeg2 not divx (which is mpeg-4).
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My mistake - must have been thinking about something else.
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I think Pi 2 can handle SD MPEG2 using software/CPU decoding, but the MPEG2 license is only a few bucks to enable hardware decoding. I would just try it without the hardware decoder and see if software decoding can handle the videos you have.
I think you can ssh into the Pi when you are using OpenELEC to get the SN. There's a bunch of guides floating around about how to do it. You can even just throw another SD card on there and look it up using Raspbian if you wanted to, because the SN will always be the same.
You don't need to reformat anything. Adding the hardware decoding key is just a small edit to a text file. You can pull the SD card out of the Pi and stick it in any computer, and you'll see some drives. One of them has a file called config.txt, and you add the key to that.
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Ah, that's right, there are a large number of interlaced DVDs. God, I hate interlacing.
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for backing up (rippin) my Dvd's without the menu (wich i don't car eof) i use Makemkv, you can select what audio languages and subtitles you want and it makes you and mkv, wich is working perfectly with kodi (openelec on my Rpi2)
Works with movies and tv shows.
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Update - With the latest Raspberry Pi it seems like the codec is not needed as the processing is fast enough not to need hardware acceleration (so far) that is with ISO images of DVD movies. that's with stuff ripped (backed up) using any DVD and Clone DVD, Sill a few problems with menus but as the default seems to be play hitting enter gets to the movie, this I can rectify as I go. Network file system seems to be the best option to access files from my readyNas Duo2. And jpcolin mkv may be a good solution to ripping DVDs but I have 900+ movies already in ISO format and don't want to go through years of recoding!!
Any other observations I have I will post up. Thanks everyone for your valuable input.
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Makemkv does not re-encode. It rips to mkv container, no change to the video or audio streams.
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OK I've got my CODEC now how do I get it into my raspberry Pi SD card? with the Pi connected to the TV I can't see how to get to a command line to edit the config.txt, and with the card in my PC's reader it only shows a small part of the card. Presumably it's hidden somehow. Is there a piece of software that I can run on my PC to allow me into the file?
