[Goggles]

Here's the situation.

My brother has no cable. None. Probably won't net any for awhile because money is squirrly. Similarly they have no internet. So I was wanting to do something nice for them and build a box that will let them play everything they've got.

Was thinking 'OK fine Raspberry Pi 2 with an attached hard drive in a nice-ish case so it doesn't look like a hacked together mess.Then I started to wonder what else can be done.

They have no internet, but given I will be building and doing set up I have Internet and can do any media scraping and the like.

Big thing is 'what else can I do other than just 'here is a big list of your movies'?

I'd considered setting up psudolive TV along with stuff ripped off youtube, vimeo, and the like they might enjoy for a more TV-like experience but I dunno.

I'm not even sure if the Pi2 is the right option here. Halfway want to put a DVD drive in so any media not ripped is doable.

Any general things that you folks can chip in?

Right now using makemkv+vidcorder to convert everything to mp4 to conserve drive space.

Just a case of I know there's probably more than I'm seeing, but I don't know what.

[UsefulG]

Small point but when you have finished and scraped everything using your internet connection I suggest exporting the library information and images to sit with the media files so that if he hoses Kodi you can rebuild the info and images without an internet connection.

[amedia]

If there is no internet,there will have to be a large storage for the media. A NUC with a 1TB 2.5 hard drive would be more practical. With USB inputs you could use a portable USB storage to add. It all depends on the money.