2016-01-07, 15:30
Just wanted to check what the latest view is on this?
I'm someone that wants to archive their personal movie collection which is a mix of mainstream DVDs & BluRays. I'm not worried by the amount of hard drive space required and so don't want to convert to different formats only to find a few years down the line I've lost something.
Playback needs to be reliable and offer the best sound/picture quality relevant to the AV capabilities of the viewing location the main one being a 4K 3D TV with a 7.1 AVR. It also needs to have a high WAF in terms of usability and Kodi seems fit in this regard.
On the face of it, it should be so simple as that's what any BluRay player offers. After a number of years I know this is simply not the case.
My current, some what old back-end is a WHS on an end-to-end hardwired Gb LAN with MyMovies.dk being used to rip DVDs to Video_TS folder structure and BluRays to .ISOs. Shares are offered both as SMB and NFS. At the time I thought this was the best 1for1 archiving method but that might have changed?
Playback platforms have been Windows Media centre, dropped for XBMC/Kodi on PC and other media boxes. Not one offers the reliabilty of a physical BluRay player dispite the content been off the shelf titles. The current box I'm playing with is a HiMedia Q5.
TIA
I'm someone that wants to archive their personal movie collection which is a mix of mainstream DVDs & BluRays. I'm not worried by the amount of hard drive space required and so don't want to convert to different formats only to find a few years down the line I've lost something.
Playback needs to be reliable and offer the best sound/picture quality relevant to the AV capabilities of the viewing location the main one being a 4K 3D TV with a 7.1 AVR. It also needs to have a high WAF in terms of usability and Kodi seems fit in this regard.
On the face of it, it should be so simple as that's what any BluRay player offers. After a number of years I know this is simply not the case.
My current, some what old back-end is a WHS on an end-to-end hardwired Gb LAN with MyMovies.dk being used to rip DVDs to Video_TS folder structure and BluRays to .ISOs. Shares are offered both as SMB and NFS. At the time I thought this was the best 1for1 archiving method but that might have changed?
Playback platforms have been Windows Media centre, dropped for XBMC/Kodi on PC and other media boxes. Not one offers the reliabilty of a physical BluRay player dispite the content been off the shelf titles. The current box I'm playing with is a HiMedia Q5.
TIA