2010-06-08, 20:39
I rip my DVD's with CloneDVD2 from Slysoft and rip my Bluray disks with Clown_BD (freeware). AnyDVDHD (slysoift once again) is always running to handle decryption.
I rip Blu rays to BluRay format (looks like what is on the disk) with certain stuff missing (alternate languages, alternate angles, basically just the main movie no trailers or bothersome dire warnings). Clown_BD is really just a workflow manager for a ripper (eac3to), a muxer (tsmuxer) and an image burner which I do not use. I rip with no transcoding so I get the highest quality images. The only disk that has failed is Hidalgo which I believe is a bad copy.
DVD's are ripped to standard video TS format.
I have no problem playing either types of rips on the XBMC (I use playfile therough the HTTPAPI since my theater system has an integrated Jukebox/library system. I point XBMC to either the m2ts file for blue ray or the video_TS.ifo for DVD's.
On XBMC I do not get True HD or Master audio but someday..... The rips do include these formats. When I send the files to a Dune player they play perfectly (except for Avatar which has some momentary audio drops) and the TrueHD and Master Audio codecs are invoked as the streams are there and the Dune player handles them.
Between the Dune player and XBMC The Dune player wins on "Appliance Like" as it is trivial to set up and basically works out of the box with an internal file browser, and smb for NAS stored files. No knowledge of Linux, Ubuntu, command lines, Windows is required.
The XBMC wins on flexibility for its internal jukebox, scraping, and general wow factor!
Dune wins on audio as it can play the new BluRay formats (True HD and Master Audio) .
Picture quality is very very close between the two.
Note the XBMC is running on an Asrock ION 330-PRO
Street price for the systems are about the same $300 to $400 depending on options. Dune comes with a Remote.
I rip Blu rays to BluRay format (looks like what is on the disk) with certain stuff missing (alternate languages, alternate angles, basically just the main movie no trailers or bothersome dire warnings). Clown_BD is really just a workflow manager for a ripper (eac3to), a muxer (tsmuxer) and an image burner which I do not use. I rip with no transcoding so I get the highest quality images. The only disk that has failed is Hidalgo which I believe is a bad copy.
DVD's are ripped to standard video TS format.
I have no problem playing either types of rips on the XBMC (I use playfile therough the HTTPAPI since my theater system has an integrated Jukebox/library system. I point XBMC to either the m2ts file for blue ray or the video_TS.ifo for DVD's.
On XBMC I do not get True HD or Master audio but someday..... The rips do include these formats. When I send the files to a Dune player they play perfectly (except for Avatar which has some momentary audio drops) and the TrueHD and Master Audio codecs are invoked as the streams are there and the Dune player handles them.
Between the Dune player and XBMC The Dune player wins on "Appliance Like" as it is trivial to set up and basically works out of the box with an internal file browser, and smb for NAS stored files. No knowledge of Linux, Ubuntu, command lines, Windows is required.
The XBMC wins on flexibility for its internal jukebox, scraping, and general wow factor!
Dune wins on audio as it can play the new BluRay formats (True HD and Master Audio) .
Picture quality is very very close between the two.
Note the XBMC is running on an Asrock ION 330-PRO
Street price for the systems are about the same $300 to $400 depending on options. Dune comes with a Remote.
