2008-07-17, 14:14
XBMC can already today rip Audio-CDs to the harddrive so how about also adding the ability to rip DVD-Video to the harddrive direct from XBMC GUI in the same manor? Same as WiSo's DVD2Xbox does, maybe we could even re-use the same code?
I am not talking transcoding/encoding to a other video codec format like Xvid or x264, I only mean rip to the harddrive and remove the CSS encryption and Macrovision protection, (same as DVD Decrypter and DVDFab Decrypter does in Windows), ..maybe add the option to rip as files or to an ISO, and of course automaticly add it to the library.
I think that would be great as it removes the need to even own a computer (or learn how to use software rippers on it) to rip DVD-Videos, simply pop it into your XBMC box in the living-room and rip it. Rent a DVD-Video and rip it and watch it when you have time.
What do you guys think?
PS! This is becoming a more an more popular feature in open source media centers, and even a couple of high-end commersial media centers has it now (though they add their own DRM protection to it to prevent copying to a other computer than it was ripped to).
I am not talking transcoding/encoding to a other video codec format like Xvid or x264, I only mean rip to the harddrive and remove the CSS encryption and Macrovision protection, (same as DVD Decrypter and DVDFab Decrypter does in Windows), ..maybe add the option to rip as files or to an ISO, and of course automaticly add it to the library.
I think that would be great as it removes the need to even own a computer (or learn how to use software rippers on it) to rip DVD-Videos, simply pop it into your XBMC box in the living-room and rip it. Rent a DVD-Video and rip it and watch it when you have time.
What do you guys think?
PS! This is becoming a more an more popular feature in open source media centers, and even a couple of high-end commersial media centers has it now (though they add their own DRM protection to it to prevent copying to a other computer than it was ripped to).