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| 321944 | 2005-02-06 02:18:00 | Hi all,I'm looking to set up an HTPC.I would like to put my DVD movies onto a (hot)swapable HDD(possibley have to go scsi)does anyone have any experience with this??how big a HDD would I need??(ie.how much space does the average movie need??).By the way this system is going to be(hopefully)built around Athlon 64 3200.Any helpful pointers anyone??? :D | B B (6979) | ||
| 321945 | 2005-02-06 02:45:00 | yeah well if you put them on hdd you need to remove the copy protection - illegal territory. Most mmovies including special features are around 7 GB in size direct from the DVD. Don't see the point of SCSI, you probably want a RAID system to avoid loss with HD failure. You want a quiet system. Since DVD data transfer rate is at the most 10 megabits/second, you don't need a fast HD at all, USB2 should be fine. I just use a network connection. And there is no need for a fast processor - 1 GHz would be enough. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 321946 | 2005-02-06 02:48:00 | It'll be better just getting an internal IDE dvd player . Depends on how many dvds you want to copy . Each would be about 3-4gb + most probably . You may be able to compress/squeeze them with something, and if u want to play other zone dvds, if u have any . And/or a program that plays allzone dvds . Depending on how long the movies are . I wouldnt bother about hdd space . Unless you were into something like video editing In which case, you'lll need a fair bit of hdd space . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 321947 | 2005-02-06 06:26:00 | Hi all,I'm looking to set up an HTPC.I would like to put my DVD movies onto a (hot)swapable HDD(possibley have to go scsi)does anyone have any experience with this??how big a HDD would I need??(ie.how much space does the average movie need??).By the way this system is going to be(hopefully)built around Athlon 64 3200.Any helpful pointers anyone??? :D I am just getting myself a TVIX from Australia. It will have a 250GB HDD in it and you can play avi's, mpg's, dump DVD's to it and play them, use it via its USB port as a removeable drive, play MP3's, show JPG's. See here www.videoguys.com.au It is not a PC as such but then I already have one and my drives are already full so need the space. This will free it and means only a small box to take with me anywhere. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 321948 | 2005-02-06 07:01:00 | Hi all,I'm looking to set up an HTPC.I would like to put my DVD movies onto a (hot)swapable HDD(possibley have to go scsi)does anyone have any experience with this??)built around Athlon 64 3200.Any helpful pointers anyone??? :D Why do you want scsi? Expensive and noisy :@@: The system you have with a good sound card, (possibly better gfx card?), would do quite nicely, and it might be possible to make it almost fanless. A64? A bit overkill imho... Unless you wanted to watch movies through an optical drive, you could do away with that too, and just fit an ordinary hdd in its place. I recon spend the money on a good case that you like, some quite fans, or passive (eg zalman) cooling stuff, and a decent sound card. Oh yeah, and several ordinary hdds of the biggest size you can afford. I presume you have the speakers/reciever/tv thing sorted Movies aren't the most taxing thing to run on a comp... so perhaps keep the 64 for gaming? my 2c worth anyway |
Curious George (3535) | ||
| 321949 | 2005-02-06 10:25:00 | Anything 800Mhz + would suffice for perfect DVD Playback. USB 2.0 is more than fine for HDD Storage, so try buying a standard IDE Drive (Cheap 80gb ones from supercheappc.biz - and because its external you can easily have 5-6) and an External Drive Caddy for about $40ish (Also from SuperCheap). VLC (VideoLAN Client) from videolan.org will play any region DVD's for free DVD Shrink from dvdshrink.org will back them up to HDD (I know the fingers of the little munchkins in my house tend to kill things very quickly). dvdidle.com has DVD Region Free which can make DVD Shrink backup DVD's from any region I'd recommend something like an SB!Live which you can pickup nice and cheap - They do good 5.1 Channel surround sound (Running it here on my desktop with some Creative 5.1 Channel speakers also). A good nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 will set you back around $80 and it'll do TV-Out too... If its just a Home Theatre PC - Why not go Linux and save $200 on an OS? Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 321950 | 2005-02-06 19:13:00 | You're forgetting about an X-Box for use as a HTPC... save your pennies and go with the modified X-Box and put the money into more / larger hard drives in your current PC. Then network the 2 together. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 321951 | 2005-02-06 19:31:00 | You could always install Linux on it and run it that way - 4x USB 2.0 Slots should be enough! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 321952 | 2005-02-06 20:30:00 | If you rip DVD to SVCD they are just over 700Mb in size, some movies require you to split them in two as they are too large, but the software will do this for you. What case are you getting? Some of the desktop flat styles have a built in PSU with a low rating, meaning you cant run the fastest CPU's properly. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 321953 | 2005-02-07 01:34:00 | SVCD is pretty horrible quality. I would keep them as DVD images or something. If there was a good 400 GB hard drive in there, space wouldn't be an issue. | E|im (87) | ||
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