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Originally Posted by Geezer  Can you explain how you set this up in media center, cant seem to do it myself with ISO and .TS files. Media center doesnt see anything.
Step by step guife would be very helpful  |
I’ll run through the way that I have moved my DVDs over to Media Center and hopefully it will apply to your files as well.
EDIT: If you want to know how I archive my Blu-ray discs, then read here as well.
There is quite a lot out there on how to do this already, but they seem to be incomplete guides as I still couldn’t get it to work and had to sift through several threads on other websites to piece it together, so start by enabling the ‘DVD Library’ in Media Center; read this
Knowledge Base article (a quicker way to run regedit is to press 'windows' + 'r' then type regedit and hit return).
To put DVDs onto hard disk I use DVDFab Decrypter as it's updated regularly and enables you to only take the main movie with selected audio tracks (
there is this free version). When putting a DVD onto hard disk this will give you VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders contained in a folder called the title of the DVD which is in another folder called either Main Movie or Full DVD (depending on what you take off the DVD). Each DVD takes about 20 - 30 minutes.
Now my Main Movie folder sits on its own drive(s) (I use a couple of 500Gb Western Digital MyBooks with another couple of internal 500Gb drives). By just taking the Main Movie I'm averaging about 4.5Gb per film.
EDIT: You may not have to follow the mounting instructions that follow. Try jumping to the bottom and just adding your DVD backup folders in Media Center first.
Media Center still won't recognise these folders if you add them to your Media Library; it will only read them off a mounted folder. To do this:
- create a folder on C: drive called whatever you want (I created folders in C:\ called DVD01, DVD02 etc...), they'll always be empty so don't be too fussy about them.
- Then right click on My Computer and select manage.
- Under Storage you'll see Disk Management, select this and you'll see your drives.
- Right click on your hard disk that holds your DVDs and select Change Drive Letter and Partitions.
- Then click Add and select ‘Mount In The Following Empty NTFS Folder’ and point it to your empty folder(s) you created somewhere on C: drive.
- Then finally in Media Center under your DVD Library, right click and add your DVD01 folders to the library.
So now you should see them appear in your menu albeit without artwork. There are two (easy) ways to do this. You can either find the DVD’s artwork and save as ‘folder.jpg’ within the DVD’s folder, or you can use
dvdxml.com and download a small .xml file into each DVD folder, this will trigger Media Center to go online and download artwork and a film description from AMG.com. There are other ways to create your own .xml files but I just couldn’t be bothered with the effort.
Phew! I hope all this helps.