McKeegan
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Hello all. I could really use some help from you streaming experts.
Here's my situation:
I backed up my DVD collection to .ISO files years ago with only the main title, main English audio, and English subtitle tracks (I used DVDShrink to strip out all the bits I didn't want). I used softmodded Xboxes running XBMC to launch the ISOs which were stored on a network share. This worked great! I scrolled through a list of DVD covers, found the movie I wanted to watch and selected it. The movie immediately started playing with subtitles enabled.
My problem now, however, is that I want to start ripping my Blu-ray discs and use them in the same manner. We all know that an Xbox is incapable of playing back HD content, so I need a new streamer.
My requirements:
The folder structure that I'll want looks like this:
[Movies]
[Music]
[Pictures]
[TV episodes]
[Home videos]
That's pretty much it. I'm deaf, I live in the United States, I want to stream Blu-rays with lossless video and audio, and I absolutely need to have subtitles (without spending literally hundreds of hours muxing subtitle rips onto a video file).
From the research I've done, I think I might be able to do this with a PlayOn!HD or a Popcorn Hour A-200, but I want to be sure before I buy. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish my goals (mainly the Blu-ray ripping with subtitles and which streamer to get)? My house is completely wired for a Gigabit network, so I do not want (nor do I need) a wireless solution.
What do you experts think?
EDIT: I should mention that I have a PS3 and an Xbox 360, but they have horrible subtitle support, and I don't think they'll do very well with straight Blu-ray rips anyway. But if you think one of my consoles will work for what I want to do, please let me know.
Here's my situation:
I backed up my DVD collection to .ISO files years ago with only the main title, main English audio, and English subtitle tracks (I used DVDShrink to strip out all the bits I didn't want). I used softmodded Xboxes running XBMC to launch the ISOs which were stored on a network share. This worked great! I scrolled through a list of DVD covers, found the movie I wanted to watch and selected it. The movie immediately started playing with subtitles enabled.
My problem now, however, is that I want to start ripping my Blu-ray discs and use them in the same manner. We all know that an Xbox is incapable of playing back HD content, so I need a new streamer.
My requirements:
- SUBTITLES! - The single most important requirement is subtitle support. I am almost completely deaf and without subtitles, a movie is not very entertaining to me. This is why XBMC was so awesome.
- Time consideration - I don't want to spend hundreds of hours transcoding/encoding/muxing, etc my Blu-ray collection. Storage space is not an issue for me. I want to be able to just rip the Blu-ray disc with the bits I want (Main feature, main English audio, English subtitles).
- The streamer thus needs to be able to read a raw/uncompressed Blu-ray rip and play back the video, audio, and subtitles when selected. I don't really want/need BD menu support.
- I have a Sony HD camcorder, and I'd like the streamer to be able to play the AVCHD files generated by the camcorder.
- I'll soon be recording TV shows and sporting events on my Win 7 PC. I'd like the streamer to access/play these files.
- Multi-source support - I've got my DVD collection on one drive and it's full. I want to start my Blu-ray rip collection on a new drive, so the streamer needs to be able to access/mount more than one network location.
- I'd like a UI that's similar in presentation to XBMC, meaning, I like scrolling through DVD covers to find what I want to watch.
The folder structure that I'll want looks like this:
[Movies]
[Music]
[Pictures]
[TV episodes]
[Home videos]
That's pretty much it. I'm deaf, I live in the United States, I want to stream Blu-rays with lossless video and audio, and I absolutely need to have subtitles (without spending literally hundreds of hours muxing subtitle rips onto a video file).
From the research I've done, I think I might be able to do this with a PlayOn!HD or a Popcorn Hour A-200, but I want to be sure before I buy. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish my goals (mainly the Blu-ray ripping with subtitles and which streamer to get)? My house is completely wired for a Gigabit network, so I do not want (nor do I need) a wireless solution.
What do you experts think?
EDIT: I should mention that I have a PS3 and an Xbox 360, but they have horrible subtitle support, and I don't think they'll do very well with straight Blu-ray rips anyway. But if you think one of my consoles will work for what I want to do, please let me know.
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