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More and more, I’m coming to the conclusion that - with limited exceptions, I’m sure - my HTPC setup is going to be the hub for my DVD and BD content, and that I’ll live with a small amount of media shelving to keep my limited supply of 4K UHD discs accessible. On the one hand I absolutely...

That’s my strategy as well. I have too many DVDs and BDs to want to keep out on display, and I don’t want to lose access to them - the HTPC as a more or less finished database takes care of that. My 4K disc purchases are much fewer and so it’s not unwieldy to keep a small collection of them...

For me, RAID was ruled out when I saw that the enclosure needed to make it all work was going to cost as much as the five or six drives that would go into it. It turns out Plex doesn’t care if, for example, Episode 1 of a show is on drive A, and Episode 2 is on drive B. They all show up...

I don’t have a raid; I just have a line of each drive plugged into my plex setup, and yeah, the backup does take a bit of time!

Can't you just use whatever streaming client your HTPC is set up with to play back on your iPhone with an alternate audio track? Or was the goal to get the audio playback locally without the bandwidth needed for streaming the full video signal?

I’m trying the free version of MakeMKV now and it’s ripping a DVD as MPEG2 (as expected). What do you use for the H264 transcode?

Quick update: I’ve been thinking about this again and I even found some old Handbrake DVD rips I did ages ago that I could use to test out the Oppo as a media player. The good is that it worked. The bad is that the interface wasn’t ideal for wanting to use it to browse an entire library...

I’m starting to think I may wait a while. I’ve been able to mostly accomplish this goal of freeing up space by condensing multiple titles into multi-disc cases. And looking over the material that I would want to digitize, it’s a lot of TV on DVD and other such things where lots of items per...

I’m wondering if in my case, it just might be worth doing that. I’m cool with the idea of ripping and converting stuff, but I’m less enthused about buying a computer to use as a media server. So maybe the long term project might be to make MKVs, which has the advantage of files that are...

I guess that kind of gets to the heart of my question, and thanks for the feedback - is there any reason I have to use a Kodi to play it back, or can I just use my Oppo disc player? I know it'll play MKV files, so the questions is more, is there a reason why it would be a bad practice to rely...

Is your HTPC playing disc ISOs or MKV files? I was thinking more along the lines of ripping things into MKV or something like that, and throwing them on a hard drive.

I have a stupid question and I think you’re probably the right guy to ask, but I don’t mean to hijack your HTPC discussion too far off course. I’m thinking I want to reduce, rather than completely eliminate, the amount of media I have on display. I’m most interested in getting rid of DVDs...