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2600:
I've all of my DVDs and Blu-Rays stored on my central server.  Currently, I am streaming them to a PC or two running MCE.  I'd like to setup another spot or two and wanted to see if any of the little media players supported playing Blu-Ray rips.  I have them stored in full unencrypted directorys and I'd rather not compress them or convert them to another file type.

Anyone else streaming in this method?  What are you using to play them?

Samstag:
The current generation of networked media players should be able to handle them as long as your network is fast enough.  I have an old WD TV player that doesn't have a network connection but plays uncompressed rips from a hard drive just fine.

2600:
My network is fast enough and I'm hoping all of these have wired ports.  What would you consider the current generation?  The last time I started looking into this was around the WDTV came out.  Asus had a player.  iTV only does 720, IIRC.

Does the WDTV play them at the correct resolution and frequency?

javeryh:
How do you rip a blu-ray (uncompressed)?  Anyone got a link to a tutorial on how to set up DVDs/blu-rays for ripping and organizing them into a front-end of sorts with the cover-art, etc.?

2600:

--- Quote from: javeryh on May 23, 2011, 12:54:38 pm ---How do you rip a blu-ray (uncompressed)?  Anyone got a link to a tutorial on how to set up DVDs/blu-rays for ripping and organizing them into a front-end of sorts with the cover-art, etc.?

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Same way as a DVD, use an app that removes the copy protection.  Media Center is what I'm using as my "front-end".  I use mymovies to download all the content.  All I have to do now is browse the dvd/blu-ray covers, select a movie and then it starts up as if I put the movie in a dvd/blu-ray player.  It's been great for the kids.

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