redwudz
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Joined: 07 Sep 2002
Location: AZ, USA
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Yes, you can copy your DVDs, minus encryption to your hard drive, but at ~7GB per DVD, you would need a lot of room if you had a quite a few of them.  Just use DVDFab Decrypter to copy.
Alternately, you could also use DVD Shrink and get them down to ~5GB each. Or use a codec like Xvid or Divx and reduce them down to about 2GB without too much more quality loss, but you would loose the chapters and menus.
Once you have any of the above formats on the hard drive, there are quite a few players you could use for playback. I use VLC Media Player and Zoom Player Pro. Or just for DVD format, PowerDVD will play them back just like they were a DVD disc. You would need a video card that would output to your TV or whatever device you want to view them on.
That's all pretty simple. I use five 300GB hard drives in my video server for storage, but I don't store full DVDs, I use a DVD player for that. The server has mostly Xvid or Divx videos. Accessing the IMDB site and the rest can probably be done without too much work with a software program and some script writing.
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