Need a player that will stream DVD from HD over ethernet.

[yomomma]

I "inherited" about 1000 DVDs from a rental store going out of business that owed me money for setting up their network. What I want to do is rip about 200 of the ones I like to a 1TB disk array I am putting together, and then serve them up to my home entertainment system. I don't want to rip to Divix or just MPEG files... I want the full menus and extras for many of the disks.

The Molino Media Mogul looks like close to what I need ... it will rip to the disk and playback with full menus and features, BUT it will not stream the content from an external disk system. No way I will pay $5K for their 1TB system when I can do it with off-the shelf drives for $600.

So what else is out there that will do the job?

It is very important that it have on-screen menus since I am the only tech-savvy person in my entire gene pool here. It was all I could do to get them to use the Pronto remote ... they would rather hunt for 6 different ones.

[ams30gts]

so what you want is to rip them to your hard drive basically? and then play them through a computer to the tv setup?

[MrMungus]

You might not want to use the word "stream" because that implies to a lot of people that you want it in a web video format.

I know that the player that comes with W2K will play files on a network (c:\winnt\system32\dvdplay.exe).

[andkiich]

I'm thinking that PowerDVD and WinDVD should work. Just select the source as coming from a file and play that. If you're using network storage, then you already have a drive letter(or can have one, depending on how you access it).

[yomomma]

No I don't want a software player... I want standalone hardware player with on-screen menus and remote control capabilities.... like the Molino Media Mogul but that will use an ethernet attached server for the files.

https://www.molino.com/products/index.html

[clayts]

This article written by an Area 450 regular, Bill Todd, ties in with the work done on firmware for old Sampo players that enables us owners to add IDE hard drives full of .mp3s, .mpgs and .jpgs, etc to old DVD players.

The article takes it one stage further by adding an IDE-to-network connection

Completely home-brewed...

Any good to you ?