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Robg54 said:
I can't tell you how much I hate you. Seriously though, that's really cool. I really am jealous and I wish I had thought of it.
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I know what you mean. I may have to go back through mine and include that in the info as well.

Also, to those of you who include the director, where do you include the director? Do you stick him or her in with the actors? What about the "Artist" field?
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I use MetaX which has fields for all that. Director, producer, actors, etc. Super easy.

I plan on going through my movies while they are still manageable and redoing many of them. Now that I know how to add posters, seeing dvd covers makes me sick:) And seeing the stupid ones with the dvd's sticking out the side makes me wanna die.
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I know exactly what you mean. Every time I see a new DVD being released or a better version of TV show artwork, I always go and replace my old crummy versions.

I bet someone could make a pretty penny buying portable hard drive and transferring these immaculately and lovingly categorized collections for sale. Then again that would be illegal to sell it, I suppose.

I wonder what people would pay for a TB of movies....
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Yes it's illegal, but it sure would be nice if it weren't. I sure would be glad to not have to rip and encode all the movies I have, nor to spend the time individually purchasing and downloading them.
 
newappleboy said:
With the size of those movies you'd be getting...what...50-75 movies? lol
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7GB average at 720p it could be 142 movies not bad I'd say bit if they were 1080p at 11GB average you could fit 90 movies on it also not bad.

These are not raw rips if raw rips then 20 movies is all you can fit.
 
My little collection

Got my Apple TV late last year and went on a mission to RIP all my TV series first on my MBP (15"/2.33/3Gb RAM). This took one hell of a long time. Constant ripping using MTR, and then encoding using Handbrake, and MetaX labels. But eventually I got there (after 10 series of Friends, 9 of X-Files, 8 of ER, 6 of Simpsons, 6 series of 24 etc, etc...). A total of 981 episodes at the last count!!!

But after this, I realised, I had some space left on the hard drives, so what the hell, I thought I would do a few films as well. Now obviously with films, it's just one disk at a time, so before I knew it, in only a couple of weeks, I had 97 films in my online collection :D Although I have a full DVD collection over 600, I did only pick out my favourites to get into the 97 so far, well my favourites, but they may not be yours ;)

 
Hi,

I'm a newbie to ATV and please forgive my ignorance. This question may be better suited to a different area, but you guys are doing exactly what I want to do so I felt you best to answer.
I'm looking for a new answer for my DVD collection. I have an Escient DVD manager at the moment and can expand the one 400DVD changer to 3 additional, but it just takes up so much space and the changers are over $500 themselves. The Escient does exactly what you guys are doing. Looks up all info on the movie and catalogues it with album art and info.
Anyway, my plan was to sell the Escient and DVD changer and buy a Drobo unit (network or USB storage device with hot swappable HD). Starting with 2 1TB drives would give me a little under 1TB of storage with protection. I want to use the Drobo because if I'm going to spend the hours ripping and organizing I don't want to loose it to a HD failure. The Drobo will hold 4 drives so using TB drives I can eventually expand to almost 3TB with complete backup protection against failure.
Finally, my question is can the ATV see the Drobo on the network or will I have to create the iTunes library on a mac mini and then sync with the ATV?
My eventual plan would be to have several ATV's in the house (bedroom, family room, etc.) that could sync to the same library. Is this possible?

Everyone showed their collection in iTunes, what does it look like when viewed on the ATV? Anyone have picks?


Thanks,

Chris
 
newappleboy said:
With the size of those movies you'd be getting...what...50-75 movies? lol
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northy124 said:
7GB average at 720p it could be 142 movies not bad I'd say bit if they were 1080p at 11GB average you could fit 90 movies on it also not bad.

These are not raw rips if raw rips then 20 movies is all you can fit.
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all i would be after would be 720p/1080p. not any full rips. just the movies. if you could choose your 'favourite' movies then i dont see why 100 movies isnt enough. its plenty for me!!
 
crotalus99 said:
Hi,

I'm a newbie to ATV and please forgive my ignorance. This question may be better suited to a different area, but you guys are doing exactly what I want to do so I felt you best to answer.
I'm looking for a new answer for my DVD collection. I have an Escient DVD manager at the moment and can expand the one 400DVD changer to 3 additional, but it just takes up so much space and the changers are over $500 themselves. The Escient does exactly what you guys are doing. Looks up all info on the movie and catalogues it with album art and info.
Anyway, my plan was to sell the Escient and DVD changer and buy a Drobo unit (network or USB storage device with hot swappable HD). Starting with 2 1TB drives would give me a little under 1TB of storage with protection. I want to use the Drobo because if I'm going to spend the hours ripping and organizing I don't want to loose it to a HD failure. The Drobo will hold 4 drives so using TB drives I can eventually expand to almost 3TB with complete backup protection against failure.
Finally, my question is can the ATV see the Drobo on the network or will I have to create the iTunes library on a mac mini and then sync with the ATV?
My eventual plan would be to have several ATV's in the house (bedroom, family room, etc.) that could sync to the same library. Is this possible?

Everyone showed their collection in iTunes, what does it look like when viewed on the ATV? Anyone have picks?


Thanks,

Chris
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Your drobo will have to be physically or NAS connected to a computer, and the computer will have to be running iTunes. iTunes works like a media server for the Apple TV, and so makes your library available to the Apple TV wirelessly (or wired, if you prefer).

So, let's say you have a Mac/PC connected to a wireless router. You could plug the Drobo into the computer as an external drive, and then create your itunes library on the Drobo, or, you could "option drag-n-drop" the movies into iTunes so iTunes can build a reference to the media. That way, with a reference to the movie, it won't have to copy it to its local library.

Syncing to the iTunes library is not necessary -- the movies can live on your Drobo and iTunes will stream it to the Apple TV.

The library on the Apply TV looks a lot like it does in Front Row on a Mac. Take a look here: http://www.apple.com/appletv/guidedtour/
 
MikieMikie said:
Your drobo will have to be physically or NAS connected to a computer, and the computer will have to be running iTunes. iTunes works like a media server for the Apple TV, and so makes your library available to the Apple TV wirelessly (or wired, if you prefer).

Syncing to the iTunes library is not necessary -- the movies can live on your Drobo and iTunes will stream it to the Apple TV.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/guidedtour/
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Thanks for your help.

I have my music now on the Time Capsule and running the same way with no actually music on my Macbook. So what your saying it do the same thing and simply reference the Movies on the Drobo with iTunes. That sounds fine.

How do most people handle the Itunes library. Do you use a separate server or just a computer that you use for general use. The kids each have a Mac Mini, but I'm not sure if I would want them to have access to the version of iTunes that is managing everything. My thought was to buy an older mac mini on Ebay and set it up as a server to just manage the library. As long as I could get Leopard to work I wouldn't have to hook up a monitor, etc and just log in with screen sharing to do maintenance.

Is there any lag problems with using wireless? I planned on having the Drobo connected via cable into the time capsule so that only the one wireless signal is sent out. Should the mini be connected via cable as well?

Thanks again for any advice. I want to do everything right the first time.

Chris
 
Here's mine. Although, I'm pretty sick of ripping my DVDs. I might just quit ripping DVDs and watch them on my DVD player since the quality would be better anyway... plus, it wouldn't take NEARLY as much work to go and get a DVD and put it in the tray compared to taking the DVD, inserting it into Mac, convert it to mp4 (hoping you had the settings right) and making sure it's tagged correctly and find the artwork... then you find out that the audio is out of sync for some reason. I converted "Over Her Dead Body" 3 times last night... not realizing the opening of the movie was interlaced the first time, then the framerate for the intro came out wrong the second time, then I had to use VFR the third time to clear the first two problems up.. but, the audio was out of sync, so I had to open the movie in QuickTime, extract the audio, delete a frame, re-insert audio, then save with audio and video pass-through... ugh... the audio is now in sync but, I lost the AC3 track in the process.
 

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TheSpaz said:
Here's mine. Although, I'm pretty sick of ripping my DVDs. I might just quit ripping DVDs and watch them on my DVD player since the quality would be better anyway... plus, it wouldn't take NEARLY as much work to go and get a DVD and put it in the tray compared to taking the DVD, inserting it into Mac, convert it to mp4 (hoping you had the settings right) and making sure it's tagged correctly and find the artwork... then you find out that the audio is out of sync for some reason. I converted "Over Her Dead Body" 3 times last night... not realizing the opening of the movie was interlaced the first time, then the framerate for the intro came out wrong the second time, then I had to use VFR the third time to clear the first two problems up.. but, the audio was out of sync, so I had to open the movie in QuickTime, extract the audio, delete a frame, re-insert audio, then save with audio and video pass-through... ugh... the audio is now in sync but, I lost the AC3 track in the process.
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I find movies pretty painless to convert the majority are not interlaced, tv shows can be a pain however, so I usually Do a chapter of the show first and check the results, then do the rest that way. I understand your frustration at the ripping process, I converted some of my New S4 Mission impossible set the other day, the conversions were nice, but then I happen to put one of the Disks into my Tosh A2 and watched it upconverted I nearly fell out of my seat at how glorious they look, Paramount does a great job on the transfers and I'm beggining to think I'm wasting my time and bringing the potential of my Bravia LCD down by converting alot of TV shows over, so I'm thinking of doing movies only, which I think disks are harder to find than a huge tv box set on the shelf. I was starting a huge project of Converting every Trek Series over to a new 1tb drive I bought, the transfers on Next Gen are pretty bad thou and the only way they even look ok is by using the Apple TV Preset at about a 2500 bitrate, meaning that each episode is about a gig with 5.1.
Meaning I'd just about fill my TB drive with all 5 series and movies. I have 2 seasons done but am doing some heavy thinking whether I want to continue or not.
 
Scarpad said:
I find movies pretty painless to convert the majority are not interlaced, tv shows can be a pain however, so I usually Do a chapter of the show first and check the results, then do the rest that way. I understand your frustration at the ripping process, I converted some of my New S4 Mission impossible set the other day, the conversions were nice, but then I happen to put one of the Disks into my Tosh A2 and watched it upconverted I nearly fell out of my seat at how glorious they look, Paramount does a great job on the transfers and I'm beggining to think I'm wasting my time and bringing the potential of my Bravia LCD down by converting alot of TV shows over, so I'm thinking of doing movies only, which I think disks are harder to find than a huge tv box set on the shelf. I was starting a huge project of Converting every Trek Series over to a new 1tb drive I bought, the transfers on Next Gen are pretty bad thou and the only way they even look ok is by using the Apple TV Preset at about a 2500 bitrate, meaning that each episode is about a gig with 5.1.
Meaning I'd just about fill my TB drive with all 5 series and movies. I have 2 seasons done but am doing some heavy thinking whether I want to continue or not.
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But, the DVDs are lossless and you don't have to worry about anything to use a DVD... just put it in and press play. The TV takes care of the framerate and de-interlacing and stuff... so it's really painless. I guess the only painful thing is to have to skip the previews and press play. Plus, the movies take up 0 hard drive space.

By the way... as a note: I didn't do anything illegal to get the movie Hitch in HD. I simply recorded it with my EyeTV 250 Plus since it was played on CBS last weekend. Sweet deal! Free movies that are higher quality than DVD!
 
What I find is that I'm more apt to casually Browse my ATV and pick an episode to watch than to browse my sets, open the often Painful boxes (24 Season 1, TNG Sets anyone?) and select a disk, it's so much easier picking them off the ATV and probably the reason why I do it.
 
Scarpad said:
What I find is that I'm more apt to casually Browse my ATV and pick an episode to watch than to browse my sets, open the often Painful boxes (24 Season 1, TNG Sets anyone?) and select a disk, it's so much easier picking them off the ATV and probably the reason why I do it.
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Agreed. I love having the discs because of the portability, but I find it much easier to peruse my ATV and find a movie/episode to watch than to pick one of my DVD shelves for some reason. *shrug*
 
Ripping TV Show's while is a pain - the quality of most TV shows isn't all that great in the first place. So I enjoy having them all in one place jukebox style so to speak on the appleTV.

For really good movies I haven't even bothered to put them on the appleTV and instead still upconvert them.

Although there are some days when watching a 'standard' version of a good movie is worth it compared to getting up and finding the dvd and turning everything on haha.
 
True enough. But the best part of the Apple TV is the new vs. not new blue dots that show you which episodes of TV shows you've watched. I just wish they showed up for movies as well. The only problem with this is that it marks them as "not new" as soon as you start playing them which becomes a problem if you have to stop partway through for any reason.

For instance, I have my ATV sync all unwatched episodes of a couple shows. I started one the other day and then had to stop shortly into it only to see it marked as watched and iTunes would have unsynced it if I hadn't gone right back into the episode and just paused. *shrugs* Either way, it's worth it!
 
I found the MetaX section for director... What about composer tho? What field is that on MetaX?
 
Robg54 said:
I found the MetaX section for director... What about composer tho? What field is that on MetaX?
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Rob: You can tag Composer in iTunes, as you normally would do with other tagging. What I usually do is, tag everything that I can in iTunes and then add the other respective information via MetaX e.g. rating, Director, Actors, Description etc.

By the way, I haven't posted my collection update (take 2) for a while. I started from scratch again with a new library. Everything is in pristine tagged condtion :D
 

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Robg54 said:
I found the MetaX section for director... What about composer tho? What field is that on MetaX?
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Yeah, I always have to go back and put them into iTunes. I sent a feature request to the developer(s) of MetaX for a composer field a few months ago. We'll see.
 
ironjaw said:
Rob: You can tag Composer in iTunes, as you normally would do with other tagging. What I usually do is, tag everything that I can in iTunes and then add the other respective information via MetaX e.g. rating, Director, Actors, Description etc.

By the way, I haven't posted my collection update (take 2) for a while. I started from scratch again with a new library. Everything is in pristine tagged condtion :D
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How did you add the "HD" and "HDTV" tag ?
Thanks

nicoska
 
Here's mine... 127 Movies, twice that many GB, and a very young and growing TV Show list that I will not show yet. All of it streams over my AppleTV to my Panny Plasma. I've been very happy with the setup so far!

Currently I back up my entire computer with a 750 GB Iomega external via Time Machine... thinking about going to a Drobo at some point... but jeez!!! they cost about $500 before you even add an extra HD! Anyone know of any alternatives? I'll need one very soon. :) Thanks!

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Three shorts bought on the iTunes store plus some of my favourite DVDs.

I have a handful more to add and then I'll be all set if I ever buy an iPod that supports movie playback! :p
 

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^^Nice start I like the shorts you bought, Also Gladiator is a class film.

Personally I've given up on Movies & I'm just concentrating on TV Shows & the odd iTunes bought Movie, I have a whole bunch of 720p HD Movies that if I convert I lose quality.

I'm going to post what I have redone since the last screenshot after I've added my Band Of Bothers eps to it.
 
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