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You mean like all the people who do LS3 or LS7 swaps into their old Chevys?
Mass-producted gadgets like this are much like mass produced Chevys; they are far too common to ever be collectables in 100% original condition like a 1930s Bugatti.
considerably slower internet than what i'm used to and what i'm used to is internet on a g4 1.25ghz imac. tenfourfox and same amount of memory, just a much slower processor. good thing i don't need to do internet on this thing. still need some speakers.
As I was reading through the thread I am still stuck on what do do with my cube. Like the LS1 swap reference I could easily put a i3/i5 in a Cube and Hackintosh it with new life, resell it and make money, or max it out in its current state with things like an IDE SSD, get a better GPU in it, dual cpu swap, I dunno. Tough boat to be in!
what i plan on doing with mine is hooking two firewire drives up to it. one will be filled with video_ts files and the other will be filled with itunes aiff files. my cube will be used almost exclusively for listening to music and watching movies upstairs in my office. these firewire drives will be cloned from the ones i've got downstairs so they will serve a valuable backup plan also. i stay up late at night and by using earphones i can sit upstairs, enjoy some entertainment and not disturb anyone else in the house. if i can find my imic i'll try it out with my earphones and if it works well enough i may pass on finding some speakers. since i recently retired my "office" needs have changed. i'll probably end up turning the cube on maybe two or three times a week.
A tip about coping DVDs... Rather than copy the VIDEO_TS folder manually, just create a disk image of the disk using Disk Utility. This will make an exact copy that you can reburn later, and it is also compressed. When you mount the disk image, it acts just like a DVD in the DVD drive, and DVD Player will play it automatically. Apple DVD Player was and is buggy with loading VIDEO_TS folders.
I never got a VIDEO_TS folder to play in DVD Player. It would either freeze or crash IIRC. I tried both in Tiger/Panther and in Mavericks/Yosemite.
Still, I believe saving the disks in disk images is a better idea. The disk is copied exactly and can be re-burned later, and it is compressed so it is smaller and causes significantly less files in your file system.
Huh? Really? I had no idea! When you select "Open DVD Media" in the DVD Player menu, it says "Choose a VIDEO_TS folder to play" so I thought that's what it used. If I select a VIDEO_TS folder like it says to do, it would crash.
Well yeah that is what i'm talking about... It hasn't been fixed.
I believe saving in disk image is better than in .dvdmedia, because it is compressed & archived. And also, when you mount the disk image, DVD player opens and plays it automatically, just like if you insert a real DVD!
interesting. i'm using tiger, have 350 movies on a 4tb hard drive with room for about 150-250 more. they've been ripped using either mactheripper or ripit non compressed. since they've been ripped i've played back around 30 of them with no problems.
Does mactheripper and ripit output a VIDEO_TS folder? You can just copy it in Finder...
Oh, I see.
Yet another reason to use DMGs; no need for DVD ripping software and all that jazz.
VLC uses the slightly dodgy libdvdcss library to access the encrypted video files. The Mac DVD player uses the official method.
Me? I'd just image the entire DVD. Messing around with VIDEO_TS is just annoying. I use XBMC on the Mac mini and it's plays ISOs happily.
yes to your question. and to the second part i just don't know how to do that. anything that requires an extra step or takes more time i'm not real keen upon even if produces a smaller size file. at the rate i'm adding movies i should have enough space for another two years. then i'll see what my options are including weeding out some movies.