snidera,

Are you using the free or paid version of mediacentermaster? If paid, do you feel it is worth the cost to maintain a subscription? I have about a 350 movie collection, but most of them have no subtitles. I would like to add subs without having to re-rip the entire collection.

There are quite a few sites that you can get subtitles - subscene.com

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
snidera,

Are you using the free or paid version of mediacentermaster? If paid, do you feel it is worth the cost to maintain a subscription? I have about a 350 movie collection, but most of them have no subtitles. I would like to add subs without having to re-rip the entire collection.

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Originally posted by bernborough2000:
whanson-wi,
just as a matter of interest mate , what Linux are you running ?

I'm running Linux Mint. I may play the DVDs on this box eventually, but can't rip them on it - it doesn't have a dvd drive in it.

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Originally posted by whanson_wi:

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Originally posted by bernborough2000:
whanson-wi,
just as a matter of interest mate , what Linux are you running ?

I'm running Linux Mint. I may play the DVDs on this box eventually, but can't rip them on it - it doesn't have a dvd drive in it.

An external USB portable DVD drive is $30 at Walmart.

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Originally posted by xantom:
MakeMKV to get an image, and then Hanbrake to convert to MP4. This works for BR's as well. I store mine on a NAS and serve with Plex. Works great for me.

This is what we do. Roku on every TV for Plex access and streaming services. Plex server is an 8 year old Mac Mini with an external hard drive.

I record over the air TV too and am trying to get the naming convention down with Plex so it will auto add them to my library with no manual intervention.

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Originally posted by Lt CHEG:


My thought was to use the home theater PC for my DVDs and a couple of the Blu Rays that I currently have. Additional purchases would all be from streaming providers so as to not have to have a place to store them.

I watch a lot of TV shows on DVD, and a lot of what I have, along with some oddball movies that I have are not available from streaming providers.

So my desire to not have to physically put a DVD into a player coupled with the fact that I’m not looking to add much if any more than I already have to the computer along with the inability to buy some of my stuff in a streaming format is what has me looking into a HTPC.

Based upon what I’ve just outlined, do you think an HTPC is feasible? Thanks

Sure it is feasible.
You just have to manage the space.

In my case (AUDIO ~ FLAC) I do not compress which takes up even more space.
800 + CD = less than 1TB

With some of the video compression available H265 H264 the size per movie may or may not be so bad.
New movies and Blu Ray it will add up fast.

Additionally, you must consider backup.
Even though you have the original DVD consider the time to re-rip them all again if you have a server malfunction that is irreparable.

Ask me how I know?
My NAS unit that houses my cd's and runs the DLNA server had a bad drive.
I did a firmware update and replaced a bad drive in the RAID array.
Not sure which was the culprit but I lost all the data.
I did use the built-in back utility to regularly back up all data to an attached USB Drive.
I restored and reinstalled the DLNA app and back in business.
No need to re-rip the whole collection which took many hour to convert.

So of course you can do all you want with a HT PC just manage the space and include a backup plan.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
snidera,

Are you using the free or paid version of mediacentermaster? If paid, do you feel it is worth the cost to maintain a subscription? I have about a 350 movie collection, but most of them have no subtitles. I would like to add subs without having to re-rip the entire collection.

I bought it 10 years ago, I think it was $50 - probably changed since then.
It works really well to download TV shows, probably movies too.
Subtitles didn't work that well, most were time offset.
Plex has a subtitle download built in that, while not perfect, works just as well as MCM. Most torrents have subtitles now too.

Overall, I have gotten my $50 worth. I now use sonarr to DL TV shows, but keep MCM to auto-name my DVD rips.