dturco
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| ecrabb wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | | Nope, while a standalone is easier you can't make a stand alone do 1080i/48/72/96 or any other custom resolution. Unless you add a nice scaler which will cost more than the HTPC usually. |
All true, but here is EXACTLY why I will NOT use an HTPC as my primary playback device...
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=243661
Here's a quote:
| perisoft wrote: | So, I've been doing bluray for a while now. I've used two methods to rip BDs - ClownBD, which spits out .ts files, and MakeMKV, which... spits out .mkv files.
<snip - narrative on the half-dozen different ripping and playback tools that fail/crash/artifact/etc removed>
This is all absolutely infuriating. My wife just wants to watch a goddamned movie, rather than having to spend a half hour starting to watch and then going back to fix something, or re-rip something, or re-rent it from netflix because it got screwed up the first time.
Various combinations of players and rippers ALL FAIL, and all fail in DIFFERENT WAYS. Delayed audio, choppy video, wrong audio, wrong stream, wrong colors, only plays in stereo, plays multiple streams at once, can't seek within the file, crashes randomly in the middle of playing, and on and on and on and f*cking on. I'm not sure I've seen the same failure twice; it's difficult to comprehend how everyone involved in this business can fail so completely, consistently and with such diversity.
What rippers/players are you guys using, and what are you using to rip blurays? I'm about to blow six kinds of gasket here... |
I'm a computer guy... I work with computers every day for a living... I know what I'm doing... But, I will NOT tolerate spending hours screwing around with filters, drivers for soundcards, drivers for video cards, codecs, ripping software, and on and on and on just to get native rate playback.
Wake me up when it isn't a complete CF to get smooth, reliable, trouble-free Blu-ray playback on a Windows box that doesn't cost as much as $600 for a decent BD player and the used Lumagen everybody says I need.
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Heh, Heh, Lumagen, you gotta see one. Great upscaling. Now if I could only figure out how to do more than just turn it on...
1080p DVD looks damn good though.
Now I've only had for 6 hours so....
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