DVD to WMV for Windows Media Extenders

[Grimpoteuthis]

Hello,
This is my first post here. I'm trying to archive my DVD/Blu-Ray library to a hardrive to enable streaming via a Media Center Extender. This post will pertain to DVD's to keep things simple.

I used ImTOO DVD ripper for Vertigo. Trying to compress it as little as possible. It was a sucess.

However Psycho stutters like crazy with none of the settings changed. Now I'm trying to use DVD shrink to extract the main title only. WHat do I need to do to make this Video_Ts folder a (as uncompressed as possible) WMV file.

And help will be appreciated. Also is WMV the only format MCE will stream I did a search and some people say 360's can stream .ISO with intact menus and special feautures etc. I HAVE THE myMovies plugin but I'm not sure I understand the other plugin need to transcode the info.

THanks,
Julian

[dat720]

WMV is the only officially supported format for Media Extenders.....

Have a read of this..... (http://www.onetipaday.com/2007/05/28/how-to-play-xvid-and-avi-files-with-vista-media-center/)

To be perfectly honest i feel the Windows MCE systems is very flawed.... I tried it for a while, using XP MCE, then tried Vista Home Premium, got the ***** with MCE and tried Media Portal, found that to be pretty average and just bit the bullet and switched to Myth TV....

Myth is extremly stable, easy to use, and is packed full of features!!!
My favourite is if you are listening to music then start to watch a video or tv, obviously the music stops, but when you stop the tv or video the music starts up again at the song you left it at!

[Ronin-7]

If your using the Xbox 360 as an extender at the moment it will only work with WMV or MPEG-2 in MPG/DVR-MS containers.

You can use the VideoReDo (http://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm) application to convert the main movie of your DVD into a DVR-MS file with AC3 5.1 audio (if you rip the main movie to a single vob and rename that .mpg it will always downmix the audio to 2 channel).

However come Windows 7 the Xbox extender will get updated with MPEG-4 ASP/AVC support in AVI/MP4+M2TS (its already working in Win7 beta 1) so if you wanted H.264/AC3 you could use Ripbot264 or any of the others to convert into M2TS (you will require Win7 once released as the host PC).

There are v2 extenders on the market with ASP/AVC AVI/MP4 support from Linksys and D-Link so you could check those out, I believe they work with the My Movies plugin.