Unattended ripping

[sokkaNET]

Hi

Not sure if this is the right room for this question, if not hopefuly some administrator will move it.

I have set up a headless mediaserver in my basement, it's running Windows Server 2008.
What I really would like is:
When a DVD is inserted, some software would see it, and rip it to a folder somewhere on the harddrive. That way I could have everyone in my family ripping my movies, and then I could connect to the server via RDC and move and rename the ripped movies to their correct folder.
I would like to keep the movies in their orginal DVD format.

Does anyone know of such a software/solution

The closest I have come so far, is that I can make a autoplay change, so that whenever a DVD is inserted a batch file will launched, and that batch file could for example start DVDDecrypter with the /start and /close parameters, making it start ripping as soon as it is started and close the program afterwards. The problem with this solution is that when a computer is locked, or not logged on, autoplay wont run.

I know that MyMovies for Windows Home Server has this function, but since I'm not using WHS I can't use it.

[sokkaNET]

Please give me some feedback ?
Does the silence mean that I'm in the totally wrong room, or does it mean that noone has ever heard of such a software? Or does it mean that I wasn't clear enough in my orginal post?

[7ekno]

The only way it's going to work when not logged in is either as a Task (which will run BAT files) or a Service (which nothing exists) ..

So your only real option is to setup a task that monitors the system log and detects the disc insertion event, then runs a BAT with the disc insertion as a trigger ... you will have to play with BAT loops and delays because the insertion trigger only detects the insertion, not the "disc ready" event (which, depending on disc, can be a couple minutes later) ...

Depending on how many discs you have to do (I had a little over 1200), it could be better to buy 4-6 SATA DVD-ROM drives, load the discs in all, then double click a BAT/CMD file that goes thru and dumps those files to a given directory, etc ...

7ek

[sokkaNET]

Well, 3rd party software does exists, that will make any program run as a service. That was the way I was thinking about fixing the issue!

however that would require some software that would rip when dvd is ready

[sokkaNET]

I'm very suprised...
I guess this means that noone knows of any program that will rip as soon as a dvd is ready in drive?

Does anyone have any pointers og clues where I could be able to find it ?