I want to put all of my DVDs onto an external hard drive which I will then plug into my PS3. I know I can easily use DVD Shrink or the like to rip my DVDs into an avi, mpg, etc. What I would rather do is somehow rip the DVD into a file which still contains all of the menus, subtitles and data along with the feature. The end product would look like this:
Plug external fat32 drive into PS3.
Scroll to 'video' menu and enter the hard drive.
Scroll through the various DVDs on the hard drive.
Select a DVD - this will then take me to the DVD Menu where I can select subtitles, extended features, etc.
Is this possible? I would imagine it would be something like an iso image or something... I don't know.
Thanks!
The DVD backups will be in ISO format so as to perserve all menues, subtitles, deleted scenes, commentary, etc -- and ISO playback is not supported by virtually anything. Even your average desktop PC cannot open an DVD's ISO and play it like it was the real DVD (not without first mounting it to a Virtaul Drive, anyway).
Honestly, your best bet is to go ahead and either convert the DVDs down to the AVI format and watch them (which means a loss in options) or just change out DVDs every time you want to watch a new movie (which means getting off the couch). There's no real winning here.
Perhaps if there was some sort of crazy PS3 Mod that allowed you to load ISO files to a virtual Drive, this would be possible. But as no such thing exists (yet) that I know of, you're going to have to settle with doing it the hard way.
AVI or DVD -- your choice. No ISOs, though. Out of the question, sadly.
Thanks for the input. In that case, I'll just rip the dvds. I'm now running into another issue. I'm using DVD Shrink to rip the dvd into one .vob. After it's finished, I change the extension from .vob to .mpeg so that the PS3 will read it. The movie plays alright, but I lose control of any search functions (ie fast forward, rewind, scene search). Is there another way I should rip the movie so I maintain ability to seek throughout the movie, without losing quality?
Thanks,
Chris
There are programs designed specificly for ripping DVDs directly to MPEG4 (suggested format) and AVI. I'd try using one of those. Just an idea of what to google search for: Most also port over to PSP and iPod.
