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Is the USTV VoD plugin still the best/recommended way to access the various US broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, etc) streaming episodes content? (I don't care about live streams, just watching recent episodes of shows after they've aired.) I've got a Fire TV headed my way and I'm planning to put XBMC on there to replace my Roku3/Plex setup. I know it'll be able to directly play my music/movies off my NAS. But one of the other things I use Plex for is viewing the streaming episodes on my TV and I'd like to be able to do that natively with XBMC as well.
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emocrat posted:So this thread seems like a decent place to ask this, but if there is a better thread please direct me. ConanThe3rd posted:MakeMKV, Handbrake and a fuckton of patience. This is basically what I've been doing, although my process differs a bit depending on if it's a DVD or Blu-Ray source. DVD: MakeMKV to do the actual rip, strip out audio tracks I don't care about, remux to an MKV container, etc.Once it's ripped, I just copy directly to my NAS without encoding to H.264 or whatever. Obviously this means each movie is in the 4-8GB range instead of 1-2GB, but I've got plenty of space on my NAS so it wasn't a big deal for me. Blu-Ray: MakeMKV to rip/blah blah blah, like above. Then fire up Handbrake and use the settings from rokoding.com to do the encode. The guides are written for playback on a Roku via Plex Direct Play (i.e., no transcoding), but XMBC or whatever else should be able to handle them just fine as well.
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Dec 27, 2014 19:00
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emocrat posted:Thanks for this. So, what type of quality hit are we talking about for blu ray? Storage space being as cheap as it is are there good reasons not to just let it stay really high quality? I'm under the impression that all the handbrake stuff is lossy. Yeah, encoding with handbrake (or anything else) is gonna be lossy. If you've got the space, then of course you can always just rip/strip out extras with MakeMKV and be done with it. For me the results are practically indiscernible from the blu-ray source, but obviously quality is a bit subjective. I tend to stick to the higher-quality end of his recommendations for RF quality and the resulting files are about 20% the size of the original. And that's with the original DTS/Dolby audio, an AAC conversion for portable playback, and any commentary tracks.
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