Hi i am new to trying to figure out this Blue Ray stuff and would appreciate some help if possible. Also my system is a little outdated i would assume but i will list some specs and hope its good enough for what i would like to do. I would like to back up my Blue Ray movies to iso files and save on hard drive for play back using WD HD media center on my TV. Question 1: Are my system specs good enough to just rip a blue ray movie to iso? CPU = AMD Opteron 165 Mem = 2 gigs also have 2 more gigs if needed OP system = WIN XP Home GPU = 2 Nvidia Geforce 7900 GT Blue Ray Drive = Thinking of picking up a Lite-on Blue ray Drive and AnyDVD HD So guys and gals will this be sufficient for what i would like to achieve? Thanks!
I don't think so. From what I've read, the intel equivalent of your CPU is the Pentium D series. That's the one I had before I upgraded. It was one of the first dual core chips. Even by upgrading your GPU, your bottlenecked by the cpu. I upgraded my GPU to a 7800 GT and still couldn't smoothly process full 1080p video. Only up to 720p. So if you want to play the video on your PC, then you would probably have to encode it to a lower resolution. Which I'm afraid could take up to 20 hours for each movie. I'm not an expert though. Maybe someone else can prove me wrong.
Thanks for the info emugamer ! But i am not looking to playback on my pc. I just want to rip to an iso and store on an external hard drive for playback on my tv using the WD HD media player. So do you think i can get away with using my current system?
Ripping the iso would not be a problem. But do you understand the full scope of that? Most movies are between 20GB and 30GB. People typically don't just rip to an iso. They encode the movie using a variety of tools to bring the file size down to between 4.5GB-8GB (720p) and 8.5-13GB (1080p). That is a CPU intensive process. And like I said in my last post, it may take 20 hours or more on your PC for each movie. If you are fine just ripping a 30GB movie and storing it in it's full size glory for WD Media Center playback, then I suggest you buy a few TB HDD's.
Could you suggest a relatively low budget build that would be sufficient for encoding, etc. and still have somewhat decent speed? It would be appreciated! Thanks!
My thought would be to get at least a quad core if you want to keep the encoding under 10 hours. I think you would do better asking the question in the PC Build forum. Specify what you want to do and what your budget is and you will get good responses and suggestions. As a reference, my friends core 2 duo takes him about 13-14 hours to encode a 1080p movie, and he knows what he is doing. I'm running a corei7 and it takes me at most 2.5 hours to encode. Of course it also depends on which methods and programs you use. That's a whole new ballgame. Hope it all works out for you! Upgrading to a new PC for a specific purpose is very exciting!
That's exactly how i feel as well but it's a whole different story trying to persuade the wife, lol. Thanks for the suggestions and i will try and do a little searching on the subject. It has been awhile since i built a pc. I had built my current system for gaming a few years back and now it seems as though it is from the ice ages, lol. Thanks again!
