1st post noob with questions. I will soon own a Mac Pro, and I will use MacTheRipper3 on Mac, and CloneDVD2/AnyDVD on PC via Boot Camp. Right now I am just using a PC with CloneDVD2/Anydvd. I have Roxio burning programs on both platforms. I want to use my Mac Pro as a video jukebox, holding 4TBs of all my favorite TV shows and movies, at full dvd quality, but without all the menus, and extras. I just want to be able to select from a complete collection sitting right there on the hard drives, and simply hit right click play with the Apple DVD Player program for Mac. Right now I am ripping DVDs, and saving as Video_TS DVD Files, then backing that up on DVD-Rs as Data DVDs, as I currently don't own the hard drives yet. My questions: 1. Should I be ripping/saving in this method, or should I use ISOs or something else. I can remake these Video_TS DVD Files as ISOs without any quality lose right? 2. What are the Pros and Cons of using the ISO to archive vs the way I am doing it?
Or should I make high quality codec based media files? If so, what codec and quality? I know that Apple's Quicktime has that H.264 thing, and it will be used mostly on Mac. But I don't want to lose any of that DVD quality. Or any that I can notice anyway.
You have it in Video_TS format, so preserve it - start changing into other formats and you will lose quality, not gain. Burn the _TS vobs using the video-TS folder function on Toast to burn to DVD. Then, this can be copied directly to your hard drive as a back-up.
