Streaming VIDEO_TS?

[bryant]

Oh mighty Internet: is there a preferred solution for streaming VIDEO_TS directories? Boxee does it but support is rumored to be flaky. Plex maybe does it? I can handle more or less any platform although OS X or Linux are more desirable.

Mirrored from Population: One.

Comments

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

haven't actually tried it, but I think I can do this with Erica Sadun's (free) AirFlick and an AppleTV.

What are you trying to stream to?

[bryant]

I have an Apple TV (old style), but am willing to buy another cheapish set top box if need be. My desire is to be able to sit in the living room and look at a DVD menu on my TV without actually inserting a DVD into a drive -- I want to store it all on disk.

This is because I like DVD commentaries. Ah, the obsession.

My fallback position is to rip multiple copies of DVDs in cases where I really want the commentary after I thought hard about the actual cost of a few GB of data.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Well, one solution is "a long HDMI cable".

I think Erica's stuff will work for this, but I haven't tried. It looks like it'll take anything the VLP will take as input, which includes VIDEO_TS.

It's unsupported, but I was sending AVI video and sound via AirFlick to my ATV2 from my MBP.

[solarmus.livejournal.com]

I would typically use a laptop attached to the tv via HDMI and just run images of the dvds in question via a virtual drive (for me Daemon tools/MagicISO) on the laptop. This may be overly crude for what you're going for though.