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June 23, 2009 02:33 AM

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adam5son

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With a collection of over 4000 DVD's, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase several 1.5TB drives in order to rip my collection and have access to it via the slingcatcher.

 A few items still concern me.

1, ISO files are not supported so files cannot be compressed, and I have no access to bonus footage, etc.

2, FAT32 is a terrible formatting method... why did you choose this and will there ever be a time when you support the newer standards?

3, I am unable to view the preview ".jpg" graphic which I've put at the top level of each folder (the DVD cover)... I read somewhere that this was the technique to see a thumbnail of the video.... what am I doing wrong?

4, I am unable to see any closed captioning on my sling catcher... is there a technique I'm missing to enable this feature? Is there a "CC" on button? I am slightly hard of hearing and having the ability to read what I'm watching is essential to me.

Please advise on any and all of the above... I'm open to suggestions in order to make my experience the best it can be. 

I love both my slingbox and my catcher... making it function the way I need it to in this regard would really make my day.

Best,

Adam

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Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 23, 2009 5:24 AM updated: June 23, 2009 9:10 AM

Welcome to the forum.

Re #1 You could rip your DVD's with dvdshrink and store the bonus stuff ( use the re-auth option )

I store my vobs for Deadwood Series 1, etc ... as :-

z:\Deadwood\Deadwood - 1-01.vob << series 1 episode 1
....
z:\Deadwood\Deadwood - 1-12.vob << series 1 episode 12
z:\Deadwood\Deadwood - 1-bonus1.vob << series 1 bonus 1
z:\Deadwood\Deadwood - 2-01.vob << series 2 episode 1

You just need to be a bit creative with the filenames when you rip the DVD.

Re #2 The slingcatcher runs Windows CE, Windows CE doesn't support NTFS thats why.

Re #3 & Re #4 not sure about this

Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 23, 2009 9:08 AM

Try pressing the OPT button and seeing if any of the custom buttons bring up the closed captions when viewing something connected to your slingbox.

I'm not sure how it would work with ripped dvd's.

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June 23, 2009 8:54 PM

Regarding Different Storage systems. The Slingcatcher supports Samba. You can put your files on a NAS or a network server somewhere and access your files that way.

But currently, there is no way to display CC.

Generic Member Avatar
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June 23, 2009 11:22 PM

A total shame... and not very politically correct. There are people with more pronounced disabilities who might enjoy using this device too.

Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 24, 2009 8:26 AM

Phil Pham said: Regarding Different Storage systems. The Slingcatcher supports Samba. You can put your files on a NAS or a network server somewhere and access your files that way. But currently, there is no way to display CC.

The files still can be no bigger that 4Gb

Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 24, 2009 8:31 AM

adam5son said: A total shame... and not very politically correct. There are people with more pronounced disabilities who might enjoy using this device too.

Its feature they added viewing local or network attached media, it's not really Sling's fault that it's not possible to rip media with the closed captions showing, the issue is the way they are stored on the DVD.

Do closed captions show from the device that is connected to your slingbox ?

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June 24, 2009 9:09 AM

the ripped media on my computer has captions built into the VOB files... Windows media player allows me to to turn them on and off.

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June 24, 2009 9:12 AM

Are you sure the files can't be larger than 4GB? network shares should only be limited by their native file systems. NTFS or HFS+ doesn't have a 4GB limit.

Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 24, 2009 9:38 AM

I sure its down to the Windows CE software on the Catcher not understanding files over 4Gb as it supports FAT32 native, I may have to try it tonight at home and rip a DVD and share it from my PC running XP.

Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 24, 2009 9:44 AM updated: June 24, 2009 9:44 AM

No need to check, I just found this :-

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/technical-s...

Unified Kernel
The Windows Embedded CE 6.0 kernel handles more than 32,000 simultaneous processes, each with 2GB of virtual memory space. The file system supports larger storage media and file sizes (up to 4 GB) and removable media encryption.

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June 24, 2009 10:19 AM

I read here that the catcher supports iso's.

"DVD's are shown in the media list with a little disc icon next to them.  A DVD can be present on the drive as either a DVD folder structure (the Video_TS folder with the associated files is all that is needed) or a DVD .ISO file.  But keep in mind that most DVDs are larger than 4 gigabytes; if you have a lot of .ISOs you may wish to convert them to folders.  The name of the top level folder of a DVD archive is the name that shows up in MyMedia.  Inside that folder is your Video_TS folder.  Additionally, a very nice aspect of the MyMedia software is that if you put a JPEG image file in the top level folder, this shows up as the DVD artwork when selecting the movie on the Catcher.  It can be named anything, as long as it ends in .jpg (other image formats were not tried - your mileage may vary) and should reside in the top level of the DVD archive."

yet all the iso's I've created didn't work.... perhaps I'm doing it wrong? AND... my .jpgs aren't showing up in the thumbnail window.

 Do you guys know anything about the preview thumbs?


Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 24, 2009 4:48 PM

 Seems fine for me, here's what the usb folder structure looks like :-

 G:\>dir /s
 Volume in drive G has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 4019-343E

 Directory of G:\

24/06/2009  22:11    <DIR>          Complicity
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of G:\Complicity

24/06/2009  22:11    <DIR>          .
24/06/2009  22:11    <DIR>          ..
24/06/2009  21:52            39,383 complicity.jpg
24/06/2009  22:11    <DIR>          VIDEO_TS
24/06/2009  22:20    <DIR>          AUDIO_TS
               1 File(s)         39,383 bytes

 Directory of G:\Complicity\VIDEO_TS

24/06/2009  22:11    <DIR>          .
24/06/2009  22:11    <DIR>          ..
24/06/2009  22:10            16,384 VIDEO_TS.BUP
24/06/2009  22:10            16,384 VIDEO_TS.IFO
24/06/2009  21:50           118,784 VIDEO_TS.VOB
24/06/2009  22:07            83,968 VTS_01_0.BUP
24/06/2009  22:07            83,968 VTS_01_0.IFO
24/06/2009  21:50           964,608 VTS_01_0.VOB
24/06/2009  22:07     3,713,835,008 VTS_01_1.VOB
24/06/2009  22:07            18,432 VTS_02_0.BUP
24/06/2009  22:07            18,432 VTS_02_0.IFO
24/06/2009  22:07           120,832 VTS_02_0.VOB
24/06/2009  22:07        79,314,944 VTS_02_1.VOB
24/06/2009  22:10            32,768 VTS_03_0.BUP
24/06/2009  22:10            32,768 VTS_03_0.IFO
24/06/2009  22:07           122,880 VTS_03_0.VOB
24/06/2009  22:10       850,132,992 VTS_03_1.VOB
24/06/2009  22:10            18,432 VTS_04_0.BUP
24/06/2009  22:10            18,432 VTS_04_0.IFO
24/06/2009  22:10           120,832 VTS_04_0.VOB
24/06/2009  22:10         9,492,480 VTS_04_1.VOB
24/06/2009  22:10            18,432 VTS_05_0.BUP
24/06/2009  22:10            18,432 VTS_05_0.IFO
24/06/2009  22:10           118,784 VTS_05_0.VOB
24/06/2009  22:10        26,126,336 VTS_05_1.VOB
              23 File(s)  4,680,845,312 bytes

 Directory of G:\Complicity\AUDIO_TS

24/06/2009  22:20    <DIR>          .
24/06/2009  22:20    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of G:\SlingSyncInfo

06/06/2009  06:21    <DIR>          .
06/06/2009  06:21    <DIR>          ..
06/06/2009  06:21            65,536 Resources_Ver_16
06/06/2009  06:21            12,824 Resources_Ver_16-journal
               2 File(s)         78,360 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
              26 File(s)  4,680,963,055 bytes
              11 Dir(s)   3,331,162,112 bytes free

 Just need to check if I can see the CC

Sgt Rock Avatar
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June 24, 2009 5:10 PM updated: June 24, 2009 5:12 PM

The opt key only seems to display the audio mode, no CC / Subtitles option :o(

Off to watch "The Wire" toodle pip

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