Thread: My Bedroom Setup

Hey guys, figured I'd post a little vid of my htpc setup that i'm currently running in my bedroom. The PC doubles as my desktop so i don't really use the htpc as much as I'd like but it servers its purpose for those nights at home when myself and a lady friend (or two ) want to watch movies.

I own about 200+ Blu-Ray DVD's and i try to back them up so i don't have to get up and put them in myself . I would have loved to pick up the crestron 200 disc blu-ray changer but at $9000, I'll pass. Backing them up doesn't really kill the quality if you select the correct settings but on the average a movie takes easily 10 hours or more and i believe the longest movie i did was about 17 hours. Anywho ALL movies on my setup are blu-ray and full 1080p Enjoy the little snippet of the dark knight. Hoping to add a TV tuner later on with DVR features.

Eventually when I move into a new home I will be building my own dedicated theater with my step-father but for now this works


PS. Sorry for the glare, Just finished moving around my room, didn't have time to put back up my curtains



YouTube - HTPC Setup

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more info please how do i get that setup?

that's pretty cool, details on how that is done and how much disc space each movie take up?

thanks,
Alex...

Sure!

Front End Software is

MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - Home

You can basically find everything you need there. I'm using mediaportal+moving pictures.

Backing up your Blu-Rays are simple, you need to purchase ANY DVD and rip the Disc to your HDD. Shrinking it from there takes some work however i was able to do it with some guide off the internet. Rips directly from your own Blu-Ray disc are easily 35gb+ but once i compress them to a good size and extract only the movie and Audio i can delete the rip as i have all the original Blu-Ray Discs if i ever need them. I believe there might be a way to play the direct rip but i'm not sure nor is it necessary for me.

Tecthis - Blu-Ray Movies are HUGE. I Started off with 1TB but it all depends on how you save your backups. For movies I really liked i save them on the highest quality which can be anywhere from 20+ gb whereas Regular movies are 10gb or so. 75 Movies which are currently backed (varying quality settings) takes up exactly 811gb. I plan to expand my setup to a new Raid NAS which is capable of up to 8TB.

When I do decide to move i will be able to build a server solely for all my media and wire the entire house with Gigabit Ethernet. Right now i have my Ext HDD running off firewire which is attached directly to the HTPC, plays flawlessly.

This process also works with regular DVDs however i just enjoy HD Content!! its getting hard not to watch HD

Now this is what I like to see another person who really appreciates watching and hearing a good movie. Thanks for posting on utube in 720p!

Originally Posted by slimmj0k3r

Hey guys, figured I'd post a little vid of my htpc setup that i'm currently running in my bedroom. The PC doubles as my desktop so i don't really use the htpc as much as I'd like but it servers its purpose for those nights at home when myself and a lady friend (or two ) want to watch movies.

I own about 200+ Blu-Ray DVD's and i try to back them up so i don't have to get up and put them in myself . I would have loved to pick up the crestron 200 disc blu-ray changer but at $9000, I'll pass. Backing them up doesn't really kill the quality if you select the correct settings but on the average a movie takes easily 10 hours or more and i believe the longest movie i did was about 17 hours. Anywho ALL movies on my setup are blu-ray and full 1080p Enjoy the little snippet of the dark knight. Hoping to add a TV tuner later on with DVR features.

Eventually when I move into a new home I will be building my own dedicated theater with my step-father but for now this works


PS. Sorry for the glare, Just finished moving around my room, didn't have time to put back up my curtains



YouTube - HTPC Setup

embedding disabled because of some copyright thing with WB

I'm so jealous, how did you get your walls such a deep red? I tried once and after 9 coats of red + 1 coat of grey primer I still wasn't that deep!

Originally Posted by Forfend

I'm so jealous, how did you get your walls such a deep red? I tried once and after 9 coats of red + 1 coat of grey primer I still wasn't that deep!

haha we had the same problem. originally i was like oh crap i picked a horrible color . Till my sister said that we needed to use a grey primer . I believe we did two coats of the grey primer first and then we used one coat of the red and it came out pretty good.

Originally Posted by slimmj0k3r

Hey guys, figured I'd post a little vid of my htpc setup that i'm currently running in my bedroom. The PC doubles as my desktop so i don't really use the htpc as much as I'd like but it servers its purpose for those nights at home when myself and a lady friend (or two ) want to watch movies.

I own about 200+ Blu-Ray DVD's and i try to back them up so i don't have to get up and put them in myself . I would have loved to pick up the crestron 200 disc blu-ray changer but at $9000, I'll pass. Backing them up doesn't really kill the quality if you select the correct settings but on the average a movie takes easily 10 hours or more and i believe the longest movie i did was about 17 hours. Anywho ALL movies on my setup are blu-ray and full 1080p Enjoy the little snippet of the dark knight. Hoping to add a TV tuner later on with DVR features.

Eventually when I move into a new home I will be building my own dedicated theater with my step-father but for now this works


PS. Sorry for the glare, Just finished moving around my room, didn't have time to put back up my curtains



YouTube - HTPC Setup

embedding disabled because of some copyright thing with WB

Unreal setup, I have over 2TB of ripped movies but I had no idea that a media center setup could end up like this. I'll be doing the exact same in my bedroom now that I've just bought a new TV.