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Folks, I'd like to try ripping some DVDs so that I could stream them to my DirecTV HD DVRs from my PC. I understand that either Windows Media Player or TVersity should perform the streaming server part. I have WMP so that I can see files. I haven't really started to tinker with TVersity yet.

What I'd like to know is what is the best way to rip the DVDs to maintain quality. I understand that there may be some format requirements for them to work with DirecTV media share too. Don't some DVDs have some sort of copy protection to keep this from working? It doesn't seem to work very well, because you can download DVD and or Bluray copies of pretty much anything that exists.

Anyone got any pointers or gotten this to work?

Ultimately, if i can get this to work reasonably well, I'll build a small PC to act as a media server and rip all of our DVDs. My wife (and me) would LOVE to be able to watch movies without having to run up and down the stairs and swap disks etc...

Or, is there a cheap media server that can be bought that has everything bundled.