Bonus content

[grandars]

I, as many, rip my DVDs to easify my viewing from XBMC. I encode all my movies to XVID or H.264 to save disk space.

But then I miss all the (un)important bonus material!

What I want is XBMC to see folders like this:

/movies/V for Vendetta/
/V for Vendetta.avi
/folder.jpg
/background.jpg
/style.css

/Extra//background.jpg
/Making of.avi
/Trailer.avi
/Deleted Scenes.avi
/style.css

And then display a menu when the folder/movie poster is clicked. This menu would perhaps contain some of the imdb-info, buttons for the extra-material sub-menu and other features (such as subtitles) and a button for playing the main feature.

Of course this would be limited compared to the DVD-menu, but the functionality would be there, and it would be easy to whip something together while ripping the movie (and bonus material).

I know some work would be needed to accomplish this, but think of the possibilities!!

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4215/vendettalk9.jpg

- Grandars

[SleepyP]

there are some container formats that can do this kind of thing...

[jmarshall]

Disk space is cheap - just rip the dvd as-is.

The above sort of thing is easily achieved if you can program, but I'd wager it'd be far less hassle just to shell out for a bigger drive in your media server ;)

[grandars]

So there is support for DVD menus now? How can this be accomplished with my already ripped movies?

[Jezz_X]

it can't

[ultrabrutal]

Yes it can, if you reauther a DVD but quality will suffer. Rerip the DVD, it does not take long and you have the original menu. I plan to put all my DVD's on a NAS when I find a cheap one which is good enough for me

[Jezz_X]

I beleive hes talking about his movies allready ripped to avi format and putting a menu on them

[grandars]

Indeed I did. So what I'm wondering is what container formats supports menues? Would for example Matroska playback in XBMC give me menues?

[Nickman]

Sounds like you should look at RatDVD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RatDVD).

XBMC can't play it yet but maybe in the future XBMC. Who knows.