A tailspin of madness
I get very into things that I’m working on. You could say ‘obsessed’ if you’d like to water down the word, but I like to settle for ‘very into.’ Generally, one of two things happens: it settles down into a quietly roaring interest or quickly burns out. Either way is fine except for when your dining room table has books all over it because of the third time I decided to catalog all our books into Delicious Library, no really this time I’m totally doing it.
Yesterday was particularly quick. Here is the rough series of events:
- See the Lifehacker post How to Turn Your PC Into a DVD Ripping Monster (’Ooh, imagine not having to have our DVD collection by the TV!’)
- Rip Angel Season 2 Disc 3 onto our computer (’Sorry the Media Center quality is so low honey, I’m using a lot of resources’)
- Try to play the rip via our 360 (’Wait it doesn’t work’)
- Use a different program, rip The Princess Bride (’This will work better’)
- Try to play the rip via our 360 (’Wait come on’)
- Try the first program again using different settings (’This will work better’)
- Try to play the rip via our 360 (’Pfff whatever!’)
- Look into third party addons like My Movies (madness has taken my ability to speak)
- Begin to install My Movies but then realize it doesn’t fix the problem (general salivating on self)
- Give up briefly, then realize there may be another way (’Hey those 400 disc changers on Amazon have to be dropping in price!’)
- 5:42: Experiment ends (/lemon_jelly)
It’d be nice to have complete access to my DVDs, but considering the time and effort involved, it’s not at all worth it. Media Center Edition will play rips with no problem, but due to (I suppose) potential copyright issues they don’t allow rips to be streamed. I came across a fix involving renaming the VOB rip, but that only works if you don’t mind not being able to fast forward or rewind (and apparently it also crashes).
Besides, I obviously didn’t think this through. Could I really justify devoting 4-8 gigs of hard drive space to Anger Management?