Getting DVDs series on my TV

How to get my favorite DVDs to play on my TV using Philips Streamium SLM5500?

This a step by step article on how I get my DVDs to playback onto my TV using my Philips wireless media adaptor.

I do not know about you, but I have video files from all sources including DVD. Some of my favorites include Star Wars, Xmen series and of course the Star Trek, NG series and the Enterprise series. For my family members, we can rent an entire Cantonese series, copy to the harddisk, save the trouble of no time to watch now, and hassle of changing disc.

It’s kind of hassle to store the DVD physically and with price of harddisk falling but capacity increases it kind of easy to store them on my portable USB Harddisk. To watch it I could simply turn on my PC with my wireless router attached and stream the video down to my TV using Philips Media Player.

Step 1 – To get this DVD into my harddisk, I used a backup software call DVD Shrink. It’s free download. Simply do a Google search on “Download DVD Shrink”, download and install on to your PC.

Step 2 – Run DVD Shrink, just choose to backup the whole disc, (you can always skip to the next clip easily with streaming). Choose the right language.
I found that by selecting the correct subtitles, I would be able to get the subtitle playback when watching the movie.

You can choose to breakup each clip to 1GB or leave the whole chunk as one file (careful only NTFS file system, which your harddisk is formatted, as can handle files greater that 4GB). I tend to leave in 1GB chunk.

Hence a 2 hour movie is broken into 30minutes each. Since you can skip to the next clip, if you were interrupted, rather then trying to fast forward 1 hour

I have taken a couple of screenshots so that you can see what I meant.

Step 3 – Install Philips Media Manager, and share out the folder where your backup video files are and you are ready to stream. Select using Folder and start playing the first clip. The trick is SLM will continue playing one clip after the other from this folder unless repeat title button is pressed.

If you are not using PMM, then you can create a m3u playlist. This is easily done on a command prompt using DIR command.

D:\XMEN2_DISC1\VIDEO_TS>dir /b *.vob > xmen2.m3u

And the content of the playlist will simply be the name of these files:

VIDEO_TS.VOB
VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_5.VOB
VTS_02_1.VOB