DVD's on MVP

[sorr]

I currently rip my DVD's to ISO, with a little help from the
Wiki Document site I installed Deamon tools and bingo I can watch my DVD's on the PC via GBPVR.

But what's the point, It would be really useful to be able to watch these images via the MVP but it can't. Am I doing anything wrong or do I change the way I rip dvd's to make it work.

I want to be able to stick a DVD in the drive, rip it quickly and only the once. The either burn it or watch it via the MVP.

Thanks
Steve

[reven]

an iso is a dvd image, daemon mounts it and tricks windows into thinking its an actual dvd, so the mvp still cant play it. you need to use something like dvd2mpeg, which will convert it to an mpeg2 file which the mvp can play.

whats the point of ripping to an iso ?
- if you are using your gfx card tv out or xcard, you can watch the movie in all its glory with pretty little dvd menus and all, without losing any quality.

[dmelgar]

I've read that its an MPAA DVD licensing rule that DVD content cannot be rebroadcast. That includes sending DVD content over a network to the MediaMVP.

Therefore, it appears that you will never see a way to play DVDs on a media player.

MediaMVP hardware also does not support AC3 audio. Most DVDs use AC3, also known as dolby digital.

The only way to do it is it there were a transcoding module on the PC that would convert the VOB files with AC3 to MPEG audio and stream it to the MVP. Hauppauge couldn't provide this because of the licensing, but maybe as a plugin for GbPVR? I still don't quite understand what can be accomplished with GBPVR plugins.

[oneknight140]

So I've been reading some of the post and i still don't see how to enable the DVD button or to get Daemon tools to play DVD ISO. Please can you direct me.
Thanks

[reven]

the dvd button WILL NEVER SHOW UP ON THE MVP! and you will never be able to play iso images on the mvp. the only way to play a dvd (and doing it this way, means its no longer a dvd, thus you cant) is to rip the dvd to another format, eg using the dvd2mpg plugin.

[pBS]

MediaMVP hardware also does not support AC3 audio. Most DVDs use AC3, also known as dolby digital.

The only way to do it is it there were a transcoding module on the PC that would convert the VOB files with AC3 to MPEG audio and stream it to the MVP. Hauppauge couldn't provide this because of the licensing, but maybe as a plugin for GbPVR? I still don't quite understand what can be accomplished with GBPVR plugins.

I found a way to rip the dvd into mpeg on the fly and transcode the audio to mp2 [or anything else you want] without recompression to a single mpeg file using Videolan Client, and you can start playing it DURING transcoding, as it is as fast as copying the source to hd...[albeit with a little processing for audio conversion] works fine on a p4 1800..
i was wondering if someone could help me create a plugin that would let me run a batch file and then wait a configurable delay then start playing the output file. And maybe configurable deletion of said file after done playing..
****This would allow near-realtime dvd playing on the MVP!! ****
Only one problem i've found is because of not recompressing video,the output file can be over 4gig size limits of fat32, so i have to use ntfs or it truncates larger files.. [recompressing video would make it non-realtime]

here's an example of my command line for the batch file..
"vlc.exe --sout=#transcode{acodec=mp2a,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ps,url="K:\dvdtranscoded\dvd.mpg"}} dvdsimple://h1 :dvdnav-caching=2000 " this converts ac3 or whatever audio into mp2 and converts to single mpeg2 file at amazing speeds as it is only copying/converting container for video and audio is easy on the fly..

also newbie question,how hard would it be to program this myself? i made a "custom" button in GBPVR and it works great but i want it to play the file automatically shortly thereafter and i assume i can't do this from the batch file,or am i wrong?

hope that wasn't too long for a first post...lol
Paul

[mountainstorm]

I was just about to post that very point...

But rather than write to file and start reding it, (thus screwing your HDD) do the transcoding on the fly. Does anyone know how gbpvr manage the data it reads from files/dvd's? Would it not be possible to use the video lan libs in a plugin to do the transcoding before the data is transmitted to the MVP?

Ive looked at the source of the a couple of recording plugins but cant see where they handle the data .... also its not ideal as I want to do a generic transcoding plugin.

Thoughts/Help

Rich

[sub]

This would require some sort of playback plugin, but unfortunately this doesnt exist at this stage, and would not really be that easy to hook one in.

[jorm]

This is interesting. Well for starters.

Hooking into the dlls would be a lot more work. However we can easily build a plugin to play dvds then.

Easy way - Use xrecords transcode feature.
Open the skin add a new transcoding line like

<ConverterElement name="converter3" extension="dvd" startbatch="mvpplay.bat" stopbatch=""/>

create a file in the movie directory called movie.dvd

take the command line and put it in
mvpplay.bat It will pass you a filename look at transcode.bat in gbpvr for an example.

We can build a plugin that transcodes and plays. It will delete the transcoded mpg when we play the next one. Maybe even an option to save it for future use.

Perhaps we start off with xrecord. If it works we will build a plugin just for this.

[Ton]

Hello,

I have been looking into the VLC stuff myself, but decided to go for Mencoder (that comes with MPlayer), because it can handle both ISO-files and DVD's stored directly on the harddisk.

It can also do NTFS to PAL conversion (something I need), and transcode the subtitles on the movie (which for me is a WAF). It's slower then VLC, but the features are a lot better (just look at the tons of audio and video filters available). Other then that, it works just like VLC and I can watch a movie soon after I start the transcode...

I have been thinking about creating a standalone "anything to Mpeg" thingy (I lack the horsepower to do on-the-flu transcoding), and think that this could be a great start.

//Ton