Why do some DVD rips not play on PCH?

[philly_phenom]

I've just begun ripping my DVD collection, and some DVD's seem to play fine on the PCH while others just get a blank screen (rebooting the PCH is the only way out).

They all play back fine in PVRX2 locally on the server. Does this have anything to do w/ copy protection or anything? Is there encryption in the ripped images that VLC & apparently PVRX2 can crack, but not the NMT's player?

[BrainStormer]

Try ripping to a Video_TS Folder instead of ISO and see if you can watch it.

[mvallevand]

The PCH doesn't play CSS encrypted DVD iso or video_ts files. VLC does and potentially GBPVR will.

There could be other consideration too ie share permissions and file names ie characters like []() are not good in linux and I am not sure I have escaped them all properly. When it goes black can you telnet to the PCH and type ls /iso and see anything?

Martin

[hoborg]

Try rip them using AnyDVD (this will remove crypting).

[philly_phenom]

Thanks - I just used Video Redo to convert to an mpg file - extra's & such aren't important to me & I like that the movie plays back in the same way as recordings.

I did hit a couple of DVD's that DVD Shrink won't rip - I'll give AnyDVD a try.