Alternatives to AnyDVD HD? (2 Viewers)

[joecrow]

I'll give that a try, also I still believe I have one or two .iso blurays on disk and can use Virtual Clone Drive to mount them so can let you know how that goes too.

I spent a couple of hours this morning on this and need to clarify and confirm my findings but essentially it seems to be working. After enabling the MakMKV intergration option and disabling the external player in MP, inserted BD disks would play either from MP or MPC-BE though the delay before playback was noticibly longer than with external PowerDVD 18 player. Also .iso's mounted either in native Win 11 or via VCD (whether mounted manually or atomatically from Moving Pictures) also play. Unfortunately playback of inserted 3D disks did not switch the TV into 3D mode even though Madvr was in use. Strangely playback of 3D .iso's did play in 3D mode both from MP and MPC-BE.
I will continue testing and try a few different settings and report back any differencies.
Any thoughts on the 3D problem would be much appreciated.

UPDATE:-
Note the test PC here has MP 1.34 x64 installed.

 

[joecrow]

I am still unable to get the 3D playback of inserted disks but otherwise eveything seems to be working well using a paid version of MakMKV on my HTPC. However I tried doing the same with the latest beta evaluation version of MakMKV on my Desktop PC, also MP 1.34 x64, but have not been able to get it working, "Unable to play copy protected disc" every time!
Neither VLC nor MPC-BE on this PC will play inserted BD disks also, though a very ancient version of PowerDVD does.

 

[netexplorer]

I tried to get it working with makemkv, but didn't succeed. I'm still getting the dialog 'Unable to play protected or bad disk'.
Integration in makemkv is activated and I copied the dll to MediaPortal folder additionally.
Any thoughts what's going wrong?

 

[Pablik]

I tried to get it working with makemkv, but didn't succeed. I'm still getting the dialog 'Unable to play protected or bad disk'.
Integration in makemkv is activated and I copied the dll to MediaPortal folder additionally.
Any thoughts what's going wrong?

We need your BDReader log files from MP log folder.

To get extra debug logging you need to setup some system enviroment variables:
BD_DEBUG_FILE
BD_DEBUG_MASK

Example:

BD_DEBUG_FILE           c:\temp\debuglog_libbluray.txt
BD_DEBUG_MASK           576

Mask bits:

    DBG_RESERVED   = 0x00001,
    DBG_CONFIGFILE = 0x00002,
    DBG_FILE       = 0x00004,
    DBG_AACS       = 0x00008,
    DBG_MKB        = 0x00010,
    DBG_MMC        = 0x00020,
    DBG_BLURAY     = 0x00040,
    DBG_DIR        = 0x00080,
    DBG_NAV        = 0x00100,
    DBG_BDPLUS     = 0x00200,
    DBG_DLX        = 0x00400,
    DBG_CRIT       = 0x00800, /* this is libbluray's default debug mask so use this if you want to display critical info */
    DBG_HDMV       = 0x01000,
    DBG_BDJ        = 0x02000,
    DBG_STREAM     = 0x04000,
    DBG_GC         = 0x08000, /* graphics controller */
    DBG_DECODE     = 0x10000, /* PG / IG decoders, m2ts demuxer */
    DBG_JNI        = 0x20000, /* JNI calls */

Also you can tell bluray.dll location of the libmmbd files by following variables(there is no need to copy the dll into MP folder):
LIBBDPLUS_PATH
LIBAACS_PATH

Example:

LIBBDPLUS_PATH     c:\Tools\Video\MakeMKV\libmmbd64
LIBAACS_PATH       c:\Tools\Video\MakeMKV\libmmbd64

 

[netexplorer]

Thanks, will test that next time.