Blu-ray/HD DVD playback (1 Viewer)

[marco_b]

And another success. It was the codec. Changed it and films do play. Therfor I got another problem...

The navigation in then DVD menu is not functioning. When vieweing the DVD "Star Wars" in My Movies, the actual selected menu entry is showed in yellow, so you know where in the menu you are. When played in MP, the menu entries all are the same color. You can move the cursor with the arrow buttons and selct the entries, but you do not know which one you selected, because the entry isn't highlighted.

Need the logs? ;-)

 

[armandp]

Have you tried selecting another DVD navigator ?

 

[marco_b]

Have you tried selecting another DVD navigator ?

I would love to do so. But I can't choose another one than the DVD navigator.


EDIT: Problem is solved. I use even another codec now and the navigation runs as it is supposed to.

Love it! Thanks for the support! Keep up the great work.

 

[Sutekh]

I can echo that installing the UDF driver fixed this problem! However I have run into some other issues, logs attached. They may not be directly Moving Pictures related but I hope you can help anyway.

1. I uninstalled PowerDVD 7 and installed PowerDVD 8 Ultra to fix a hardware acceleration issue. This resolved it, but now I do not have a PowerDVD 8 x264 codec available to media portal. I see a new v8 one for DVD/MPEG2 playback and AC3 audio, but none for x264. Is there a way to fix this? I would prefer to use the internal player for bluray playback as it worked seemlessly for me with PowerDVD 7 (but without the working H/A i had to upgrade).

2. If I set MP to use an external player for Bluray/HD DVD, it will launch PowerDVD 8 fine and play the disc perfectly. Two issues though; how do I exit PowerDVD with my MCE remote? I remember this working with PowerDVD 7 using the HD_Launcher plugin, but perhaps they changed the key? I have to press Alt-F4 on my keyboard (which means locating the keyboard, switiching it on etc).

Second issue; when it exits PDVD, media portal crashes mentioning a null exception error. I have attached the full logs that MediaPortal generated.

EDIT: Point 1 was resolved by downgrading PDVD8 to revision 2217a. There is a known bug in the latest revision regarding codecs. See three posts below for update.

 

[arnbju]

A comment to the wiki:
For BluRay it's better to play the index.bdmv file than the .m2ts file becose with index.bdmv you will get the menu. Works with Total Media Theathre at least. Don't Know about PowerDVD.

 

[armandp]

moving pictures is always passing the index.bdmv to the external player... the .m2ts files are only used for the internal player

 

[Sutekh]

I've had no luck with MP's implementation of this

When set to internal playback, I have found no way to keep the hardware acceleration working when using the PowerDVD 8 codec. I always end up with 70-90% CPU usages (AMD 2.4Ghz 4850e). I'm sure it is to do with other filters being loaded along with it, but even when I disabled VobSub, VSFilter etc., Haali still loads. Plus then when my MKVs with subtitles are loaded, I can't access the subtitles anymore. Any ideas?

When set to external, PowerDVD correctly loads and plays but only plays 1-2 FPS! If I load PowerDVD 8 Ultra seperately it is perfect, with accelleration in place and no more than 15-20% CPU usage. When loaded via MP the CPU goes to 100% instantly and stays there, dropping 90% of frames and audio.

On top of that, when you exit out of PowerDVD (of which I can find no MCE remote command to do so, I have to use a keyboard), MP crashes with the logs I posted three posts up. I have upgraded to the latest Moving Pictures and still exhibit the same issues.

Should I file a bug?

 

[armandp]

Can you duplicate this again with Moving Pictures 0.7.2 ?

a) Play a Bluray using PowerDVD as the external player
b) exit PowerDVD (and hope for crash )

Create an issue on the tracker and post the debug logs there, i'll investigate

 

[digitalfm]

Hi, what codec's are you using for the internal player. The external option works fine (I use TMT) but i'd like to play the film using the internal player, but when I play all I get is a single black flash on the screen and that's it's. It doesn't play. I'm using Core AVC v1.8 and have added the file extension to the video's config.

One thought on this. I loaded up 'The Big Hit' which doesn't have the name of the film as the route folder on the disk. Moving pictures therefore picked it up but couldn't match it, understandably. This means in MP itself it wouldn't show unless I searched it using a manual name when to be honest as its only a disk all I want to do is get it playing.

As watching a Blu-Ray disk is normally a one time thing, hence i'm not bothered about matching it if it's not recognised, could Moving pictures just use a default title of 'Blu-Ray disk' instead, for those BD disks it can't match first time? Maybe even a nice BluRay background to go with it? At least then you'll see the disk available everytime, whether it matches or not and be able to play straight away. You can always match it properly afterwards if you feel the need.

What do you think?

Thanks

 

[armandp]

digitalfm: we already have a similar issue on our tracker (Issue 307 - moving-pictures - Enhance Disk Support - Google Code) - i added a reference to your information/suggestion.