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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMech" data-source="post: 379971" data-attributes="member: 79189">I think quite many are heading to these problems - if not yet. The issue is not with sharing, its with privacy protection on bluray disk and overall support for HD-disk playback on PC. There is currently no common tool to navigate with HD menus like used with DVD's, so MP is only able to play HD content directly from file or stream. You could search solutions that use AnyDVD HD to deal with privacy protection, to share disks as files and eventually play streams directly from files. Another solution is to use some external player dealing with bluray disks like PowerDVD. e.g. PowerDVD can handle bluray disks if your environment is hd ready (use hd advisor). However, PowerDVD does not handle network shares as disks and therefore it cannot deal with privacy protection through normal share. To deal with this, you need a bit more low-level solution for sharing. iSCSI server/client solution supporting SPTI does the job. There are several free software packages (iSCSI Cake, Nimbus MySan etc.. haven't tried) and a lot of commercial ones. If you have Windows Server, you might be able to share with iSCSI using only Microsoft products. So far, i have tried such solution with StarWind/StarPort (15day trial - free license does not include SPTI) which is easy to set up and works great on XP. So, I suggest to try some working MP/PowerDVD integration at this point. There is quite lot of stuff to do with privacy protection, HD-navigator and HDCP negotiation - so I would be surprised if MP could offer integrated HD disk support any time soon. Maybe if PowerDVD directshow filters could do all these tasks, but I believe that the support is partly on PowerDVD application at the moment.... and note that it will need bandwidth, forget all wifi-thoughts and use 1Gb-lan-Teemu</blockquote>

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