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Which digital media player plays full ripped DVD's ?
Money not being an objective .... I am building a library of ripped DVDs - it's saved to the RN device in the standard DVD file structure, which is: NAMEOFMOVIE \NAMEOFMOVIE\ts_audio <<<-thi...
Kept trying tonight... All of this is over the network.
m4V, VOB, and ISO's play perfectly with VLC running on a PC and, last time I checked, a Mac. This is wired or wireless. I'm seeing about 10 Mb/s average network utilization for a VOB or ISO DVD playing on VLC. DVD menu, audio, video, etc. are perfect. This is what gives me hope that a digital network receiver could do what I want. Maybe I should find a cheap PC that's just fast enough.
m4v files, which I had previously transcoded from DVD's to use on iPhones/iPod's, play fine on the ATV (Boxee and XBMC) and on the Wii (WiiMC). Correspondingly, the network rate is around 1 Mb/s and the file size is about 1/10th that of a DVD.
DVDs, either VOB or ISO, don't work well on the Wii with WiiMC. The best case is that "buffering" pops up every few seconds to interrupt the movie. I also can't don't see a DVD menu.
Since the VOB's didn't work well on the ATV (Boxee or XMBC) I tried building some as ISO's. They still don't work well. Boxee locked up the ATV at least twice tonight. Sometimes Boxee plays, sometimes it won't play the movie at all, sometimes there's no DVD menu, etc. XBMC is also hit or miss.
It looks like the NTV550 is in the $120+ range and the Dune HD players are even more. I might be willing to drop $100-200 if I knew it'd work, but at that price I may at least try ATV Flash and see if their player can handle it. Then I also get into the question about the PS3 and the Blu-Ray I need anyway. It looks like DLNA is questionable (and wouldn't support DVD menus) as is hacking the PS3 and running a media player.
m4V, VOB, and ISO's play perfectly with VLC running on a PC and, last time I checked, a Mac. This is wired or wireless. I'm seeing about 10 Mb/s average network utilization for a VOB or ISO DVD playing on VLC. DVD menu, audio, video, etc. are perfect. This is what gives me hope that a digital network receiver could do what I want. Maybe I should find a cheap PC that's just fast enough.
m4v files, which I had previously transcoded from DVD's to use on iPhones/iPod's, play fine on the ATV (Boxee and XBMC) and on the Wii (WiiMC). Correspondingly, the network rate is around 1 Mb/s and the file size is about 1/10th that of a DVD.
DVDs, either VOB or ISO, don't work well on the Wii with WiiMC. The best case is that "buffering" pops up every few seconds to interrupt the movie. I also can't don't see a DVD menu.
Since the VOB's didn't work well on the ATV (Boxee or XMBC) I tried building some as ISO's. They still don't work well. Boxee locked up the ATV at least twice tonight. Sometimes Boxee plays, sometimes it won't play the movie at all, sometimes there's no DVD menu, etc. XBMC is also hit or miss.
It looks like the NTV550 is in the $120+ range and the Dune HD players are even more. I might be willing to drop $100-200 if I knew it'd work, but at that price I may at least try ATV Flash and see if their player can handle it. Then I also get into the question about the PS3 and the Blu-Ray I need anyway. It looks like DLNA is questionable (and wouldn't support DVD menus) as is hacking the PS3 and running a media player.
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