DVD playback annoyances

[dmidtbo]

Three annoyances with DVD playback from the hard drive.

1) After copying a DVD to my hard drive it shows up under "imported videos" and plays fine.
However, when I try to delete it through Sage, it will not delete.
I assume Sage just doesn't know how to remove a whole folder since it usually only deals with an individual .mpg or .avi, file.

2) The length of DVD movies is always reported as 0 mins.

3) Sage can't playback DVD .iso files with the internal DVD player.
Yeah, there is a workaround if you are willing to buy an external DVD player but this should just work with the internal one.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14672
Also, it used to work in Cayars old STV.

Could an STVI be made to fix all these DVD problems?

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by dmidtbo

Three annoyances with DVD playback from the hard drive.

1) After copying a DVD to my hard drive it shows up under "imported videos" and plays fine.
However, when I try to delete it through Sage, it will not delete.
I assume Sage just doesn't know how to remove a whole folder since it usually only deals with an individual .mpg or .avi, file.

Dense answer: Why would you want to delete them? If you're deleting them enough to need to do it inside SageTV, why are you ripping them in the first place?

2) The length of DVD movies is always reported as 0 mins.

You mean like this:

3) Sage can't playback DVD .iso files with the internal DVD player.
Yeah, there is a workaround if you are willing to buy an external DVD player but this should just work with the internal one.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14672
Also, it used to work in Cayars old STV.

If you mount them, then the internal player can play them. The only other option would be to write a MediaPlayer plugin to play ISO's directly.

[stanger89]

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15981

[dmidtbo]

1) I just want to do it from inside Sage! In fact, ideally I shouldn't ever have to go get a mouse and keyboard to do anything in Sage. Especially something as simple as deleting a file.

Since you asked, I am converting all my parents old VHS home videos over to DVD then adding the good ones to Sage. I don't have enough space to hold them all at once so I am frequently loading and deleting them.

2) What STV or import are you using to get the video library with the DVD info and correctly displayed movie length? I like it!

3) Again, I don't want to have to drop out of Sage to mount/unmount an iso image every time I want to play a movie. I am annoyed that the new Sage can't mount them then play them, especially since this worked in an old STV over a year ago.