Is there hope?

[bcjenkins]

Howdy all,

Just looking for some clarification. The release notes for 6.0 indicate hard drive based dvds (i.e. rips) can be played through MVPs. Does that also include place shifting clients?

Thanks,

B

[ChePazzo]

I always get an error with placeshifter that "there is no media player that can play the selection"

[Opus4]

No, the Placeshifter client will not play DVDs.

- Andy

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by Opus4

No, the Placeshifter client will not play DVDs.

- Andy

RATS! Thanks for the reply though.

[mike1961]

I think the MVP can play mp4 files so just convert your DVD's to mp4 and you are set.

Mike

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by mike1961

I think the MVP can play mp4 files so just convert your DVD's to mp4 and you are set.

Mike

NOPE. Only MPG. SageTV transcodes MP4 files to MPG in real time to playback on the MVP. Looks real good to me too!

[bcjenkins]

Can you convert to mp4 and retain menus?

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

Can you convert to mp4 and retain menus?

Sorry I can't say about that. I just reencode what I record to MP4 and play it back. But even if you can retain the menus in the MP4 file - when SageTV transcodes it back to MPG for the MVP you will loose them there - I would expect.

BobP.

[nielm]

I believe that Sage can only display and navigate menus in DVDs, not any other file format.

[Franc]

Anyone else having lots of troubles with MVPs and RC2??

90% of the time, after waking up my MVP it hangs at loading the software.
Only when I restart the service and reboot the MVP I get it to boot up properly.

Can this be considered a RC2 bug?

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by Opus4

No, the Placeshifter client will not play DVDs.

- Andy

And the MAC release was only a place shifter, correct? So no ripped DVD on MAC's, unless we run XP on that MAC? Just trying to plan out how to get HD into the bedroom.

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by Franc

Anyone else having lots of troubles with MVPs and RC2??

90% of the time, after waking up my MVP it hangs at loading the software.
Only when I restart the service and reboot the MVP I get it to boot up properly.

Can this be considered a RC2 bug?

Check out the release notes on 6.0 final. The one bug fixed has to do with diskbar and mvp. fwiw - I was having a similar issue until I upgraded.

B

[mike1961]

BcJenkins - The answer is a rock solid YES. MP4 files can contain both the captions as well as chapter information. Now, that is when the DVD's are encoded with Nero Recode. I don't know what happens if one encodes using Sage. I use two pass encoding with either Recode for DVDs or StaxRip for mpg files. Although AVC High Profile can take as long as 8 hours to encode or longer, it's well worth it to me. I just start it at night and by morning it's done. I've already encoded my entire DVD collection and all the DVD's are in the garage. One may use GermSage with Sage to use Nero Showtime to play the mp4 files to then view the MP4 files utilizing the captions and/or chapters. I'm not sure if internally Sage can show the captions or skip chapters.

Considering one may encode movies at approx 250-300 mb/hour you are talking around 1000 movies on a 500gb hard drive.

Mike

[dvd_maniac]

I don't mind not having the chapters work in Sage, but I hope they find a way to display the subtitles...

Considering one may encode movies at approx 250-300 mb/hour you are talking around 1000 movies on a 500gb hard drive.

I have 1244 movies on a drive that takes up only 518GB