DVD playback crashes SageTV

[xj-boonie]

I'm haveing a problem playing back store bought DVDs. They either crash SageTV after a few minutes, or after 45is minutes.

I'm running Win 7 Pro SP1 64 bit, SageTV 7.1.5, and have AnyDVD running also.

The system is a AMD Athlon II X4 640, 4GB Ram, with an ATI 5670 video card.

Any thoughts or ideas, or more info needed?

Thanks!
Mike

[hedly]

Are the DVD's ripped on to the computer first or are you plopping them in the DVD drive on the computer and playing through Sage?

[xj-boonie]

Originally Posted by hedly

Are the DVD's ripped on to the computer first or are you plopping them in the DVD drive on the computer and playing through Sage?

plopping them in the DVD drive and playing them.

[hedly]

crazy. Your system specs are plenty good. does it crash doing anything else? I had some bad ram in one of our workstations. Crashing started when I was editing videos...but then matriculated to doing everything.

You could try taking out one stick of ram and see if that clears stuff up. If not, then switch to the other (of course, that will only work if you use two sticks).

what about if you play them in windows media player or other DVD playing program?

Lastly, try ripping one of your DVD's to your hard drive then play them.

I'm having a similar issue, but with only select DVD's (low budget kids movies of all things...not even superbit or high quality movies).

[SHS]

What mode are you using
Overlay , VMR, or EVR

[xj-boonie]

Originally Posted by hedly

crazy. Your system specs are plenty good. does it crash doing anything else? I had some bad ram in one of our workstations. Crashing started when I was editing videos...but then matriculated to doing everything.

You could try taking out one stick of ram and see if that clears stuff up. If not, then switch to the other (of course, that will only work if you use two sticks).

what about if you play them in windows media player or other DVD playing program?

Lastly, try ripping one of your DVD's to your hard drive then play them.

I'm having a similar issue, but with only select DVD's (low budget kids movies of all things...not even superbit or high quality movies).

The DVDs play fine using TMT or windows medial player.

I'll see if I can play with the ram later.

[xj-boonie]

Originally Posted by SHS

What mode are you using
Overlay , VMR, or EVR

EVR

[SHS]

Originally Posted by xj-boonie

EVR

try switch to VMR mode

[gizmo3141]

The only way I can play a dvd in Sage is to open either WMP or vlc and look at it in there for a few seconds...then go back to Sage and play it. Otherwise, it can't seem to find the codec/decoder/whatever to play it and it just doesn't.

Been using Sage for quite a few years and tried all the settings and inserting a DVD and playing it is usually a 5 minute process, whether it's from disk or the HDD.

This really needs to be fixed!

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by gizmo3141

The only way I can play a dvd in Sage is to open either WMP or vlc and look at it in there for a few seconds...then go back to Sage and play it. Otherwise, it can't seem to find the codec/decoder/whatever to play it and it just doesn't.

Been using Sage for quite a few years and tried all the settings and inserting a DVD and playing it is usually a 5 minute process, whether it's from disk or the HDD.

This really needs to be fixed!

I have no problem playing a DVD either ripped or from a shared DVD drive with any extender or PC client. (You'll need something like AnyDVD for the shared DVD drive) This won't work with Placeshifter. Just extenders and the Sage PC client. And it works by just hitting Play.

Gerry

[SHS]

Originally Posted by gizmo3141

The only way I can play a dvd in Sage is to open either WMP or vlc and look at it in there for a few seconds...then go back to Sage and play it. Otherwise, it can't seem to find the codec/decoder/whatever to play it and it just doesn't.

Been using Sage for quite a few years and tried all the settings and inserting a DVD and playing it is usually a 5 minute process, whether it's from disk or the HDD.

This really needs to be fixed!

Just wondering what OS are you using

[gizmo3141]

Nope, just never works on client or server without some fussing around. Shut down SageTV, play to the menu in vlc, close vlc...then it works...until I reboot the machine or change disks...

[gizmo3141]

Originally Posted by SHS

Just wondering what OS are you using

Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit.