Easy newbie DVD playback question (I hope!)

[Steve2112]

Ok, I use SageTV 2.0 with a 350 card. I use the TV Out function, but have UI turned off because it causes my system to be unstable.

When I watch live TV or recordings, the playback goes through my TV, so I see the picture on both my computer screen and TV screen just as expected.

Audio comes out my TV, (and if I turn on my computer speakers, audio comes out of those as well, but sounds like the $19 speakers they are).

The problem I experienced when playing a DVD for the first time tonight was that when I inserted the DVD, Sage was playing the DVD within it's window, but the screen on the TV did not play the DVD - it was just a frozen moment of some recording I just finished watching awhile ago.

Hopefully there is an easy "doh" answer to this question - there must be something I'm missing because it's playing fine within Sage on my computer....

Anyone know how to help me please?

Thanks,

Steve

[Opus4]

The 350 can only play non-encrypted MPEG2 files, which means you can't use it to play DVDs. It is a hardware limitation of that card.

- Andy

[Steve2112]

That's a bummer. How come the DVD is playing withing the Sage window? Is it that it just can't send that data out of the card to the TV? I can see the movie on the computer screen, and it is an encrypted DVD.

Maybe I'm confused because I can the see DVD fine within the Sage playback window, just not on the TV...

?

[Opus4]

It is playing on your monitor because it is using a software decoder to do so; the 350 is not involved in that process.

- Andy

[casperse]

Steve did you find a solution?

I have the same problem? And the DVDs are ripped to the Disk. Decrypted! and Macro free? and still no picture on the TV-out?

[Steve2112]

Never tried anything else after I heard from Andy....

Seems like it should work, nice picture on the PC, but you just can't pipe it out the 350.... I wish you could!

[remmy925]

I wonder if were to run DeCSS and save a copy on your hard drive if it would work. Might be a way for you to get around your problem. Keep in mind....that means your are storing alot of data on your hard drive just to watch a movie. but might be something you could try for kicks.

[remmy925]

Sorry...program that does that is DVDDecrypter.

[casperse]

Maybee its because its VOB files and not a *.mpg extension?
But the VOB are standard MPEG2 DVD encoded so there must be a way?
I use the standard Hauppage decoder and that shows the Vob files in Sage just not on the TV-out?

[stanger89]

The encryption is only part of the problem, the other part is that the 350 can't deal with AC3 audio, only MPEG, so you either need to convert the audio the MPEG or run it through a separate soundcard.