Blu-ray playback from drive in w2k3 stutters

[hockeyfan]

Hi,

My setup at home consists of a windows server (used to be Vista 32bit) with various extender boxes hooked up to TVs around the house. I ended up having a Vista meltdown, I don't seem to get along with it very well at all, so I reformatted the computer and installed Windows Server 2003 Standard.

Overall I've been happier with 2k3 except for blu-ray playback from the drive. If I rip a movie I can watch it without issue. If I stream it it will stutter horribly and it basically be unwatchable. I know that when I ran Vista I was able to stream blu-ray movies from the drive and it worked as well as reading a file off a share.

I've tried disabling the virus scanner, turning off caching of the drive for offline mode, using the speed settings in HDAnyDVD, but nothing works.

I have looked for a solution around the forum (and the internet in general) and have been unable to find someone with a a similar problem.

I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions I could try to use the actual drive?

Thanks!

[valnar]

What drive is it? Did you check the DMA settings?
Can you stream a video from it outside of Sage? Like TMT or PowerDVD?

[hockeyfan]

Hi,

The drive is an LG GGC-H20L connected using SATA. When I first was examining this issue I ran across a web page that suggested removing the device in device manager then force DMA, which I did. It didn't seem to matter when I used DMA or not, there was always stuttering.

I suspected the throughput so I downloaded a demo of Opti Drive Control and ran the same blu-ray that was giving me issues. The test proved positive in that it was able to achieve the 4x read speed constantly. With those results I stopped looking at the throughput of the drive.

When I make a local copy of my blu-ray in HDAnyDVD I get around 13+ MB/s rip speed. I don't know what I got in Vista because I never bothered to look ath the time.

There was an entry in the sage properties file that I ran across in the sage forums, something about setting the max packet size for the mini-player (I can't remember the exact line and I don't have the information in front of me) and that didn't seem to have any effect.

I have not streamed video from the drive to render locally since this is a stand alone server and was also when I had vista as the OS. I have used this same computer with Vista MCE in the past, not with this drive however. As a side note DVD does work fine, but that is also a lot less data.

As a last resort I have sage service log in using my local name that has admin access (this was more of a desperation attempt) and still no luck.

I'm suspecting it's a driver issue. I was *hoping* that there were setting in the OS that I was not privy too that someone would be able to suggest.

It's not a huge deal it would just be nice to have the blu-ray in the sage box rather than a stand alone, which I may have to pick up anyway. I just hate dropping the projector mount and rewiring and (sigh) realigning.