2 Blu-Ray Questions

[tfurlong]

First, I wanted to say I'm excited about Sage v7 and I love the new look of the interface!

Question #1
I think this topic has been covered before, but the solution isn't clear to me. I'm running Win7 x64, and I want to watch Blu-Rays through Sage using DVDFab Passkey (or AnyDVD HD could work, too). Can work without adding the drive as an import path and rescanning? I'd *love* to be able to insert a Blu-Ray and just play it, and I feel like I'm really close to being able to do that.

Question #2
What video setup options should I be using to watch a decrypted Blu-Ray that appears in the DVD/BD menu? My current set of options have it "failing to render the video portion".

Thanks!
Todd

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by tfurlong

First, I wanted to say I'm excited about Sage v7 and I love the new look of the interface!

Question #1
I think this topic has been covered before, but the solution isn't clear to me. I'm running Win7 x64, and I want to watch Blu-Rays through Sage using DVDFab Passkey (or AnyDVD HD could work, too). Can work without adding the drive as an import path and rescanning? I'd *love* to be able to insert a Blu-Ray and just play it, and I feel like I'm really close to being able to do that.

That isn't currently possible. It requires a scan to detect that it is a bluray in the drive.

Originally Posted by tfurlong

Question #2
What video setup options should I be using to watch a decrypted Blu-Ray that appears in the DVD/BD menu? My current set of options have it "failing to render the video portion".

That sounds like a CODEC issue. More than likely, the disc you are trying to watch is VC-1, which I believe has some problems in the current eta builds. On Win7, H.264 BluRay's (which is MOST discs on the market) should play pretty much out of the box. VC-1, however, will have to be watched in an external player software, until sage gets the VC-1 playback fixed. (It's not presenting the VC-1 files correctly or something, preventing it from connecting to the proper decoders).

[PLUCKYHD]

#1 will be possible soon in SMM I will not require a drive be added to the sage import library only that a movie be loaded in the drive.

[tfurlong]

Fuzzy, thanks for the Codec tips.

Plucky, that sounds like exactly the behavior I'd like to see!

[Naylia]

For now, if you only ever watch Blu-rays you don't have to rescan. You only need to rescan if you switch between DVDs & Blu-rays

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Naylia

For now, if you only ever watch Blu-rays you don't have to rescan. You only need to rescan if you switch between DVDs & Blu-rays

Correct. One of the reasons I still have my HD-DVD drive hooked up. I play bluRays in the BluRay drive, and DVD's in the HD-DvD drive. Saves the rescanning if I switch out discs.