Ripped DVD and BluRay playback

[OPTWood]

I recently received my BeyonWiz V2, and was hoping to replace my old BW T2. The BW T2 constantly froze during use. I setup the V2, and TV recording side works perfectly. However I cannot play ripped DVDs. I have backed up all of my DVDs by ripping them onto a drive, and used my BW T2 to play them. The BW V2, freezes as soon as I select the movie folder. Strangely I can play ripped BluRay files. navigating to the BDMV/STREAM folder and selecting the correct m2ts file plays the movie. I can even select different languages.
Is anyone else having problems playing ripped DVDs? By Ripped DVD, I mean a folder with AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Then within the VIDEO_TS file, the BUP, IFO, and VOB files.
The DVD files are stored on an attached external drive which I formatted with the BW V2. The same drive that I successfully use to record TV.

[adoxa]

[...] However I cannot play ripped DVDs. [...] The BW V2, freezes as soon as I select the movie folder.

I can confirm that an ISO of a DVD, as well as its extracted VIDEO_TS folder, will play in the T2 (albeit without audio), but not the V2. It didn't freeze until I pressed EXIT, though.

[adoxa]

Here's a patch to partially fix DVD playback on the V2 (the DVD mentioned above still doesn't work, but another one does; resume does not work). Install by extracting to USB/network, use File Commander (MENU>Sources / Files) to navigate to it, select setup.sh and "Run script". Repeat to remove. Uninstall before doing an update. Note: this replaces the keymap, should you have customised it.

[Sandy B]

Here's a patch to partially fix DVD playback on the V2

Will this fix/patch be incorporated in some future firmware update.

[adoxa]

Will this fix/patch be incorporated in some future firmware update.

Not at this stage (it's not a direct part of the firmware and I'm not sure how to configure it for upstream).

[adoxa]

Here's an improved version, fixing the DVD that wouldn't work (problem with LPCM audio), resume and subtitles. There's still an issue where a menu may not display - just press MENU and try again (don't know how to fix that; the initial button highlight might not display, either, just moving should fix that). I've updated the default skins (more like the movie player), so this one will replace your user skins.

[pkarlstrand]

I have same problem.

I cannot play any ripped DVDs, from folders on my 50TB NAS, the V2 freezes as soon as I select any DVD folder and hit play/OK, just get a spinning circle and have to power cycle the V2 to regain control. This is on present latest release firmware.

I can play other media types, mpegs, .TS etc no problem at all.

However I can play the same DVD folders without any issues on my old T4.

My V2 doesn't have local strage at all, it is configured to use NAS

[MrQuade]

DVD/Bluray playback uses a different media player than the normal video file media player. I'm not sure the DVD player has been thoroughly tested on the V2 hence the patch posted by adoxa earlier.

If the disks are ripped to .mkv or .mp4 containers, both the T4 and V2 will be a lot happier.

[stevebow]

After searching I can’t seem to find much info on this. Similar situation here - I have various DVDs ripped (by AnyDVD, so no encryption or region coding) to VIDEO_TS directories. No problems playing individual VOB files, but that’s a naf way to play DVD content, I’d prefer the menus. How does one “play” (on a T4) a VIDEO_TS directory a la VLC?

[adoxa]

If you have directory/VIDEO_TS/*.IFO it should just work if you select directory in the movie list (not File Commander).

[stevebow]

Well, of course it's working just fine now... I was using the media player. I shut down the T4 when not in use so I guess the boot-up has fixed whatever hiccup it had had.