BLU-Ray & SageTV - The Roadmap

[MalibuDave42]

Originally Posted by moamoa

That's a bit clearer now.

Would it not be possible in the short term to have a plugin, such as the winamp one, which would play the bluray movie using an external application (such as windvd or whatever (i don't know?)), but controlled from within sage.

The winamp plugin works prefectly like this, would this not be a good shot term workaround?

I re-read this thread 2x, but did not see the answer to Moamoa's question:

I have a fully certified HDCP path from blu-ray to screen. Can I play a Blu-Ray using Sage as my UI?

[stanger89]

No, protected path requries a lot of special code, basically reading the data from the disc, decoding, and rendering audio/video has to be done within the same application using secure pathways. SageTV uses directshow for all it's media playback, which does not offer such a secure pathway.

[loomdog32]

Originally Posted by MalibuDave42

I re-read this thread 2x, but did not see the answer to Moamoa's question:

I have a fully certified HDCP path from blu-ray to screen. Can I play a Blu-Ray using Sage as my UI?

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...highlight=pdvd

[Patilan]

Originally Posted by Ryokurin

If all you care about is that sage can play unencrypted EVO files than that is likely possible now anyways since there are ways to make the files comply to a directshow stream. All you need is a recent version of ffdshow tryouts (or something that can decode a WVC1 stream) , and haali media splitter. Windows media player and Zoom player can see and use it, I see no reason why Sage can't, although I admit I haven't tried.

If anyone wants to see before I get home from work heres a evo trailer. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8EGB8DWJ

Howdy!

I've never played with any HD videos till now. I just noticed this (old?) thread, and decided to give the above link a try:

So I downloaded the above mentioned EVO, drag-dropped it on MKVMerge, and then gave it to SageTV.

SageTV played it beautifully without a blink! Now how cool is that!!!

And I have never installed any codecses, splitters, filters, or any fancy schmancy stuff on this computer. Just a clean OS install + a fresh SageTV install. The only thing I had done some time ago was to download the free codecs dlls that go with the MPlayer package, and I had put that folder inside the SageTV folder for SageTVPlayer to use if it wants (no installation is required).

This SageTVPlayer is some amazing swiss-army knife I tell you!

Now I'm gonna read up on the HD situation on these boards. All this got me interested.

Cheers!

[laurenglenn]

Originally Posted by Patilan

Howdy!

I've never played with any HD videos till now. I just noticed this (old?) thread, and decided to give the above link a try:

So I downloaded the above mentioned EVO, drag-dropped it on MKVMerge, and then gave it to SageTV.

SageTV played it beautifully without a blink! Now how cool is that!!!

And I have never installed any codecses, splitters, filters, or any fancy schmancy stuff on this computer. Just a clean OS install + a fresh SageTV install. The only thing I had done some time ago was to download the free codecs dlls that go with the MPlayer package, and I had put that folder inside the SageTV folder for SageTVPlayer to use if it wants (no installation is required).

This SageTVPlayer is some amazing swiss-army knife I tell you!

Now I'm gonna read up on the HD situation on these boards. All this got me interested.

Cheers!

I re-"imagined" a video using an HD camcorder and then re-encoded the stream to be a 1280x720p H264 profile 3 with CABAC and B-frames. It played back very smooth on my P4 3GHz HT computer running a Radeon 3850 HD AGP (the video card cost more than the computer -- computer = $80 -- video card = $119). This machine can also do Bluray at 1080i (only have component output) which is why I was looking at this thread. If I have a decoder that I got with PowerDVD 7 BD, all I was looking for was a way for SageTV to read the titles, etc. like it used to do with DVDs. Even if it can't do the menus, I would just like to play the disc.

My system has a UDF 2.5 reader on it, so it can read the disc title. It's played a few movies before using PowerDVD, but I have a legal codec and there are codecs installed that should be able to decode it legally.....

Any chance on using the purchased codecs to do this?

Thanks,