External BluRay plugin for BDMV on Disc

[CollinR]

Originally Posted by SWKerr

I use EventGhost today and have the MCE button toggle between different application setups. Hit MCE once and it skips to Hulu where the power button launches the Hulu client. Hit MCE again and it goes to TME. The other buttons a customized for each application.

This plugin is great because the remote is great for controlling the basic functions but I still really need the keyboard to open up a disk. With this I can navigate to the disk in Sage start the BluRay and then toggle to TME controls watch the disk and when I am finished just close TME and end up back in Sage without touching the keyboard.

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I'm using girder for control of totalmedia. I actually added some girder event lines before and after it in the batch file that switch girder to totalmedia mode (disabling the SageTV Group, and Enabling the TotalMedia Group). Then, I have a button on the remote (the same button I use for back/exit in sage) that closes the player down, so the batch file continues, and switches girder back to sage mode.

SWKerr you can get that kind of functionality in EventGhost using the Tasks plugin.

Task.SageTV.created (app launch)
Task.SageTV.destroyed (app close)
Task.SageTV.activated (in focus)
Task.SageTV.deactivated (running not in focus)

Could be used as events to switch exclusive modes, just trade SageTV out for whatever the eventlogger says when you launch the app.

It is super cool! and Fuzzy you can still do the cool remote tricks with an HD200, it's taken me some time but I have worked around a bunch. I still miss my Firefly sometimes maybe I will bring it back.

[Humanzee]

Originally Posted by CollinR

Task.SageTV.created (app launch)
Task.SageTV.destroyed (app close)
Task.SageTV.activated (in focus)
Task.SageTV.deactivated (running not in focus)

Could be used as events to switch exclusive modes,

I do exactly this to get control of PDVD8 and sage with the same remote. PDVD actually opens up automatically when I put in a bluray, so this thread for me has just been an experiment, but I use the eventghost events to kill sagetvclient, and make PDVD go full screen. Then when I exit PDVD it will eject the disk and start sage again all automatically. It can get kinda tricky balancing what is enabled and disabled when you use the same remote for 3 or 4 apps, but it does work. I just use the 45 button Hauppauge remote, since I have 3 of them, I can use the same remote with the same functions on all my tv's.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Humanzee

That's not what I mean, There is no DVD in the drive, but there is a BluRay in the drive, it just can't play it and therefore reports that there is no DVD. Launching an outside app then would be ideal as this should only occur when the media in the drive is unplayable by Sage.

I understand what you were trying to do by tying into that error, but unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to determine if the disc is a bluray, or actually empty, at that point, so if you hit that option with the drive empty, it would load PowerDVD, which would probably end up giving you an error in PDVD.

This CAN be used to launch BluRays from disc, by importing it to the library, but it's really focused on playing back from ripped folders.

[wreuvers]

Thanks for an awesome plugin Fuzzy.

One small glitch: If the folder is \\MediaServer\DVDs\LD it will work (passed as the %1), but if it is \\MediaServer\DVDs\The Longest Day it does not work!

Yet when I run your bat file passing either of the above, the work. So I can only guess that something is being hacked off it.

While I was typing this, I just figured out a great "hack" and it works:
Modify the .bat replace:
"%1"
with
%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
(do NOT put quotes in)

And I expect this will not work if your path and filename has more than 8 spaces.

[Naylia]

SageMC can do this out of the box. I just set it up. It only took a few minutes (I still need to go do the EventGhost commands for remote control, but that's a seperate issue). Just enable External Media Player (this will enable playback of ripped folders) and External DVD Player (which will playback the BD in the drive). Then you go add the paths to TMT to two bat files in the SageMC STV folder.

Quick write up here: http://www.missingremote.com/index.p...k=view&id=4625

[wreuvers]

Hi Fuzzy

Anyway to modify this to also play HD-DVDs - TMT 3.0 will play them, we just need your code that launches the bat file to also do so for folders that are HD-DVD ... there is always a sub-folder called HDDVD_TS

If we can just pass the parent folder to TMT 3 - it will play it.

Thanks
Wayne

[Fuzzy]

are HD_DVD's imported into the video library? if so, how are they listed, and what happens when you choose to play them? The way this works currently, is it hooks onto the error that is triggered when attempting to play a bluray, and then uses sage's IsBluRay() function to determine if it is bluray, and if so, launches the batch file. Sage doesn't have an IsHDDVD() function, so I'm not sure they even import correctly, which would make it a LOT harder to implement.

[wreuvers]

It seems that Sage does not recognise the folder as a DVD - they are not imported into the library. The folder has a sub folder called HDDVD_TS if that helps. And the video files all end in .evo

[stanger89]

I just converted my HD DVDs to BDs with ClownBD, or did I do it manually with eac3to and tsmuxer, can't remember anymore, but then again, I don't care about menus or extras.

[Fuzzy]

Though really, if you don't care about menus and extras, you're probably better off ripping them into a file container like mkv or m2ts, instead of keeping the more complicated BDMV or VIDEO_TS structure. In which case, this plugni wouldn't even be needed.

[stanger89]

Neither of those support chapters, or at least, practically nothing supports chapters in those containers.

[Fuzzy]

if you don't use commercial auto-skip, I've got a utility in my profile that can create .edl files from mkv's, which will give you 1 sec 'commercial segments' at the chapter points (with the added benefit of them being visible on the timeline). Of course, if you DO have autoskip enabled, it won't work, as it will always do the 1 sec forward skip.

[vorpel]

Question about playing back BD rips from a noob...!

I have SageTV 6.6.2.218 installed on my file server running Windows 2008 Server SP1. I have 4 Sage HD200 Media Extenders that connected to the Sage server and playback my DVDs, AVI/MKV files, etc.

I want to start ripping my BluRay discs to my server (like I did with my DVDs). I have AnyDVD HD installed and have had no issues just copying the files.

I really want Sage to play these through my extenders, but all I get so far is a blank screen when trying.

I followed OPs instructions in this thread's original post:

1. I have downloaded Total Media Theatre 3 Platinum trial version and have installed it.
2. I put the BluRayOnDisc.bat file in the indicated directory - \STVs\SageTV3\
3. I have done the rebuild of the STV with the BluRayPlayback.stvi file.

I am getting the idea (still new to this) that this will only work with PC based clients.

If that is so - is there a way to play BluRay disc rips via my current setup - SageTV server with HD200 media extenders?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Fuzzy]

This plugin shouldn't be required for HD200 extenders. they can play back bluray's by default. this import is for playing them back on a PC based client (which, for some reason, lacks native BDMV support). Are your BD Rips showing up as bluray's in the Video section of the Media Library? If so, you should be able to select PLAY on them, and they will start playing the longest playlist on the disc.

[vorpel]

Okay - I restored my settings on the SageTV server back to what they were.

Under Videos/DVDs - I do see my 2 BD rips noted that they are bluray. I select one and select play - 10 minutes later - nothing. I press stop and I get the menu back as normal.

I am using firmware 20100208 0 This is the most current beta firmware.

I'll continue to look through the forums and see what I can come up with.

Thanks!