HD200 Blu-Ray

[mkstretch]

The HD200 is supposed to playback Blu-Ray, but I cant seem to get it going. I have my HD200 hooked up with cat5 to my network. I have my external hard drive plugged into my router via USB cable. All I get is start and stop start and stop. Anyone know what the problem is?

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by mkstretch

The HD200 is supposed to playback Blu-Ray, but I cant seem to get it going. I have my HD200 hooked up with cat5 to my network. I have my external hard drive plugged into my router via USB cable. All I get is start and stop start and stop. Anyone know what the problem is?

Sounds like a lack of bandwidth. Why don't you try plugging the hard drive directly into the HD200 and take your router out of the equation?

[cansat]

How do you try to play the bluray back?
as a disk,iso? as a file .m2ts? or mkv file?

[mkstretch]

I thought if I had everything hard wired bandwidth wouldnt be an issue. The blu ray I'm trying to play is not converted, it's an exact copy of my disc. Thanks guys.

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by mkstretch

I thought if I had everything hard wired bandwidth wouldnt be an issue. The blu ray I'm trying to play is not converted, it's an exact copy of my disc. Thanks guys.

Did you run it thru something like AnyDVD before you copied it over so you at least removed the encryption?

Secondly, I find that most of hard drive connections (usb) on a router to be of poor quality (limited bandwidth). They are fine for serving up the occasional file, but aren't particularly great at streaming.

[mkstretch]

Yeah I use DVDfab. My DVD's serve up great, but I know blu ray needs alot more bandwidth. I guess one thing to do would be to get an Ethernet connected hard drive. I have 2 media boxes(wdtv also) so I want one location for all media. Thanks!

[paulbeers]

Just for trial sake, why not hook the USB drive to a computer and share from the computer just to see if that fixes your problem?

[mkstretch]

Come to think of it I had a 1TB internal HD in my PC dedicated to just movies and had the same problem.

[SusieQQ]

I watched a Blue Ray for the first time last night (Native format, just copied over with AnyDVD) and every 3 or 4 mins it would lag for a couple of seconds. Is that what you mean by starting/stopping/starting/stopping? If so, same problem here

[ojosch]

Is this on extender mode, or standalone mode?

I get stutters and skips too when I run standalone mode. But if I use extender mode, then it seems like the proprietary streaming protocol of the SageTV server-to-client in extender mode is more efficient (my opinion) than the Samba-to-Windows File Sharing streaming of the standalone mode, and the Sage wins for me. I think it's because they designed their system to do just video streaming, and not file transfers. 2 Different worlds.

Try leaving your ISO on the SageTV Server, and install Virtual Clone Drive (FREE from the Slysoft website), and once installed, when you double-click on an ISO file it will mount it as a virtual disk. Locate that virtual disk using the media extender in 'extender' mode, and browse to that disk drive using Media Server option ( Media Server > Browse Media Files > Browse files on the SageTV Server ) and go find the 'Stream' folder inside there and find the MT2S file that contains the movie. That's how I do it on my HD-200 and it plays nice and smooth this way.

Hope this helps..
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[mkstretch]

Yes Im using it in standalone mode.

[mkstretch]

Ok now I have my external hard drive connected to my PC and I tried playing a blu ray and nothing happens! Just a black screen. What is the deal should it not play fine while connected to my pc???