Ripped DVD playback Fail error -3,0x80070057 Sage7 first attempt

[dealsdyker]

Well I will admit this is my first attempt at ripping a DVD of my own collection to my hard drive to playback through sage. I would like to use it for my DVD collection in addition to OTA TV.

To accomplish this I first used Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum and created a MKV file but it took nearly three hours to create (must have re-encoded the entire thing). When I played it in Sage the video was smaller than normal, and also didn't have all the DVD menus... etc. And I want the menus all to be there. I couldn't figure out in Wondershare what to pick to do that.

So my second attempt was just a copy of the DVD to my shared videos folder. So I used DVD Decrypter and just did a straight copy went in about 15 minutes. The video shows up in Sage under "Videos by Folder" and shows up as a silver disk. When I click "watch now" I get a playback exception error -3,0x80070057 problem accessing the file system. And then the error message disappears and Sage plays live TV. When I stop livetv playback the error pops back up and stays on the screen until I go back to the main menu. This is in the same location as the other file that played fine, so I don't think it is a security rights issue. But, if I use VideoLAN and open the same directory location on the same machine, I get the DVD menus fine and the DVD plays fine from the hard drive. So it doesn't seem to be the file system.

If I go back into the "videos" sub-menu the error pops back up until I restart Sage client.

I know I'm doing something wrong or something is setup wrong. I would appreciate direction because I'd like to do what I've read about others doing... move my collection to my server for real-time viewing, but I'm not sure what to do next and believe someone will probably read this and know just what to tell me. Thanks for reading

I have Sage 7 using Sage Client. Have video playback set up like GollyJer's instructions here although I did that as part of troubleshooting to try to get it working.

[stanger89]

To play DVDs on a client you need to use UNC paths for your import directories, or have the drives mapped identically to those on the server.

[dealsdyker]

On the client PC media center import videos were: \\localhost\videos. Other videos picked up just fine. I changed it to \servername\videos and that seems to have fixed it for DVD playback. Thanks for your quick help. I am looking forward to using my Sage server much more powerfully. I'm sure I could have found this by searching further but I did search and it didn't jump out at me.

[stanger89]

Other "single file" files are able to be streamed through the server so they work even if the Client can't access the path directly. But DVDs are more complicated, involving many files, thus the client must be able to access them directly.