Topic: Dvdx2 Play Dvd Off Hard Drive (Read 105 times)

sevenlayercookie · « **on:** August 16, 2004, 07:19:00 PM »

Aright. Heres the deal. I have modded xbox (Xenium) 120 gb hd, all dashboards,
dvd2xbox, Xbox mEdia Center, dvdx2 and all the other ones. K, ive ripped My
movie to F:\movies\Two Towers using dvd2xbox, but i dont know how to play it with dvdx2. When i dled
Dvdx2 it said that i could play off dvd or from the harddrive (By the way, I can
play from DVD fine). Any help? If u cant then can anyone
give any recommendations to how i can? thx

This post has been edited by sevenlayercookie: Aug 17 2004, 02:21 AM <

GJ1 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2004, 07:40:00 PM »

I think u can play it xbmc by goin to my videos and wherever you put it <

jokercs · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2004, 07:48:00 AM »

Yeah, what he said <

sevenlayercookie · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2004, 04:38:00 PM »

K, thx. thats what ive been doing, but, just wondering if its possible. If they make new version that can, pm me or somethin . By the way, the description of the dvdx download says that u can play off hd

. l8er <

MCurley · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2004, 07:31:00 PM »

Kthulu · « **Reply #5 on:** September 05, 2004, 09:56:00 PM »

yeah, the readme says that you can run dvdx2 from hdd, not play movies from hdd...and that's a real shame

i'm currently using xbmc to play dvds i rip into *.iso files on my PC. i use dvdshrink to rip into the isos. then access from xbmc using smb share on the PC. this works great for most movies. however, i've had a couple that xbmc wouldn't play.

the thing that really bothers me about using xbmc is that it doesn't support the dvd menus (unless i'm doing something wrong). for movies, this is no problem, but most of the dvds i rent are tv-show compilations...so menu support would be a big plus (it really sux having to fforward through episodes to get to the one i want to see).

it would be really cool if dvdx2 lended it's menu-supporting code to xbmc OR if dvdx2 allowed playback of dvd stored on the hdd. smb share support in dvdx2 would be ultra-sweet.

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cheesy99 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 05, 2004, 11:59:00 PM »

So there's no way to play a DVD off the hard drive? I tried using XBMC to play the files but it just played the video, no audio, and the movie is divided into a bunch of segments. <

Kthulu · « **Reply #7 on:** September 06, 2004, 02:53:00 AM »

how many dvds did you try with xbmc? just asking cause i've never had audio problems like you're having (from xbox hdd). maybe it's a settings thing?

if you're ripping directly to the xbox hdd using dvd2xbox, you can just use the stacking thing mentioned above

oops, that was another thread...goto into the video_ts folder. on the left, click on stack or something like that...i read that in another thread earlier tonight...

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talkingwires · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2004, 12:59:00 PM »

If you're wondering a menus, subtitles, chapter stops, etc., for DVDs on your HDD, it can't be done. XBMC doesn't support displaying the menus, and DVDX2 can't play movies from the HDD. There was a thread here earlier where someone was offering ten bucks to the first person to figure it out, and it kinda petered out without anyone having a good answer. <

cheesy99 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 12, 2004, 03:22:00 PM »

Why don't the DVDX2 people and the XBMC people combine their efforts to make one badass application? <

Arion · « **Reply #10 on:** September 13, 2004, 10:56:00 AM »

If you want DVD Menu support for HD Movies, then Xine(under linux) may be an option. I'm not sure though. I don't think XBMC will have menu support before mplayer has it though. <

heinrich · « **Reply #11 on:** September 14, 2004, 06:27:00 PM »

Arion · « **Reply #12 on:** September 16, 2004, 01:21:00 PM »

The people I reckon should have shared resourses are the Xine, and Mplayer groups. XBMC is based on MPlayer. Xine borrowed took dvdmenu code from ogle, another DVD-Menu enabled linux dvd player.

On that note, since mplayer is compiled as a seperate DLL to the most of XBMC, it may even be possible to replace it with a Xine module. The DLL is <I_think>I believe the standard windows variety, and XBMC uses wine(www.winehq.com) code to load it</I_think> <

buehrer · « **Reply #13 on:** September 27, 2004, 07:09:00 AM »

Hi,
Just to clarify, are you saying that you have a DVD on a shared hard drive, and you couldn't play it on the XBOX? I played one last night, and it wasn't a problem. I didn't try subtitles, etc. I have XBMC set to use DVDX2 for DVDs (in the xml setup file). I went to My Videos (which has the hd dvds), then to that subdirectory, then I chose 'Play DVD.'

Regards,
Greg <

Boff · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2004, 08:31:00 AM »

wonder if this of any use to any developer out there:
VLC media player source code (DVD menus navigation library)

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