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EcL1pZ
10th July 2010, 00:25
Hi everyone,

The forums blu-ray Decrypt/rip guide is excellent. I just need some extended help as the guide seems to be more for people who wish to reburn their movies.

I have a large blu-ray collection, (for me 40 discs is large, but I know people have into the hundreds) and I have 2 Netgear Digital Entertainer Elites EVA9000s in different rooms. Both are connected to my Netgear Readynas Pro and Infrant Readynas NV+. For the purposes of movies, and intensive bandwidth use, I use the readynas pro. I created the .iso file as the guide suggested and put it on my NAS but the eva9000 never saw the file. It seems the other DVD based .ISO files were fine but not the blu-ray based one. I guess its just a general limitation? I tried every format of iso, no look. Tried udf, no luck. I eventually pasted the whole BDMV dir into a folder on the NAS and now on the eva9000 when I go to that folder, i see the one video file (even though theres a ton of others) and it plays and looks great but buffering for 5 min gave me a clean 30 sec of play over the network. It takes forever! I can buffer 1/3 of a 4.7GB dvd iso within a few seconds.

Whats my recommendations? Convert the file into another format for easier streaming? Make a specific .iso file? I don't think its a bottleneck because steady transfers go 50MB minimum up to 90MB/sec. It could be the file itself straining the EVA9000 ?

Thanks for any input

EcL1pZ
17th July 2010, 09:07
bump.. still curious.

SomeJoe
19th July 2010, 01:09
I looked up your unit, and I can't find the specs on the 9000 anymore, it has been replaced by the 9100 and 9150.

In all likelihood, you will need to re-mux your Blu-Ray movies to the TS format to enable playback. There is also an outside chance that your unit could use MKV format as well.

You might look at some of the GUIs available for this task, including Ripbot, Staxrip, MakeMKV and multiAVCHD. I have never used any of them so I don't know what their capabilities are.

No set-top network media player that I know of can play Blu-Rays from .iso. They almost always have to be converted to another format, usually either TS or MKV.

bluesin
24th July 2010, 19:24
So what is a good way to convert them to TS in your opinion?

Lyle_JP
26th July 2010, 08:30
Rip with DVDFab. De/re-mux with TSMuxer. Tsmuxer is a cli tool, but there are GUIs available.