Navigating DVD menus with Apple remote

[iBog]

I have some DVDs in their original ISO format. This retains the original quality of the movie and all the DVD features.

Boxee plays my ISO files fine. However, I'm unable to navigate the DVD menus with my Apple remote. Any possibility this would be fixed?

I've never tried, but I suspect this will be the same when playing the DVD directly from the physical media.

[agentlame]

is this on your atv, or a mac?

i will test an iso next time i'm around a mac.

[iBog]

I've only tested on my Macbook (my ATV is at home a few thousand kilometers away). I have to use the keyboard to navigate the DVD. Using the remote for up/down only adjusts the volume and left/right only does ff/rew (which doesn't do anything anyways).

[pzosa]

I have noticed the same thing...I tend to rip DVD's in full ISO that I rent or borrow, watch them when I can and delete the files when I'm done. Naviagting the menu with the remote did not work.

[knoall]

I rip my DVDs out to VIDEO_TS format with .vob files inside. I dont get any kind of DVD menu on my AppleTV. It just starts playing the movie (usually extra features and crap) and I have to manually skip forward to find the actual movie. :confused:

Anyone experience this as well?

[iBog]

I have ripped to video_ts files as well. The problem you're having is how you're ripping. You can rip the disc or only certain features. Only when you rip the entire disc will you get the DVD navigation menu.

[Boseman]

I have actually run into an issue where when ripped full disc via MTR, BOXEE seems to interpret the actual title start of the movie as it adds to the Movies section library. The pointer for the start of the movie is interpreted by BOXEE when run from the Movies section. In most cases for me, this is at a start of the wrong title, language issues, subtitle issues, etc. My only solution has been to remove that title from the list and re-add manually from Sources, browsing the Video_TS tree to the Video_TS.IFO file, selecting and adding the title accordingly. Then it works as a standard DVD, with menus and all.

It would be nice to see a setting option or the like that would allow for just selecting the Video_TS.IFO start as a default, rather than interpreting the actual title or start of the playback.

Or am I missing something?

[knoall]

I have ripped to video_ts files as well. The problem you're having is how you're ripping. You can rip the disc or only certain features. Only when you rip the entire disc will you get the DVD navigation menu.

The app I had been using had a switch set to remove annoying messages in the DVD. I disabled that switch and changed how i rip to dvd.iso and all seems to be well.

[ultrabob]

I can confirm that this seems to take place when disable UOPs is turned on in Mac the Ripper. I always turn that on because I hate not being able to skip previews and things like that. It there a good way to fix this without actually going in and deleting files as one person mentioned above? If removing files is the only solution, what is the best way to know what to remove?

[ultrabob]

Also is there way to change it so my e-mail address doesn't show up as my name? :(

[marcel]

username has been fixed..

[ultrabob]

Thank you Marcel!

[ultrabob]

If I can provide any assistance on debugging this problem, I'm more than happy to do it. I can try ripping DVDs in different ways and verify whether a certain method is causing the issue, throw a rip that doesn't work right into a folder for download by developers or whatever help is needed. Just let me know.

[Buckaroo]

Boxee just scanned my 500+ DVD rips, and not one of them seems to play back properly- instead of grabbing the video_ts.ifo file, it seems to have latched onto some random .vob in every case. Love to do what I can to help here.

[godospoons]

I've used MTR to disable the UOPs for the same reason. I get random start points on the DVD, rarely can use the navigational menus and have generally given up on viewing my ripped movies via Boxee until this is fixed. Fortunately, they still play properly in Plex, so I can use that for now, but would prefer to migrate entirely to Boxee and spare myself the dual life.

Timothy

[Buckaroo]

I have actually run into an issue where when ripped full disc via MTR, BOXEE seems to interpret the actual title start of the movie as it adds to the Movies section library. The pointer for the start of the movie is interpreted by BOXEE when run from the Movies section. In most cases for me, this is at a start of the wrong title, language issues, subtitle issues, etc. My only solution has been to remove that title from the list and re-add manually from Sources, browsing the Video_TS tree to the Video_TS.IFO file, selecting and adding the title accordingly. Then it works as a standard DVD, with menus and all.

It would be nice to see a setting option or the like that would allow for just selecting the Video_TS.IFO start as a default, rather than interpreting the actual title or start of the playback.

Or am I missing something?

Having the same problem, which is rendering my entire DVD library useless. Is there any way to fix a movie entry by changing the 'Path:stack:' parameter?

[pitrie17]

I have actually run into an issue where when ripped full disc via MTR, BOXEE seems to interpret the actual title start of the movie as it adds to the Movies section library. The pointer for the start of the movie is interpreted by BOXEE when run from the Movies section. In most cases for me, this is at a start of the wrong title, language issues, subtitle issues, etc. My only solution has been to remove that title from the list and re-add manually from Sources, browsing the Video_TS tree to the Video_TS.IFO file, selecting and adding the title accordingly. Then it works as a standard DVD, with menus and all.

It would be nice to see a setting option or the like that would allow for just selecting the Video_TS.IFO start as a default, rather than interpreting the actual title or start of the playback.

Or am I missing something?

Wow, that's annoying. That's how I back-up a large majority of my DVD's is a full-disc rip with VIDEO_TS folders, etc... After reading this thread I finally figured out how to get Boxee to read them as actual DVD's with menus and all. Right now it is kind of a painful task. If Boxee could recognize full DVD rips as such and play them back accordingly, that would be a dream. I've never tried an ISO full disc rip. Do you have to do anything funky with those to get them to play back as full dvd's (menus and all)? Also, what program/s do people use on mac to get full disc extraction to ISO?

[macdude22]

There's no one off solution for making an iso of a DVD on the Mac unfortunately.

However once you have a decrypted VIDEO_TS folder you can just make an ISO in Disk Utility and plop it in.

Toast also will make iso from VIDEO_TS, with optional compression if you want.

DVD2ONEX will also make iso from VIDEO_TS, again with optional compression if you wish.

This doesn't work with a lot of the rips from RipIt.app because they are currently ripping maintaining a lot of the odd copy protection quirks. However these VIDEO_TS folders, at least in DVD Player/Front Row almost always work because of it.

Looking forward to a fix for this, I just downloaded boxee yesturday, plopped in my DS9 backups and they start at some random point in some random episode. I'm not ambitious enough to manually add these things as they work fine in Front Row, w Sapphire to pull movie data down.

[cmolway]

Boxee just scanned my 500+ DVD rips, and not one of them seems to play back properly- instead of grabbing the video_ts.ifo file, it seems to have latched onto some random .vob in every case. Love to do what I can to help here.

some titles work for me, others start playing at random vobs or have the subtitlles turned on.

[alexreusch]

I have the same problem. I have ripped my DVD's to TS folder structure and boxee just starts to play something. Don't get it, what's the logic behind boxee. Depending on the movie, it is the main movie, sometimes with subtitles enabled... sometimes it's the bonus material or sometimes without audio at all... No DVD menu, nothing.

I run boxee on Windows and when I use alternate DVD player software for the same movies (such as Total Media Theatre etc.), it works without problems. I get the DVD menu and I can select all options (language, subtitles, chapters, main movie, bonus material etc.).

Is it possible to integrate a real DVD software player native in boxee which is 100% compatible to play ripped DVD's (ISO or TS folder structure)?

Next release on June, 23?

[bob3k]

Ok, I have read a bunch of threads trying to figure this out and I must be just missing something. I have ripped DVDs residing in a share. I have added the network source and it finds the directory. I have named the video directories as called out in the master thread on that issue.

It still just shows the directories and when entering them shows the individual files. Doesn't show one entry as described in "library mode" or autostart or anything. I have to navigate to the ifo file or whatever and start manually.

Where can I activate this "library mode," or create an iso from my video_ts folder. No matter what I do I can't seem to get Boxee to recognize this is a movie and not individual files.

I bet this is covered somewhere, so many threads and posts, but I can't find it.