Playing a BluRay ISO

[stubro]

Sorry is this is a novice question but I have been using Boxee/XBMC for a while on a hacked AppleTV thus I was never able to play my BR ISOs. Is there a trick to making it work on the BB? BB pulls in the art etc but when I try to load it I get:
Playback Error: The media source or file is not accessible.

I can play my burned DVDs from there, though they are Video_TS. Any help would be great.

Also none of my DVDs are showing up in the cover art but that is a small problem compared to the other issues so far with the BB. I hope the patches come soon.

[mickeykool]

Yes you can play blu ray iso on BB. I played mine w/o the menus thou and worked fine.

[scottct1]

Some of my Bluray ISO's (ripped using AnyDVD HD) work great on the Boxee Box, while some others buffer every few seconds (which is annoying!)

All of them however play fine on my WDTV Live.

Hopefully Boxee can fix this!

[dconti]

BR iso should play just fine. Are you playing over a network or local disk? Are you sure the ISOs are ok (they play in some other player)?

Thanks

[scottct1]

BR iso should play just fine. Are you playing over a network or local disk? Are you sure the ISOs are ok (they play in some other player)?

Thanks

I am pulling them off an external hard drive hooked up to the USB on the BB.

The files play fine on my WDTV Live, so the ISO's are ok.

[SHollywood]

I can play them fine but they just stop at times for no reason whatsoever??

[dconti]

I am pulling them off an external hard drive hooked up to the USB on the BB.

The files play fine on my WDTV Live, so the ISO's are ok.

Ruh roh.

What audio formats are they encoded with ? DTS-HD?

And what output are you using/what bitstreaming settings do you have?

[KCJay]

I can play them fine but they just stop at times for no reason whatsoever??

Same here. I have an external disk with many blu-ray ISO files connected to the Boxee via USB. I have at least one ISO that will not play at all (invalid file, etc.), but some other ones play fine for a few minutes, then will just freeze - freeze bad enough that I had to reboot the Boxee. These files play fine on my laptop and an ASUS box, so the files look fine. When I setup the Boxee, after upgrading the firmware to 1.0, I clicked all of the boxes on the right below HDMI, as my receiver plays all of those files. So....we may have a problem here, folks.

[floydian99]

Sorry is this is a novice question but I have been using Boxee/XBMC for a while on a hacked AppleTV thus I was never able to play my BR ISOs. Is there a trick to making it work on the BB? BB pulls in the art etc but when I try to load it I get:
Playback Error: The media source or file is not accessible.

I can play my burned DVDs from there, though they are Video_TS. Any help would be great.

Also none of my DVDs are showing up in the cover art but that is a small problem compared to the other issues so far with the BB. I hope the patches come soon.

I am having the exact same problem. All my BD Rips are stored on my WHS, all of them play fine using PowerDVD 10 on my local computer. The rips were created using ClownBD + DVDFab PassKey. I also copied one of the BD isos to a external hd and hooked the hard drive up to the boxee, still get the same error.

[SHollywood]

Ruh roh.

What audio formats are they encoded with ? DTS-HD?

And what output are you using/what bitstreaming settings do you have?

If these were in some way the issue, they wouldn't play fine for 15-20 minutes and just stop and shoot back to the file menu....would they?

[biosci]

I'm having the same issue with isos. Wired directly to network using a DroboFS. I don't have too many HD 1080p files but the mkvs I've tried so far work fully and the two iso ones I have that are BR 1080ps go between 40min to an hour and then drop off. They play fine if I use VLC on the desktop end but just fail to load after a certain point in the movie on the boxee box.

I hope this can be resolved soon.

[dconti]

If these were in some way the issue, they wouldn't play fine for 15-20 minutes and just stop and shoot back to the file menu....would they?

was asking in reference to the buffering issue.

playback stopping abruptly is separate, definitely.

[marcello696]

I am still having issues with BD ISO's buffering every 30 seconds but if I convert that same ISO to MKV with 1:1 conversion it plays just fine.

I am convinced this is not a network streaming issue

[ingoldsby]

I have been playing my blu-ray's perfectly but using MKV's. You can use MakeMKV to rip the video/audio and subtitle files you want from the disc and it packages them as an MKV with chapters. Just finished watching Avatar over my network - worked flawlessly.

I know this didn't answer your .iso question, but I have had issues with iso playback from dvd's using the BBox and decided to try this route instead - it works much better it seems.

[marcello696]

I have been playing my blu-ray's perfectly but using MKV's. You can use MakeMKV to rip the video/audio and subtitle files you want from the disc and it packages them as an MKV with chapters. Just finished watching Avatar over my network - worked flawlessly.

I know this didn't answer your .iso question, but I have had issues with iso playback from dvd's using the BBox and decided to try this route instead - it works much better it seems.

Im doing the exact same thing and it does work but the Boxee Box is advertised as working with BD-ISO and right now it constantly buffers and is unusable.

Converting to MKV is a temp fix at best and Im sure the Boxee team is not considering it a long term solution