the player HIMEDIA and DVD.iso

[q10pro1]

HIMEDIA the player stops on the menus of dvd.iso and not later

[futeko.com]

I can't replicate this behaviour.

Playing from Mediacenter the box plays the DVD ISO samples I have here (both ISO and folder format) just fine.

You shouldn't get a DVD menu from Himediaplayer, just HiMedia DVD lite menus (Audio - Subtitle - Chapter - Playlist - Setup at top of screen when pressing menu key).

[Nice Monkey]

I can't replicate this behaviour.

Playing from Mediacenter the box plays the DVD ISO samples I have here (both ISO and folder format) just fine.

You shouldn't get a DVD menu from Himediaplayer, just HiMedia DVD lite menus (Audio - Subtitle - Chapter - Playlist - Setup at top of screen when pressing menu key).

I have some that crash at the start too. Reported and send sample ages ago (was reproduced too). No Menu support which 5+ year old players do have. Still problems with de-interlacing (wrong auto frame-rate for 50i which is output as 25). Can have a look again at chapter and title selection but I am pretty sure there are issues there too. Please try a DVD with Episodes/Recordings on it or one using seamless branching for combined Theater Version and Directors Cut playback. Using a different old player for my DVD's as only that one is reliable and full functional.

I know most people just go for stripped/compressed AVI's and MKV's only but some of us like the real original thing in 1:1 copies for DVD and BD.

[futeko.com]

Kodi internal player works pretty well for DVD ISO.

It is a puzzle why current generation products have such problems with DVD ISO. It's a problem across manufacturers and chipsets.

[Nice Monkey]

Kodi internal player works pretty well for DVD ISO.

It is a puzzle why current generation products have such problems with DVD ISO. It's a problem across manufacturers and chipsets.

It is not a chipset problem as all recent players can play the underlying media files correctly.  It is a matter of firmware code for the additional processing needed. We expect the "as they are implemented features" to work correctly, the rest may be regarded as feature request (Title support, Menu support)

My view on the puzzle: The world moved on to Android in the mean time and no enthusiastic volunteers working on DVD anymore (they are already at UHD/HDR now). This leaves the (retro) DVD work to the companies selling media players. They do packaging mainly and glue available (public) code together and only add own code where unavoidable. That makes adequate DVD support a matter of priority versus resources needed/available to fix it.

No I very much dislike jumping between Media Center player and KODI player as the File Browser, User Interfaces and Remote Control operations are completely different. Agreed before that KODI is a workaround (or using other players).

[DancesWithChickens]

exhuming this corpse of a topic...


Anyone else having issues with the playback of DVD isos?
I recently ripped some concert DVDs.
KODI VideoPlayer is playing them okay, but using the wrapper, i cannot access menus or change chapters.

using latest cfw

[nandish]

Install VLC Android from the Google Play store. VLC Android easily opens iso dvd, menus and chapters.

[Mount81]

But does it switch interlaced freque properly? 25fps->50Hz for PAL and 29.97->59.94Hz for NTCS?

[DancesWithChickens]

so... as of 2019, the internal media player cannot play DVDs properly.
Which is like buying a car that cannot drive on roads.


That was the last time i bought a media player from China.

[Mount81]

Yea, very annoying, you have to remux every one of you DVD's to .mkv first, and still, you have to switch the frequency manually for proper playback.   

KODI is not an option, it doesn't switches freque either and does very lame deinterlacing compared to HiPlayer.

If there would any another Android Player app that could do this properly (I would even need the DVD menu, only the playback) it could be easily set up for KODI to playback only the DVD's.

I don't thing it would be so hard to implement by HiMedia, it's just that they don't even give dime...

[DancesWithChickens]

*push*


if there is another firmware,
this is definitly one issue that should be adressed.