SamyGO

Hi all,

I just downloaded the mplayer sources, and had a go at compilation of them. No luck so far, lots of errors, think I'll have to strip it down to just dvd reading and decrypting first. I'm not aware of a simpler app that just reads, decrypts and dumps vobs. Might be helpful though, mplayer has become quite big over the years, and most of its functionality is not needed for this particular job.

Anyway, that's just the ripping. For the streaming, just a wild idea, couldn't it be possible to make a fifo with the right extension to fool exeDSP into believing its a compatible video file, and start streaming the (concatenated) vob to that fifo the minute exeDSP tries to open it?
Would require some daemon process to check whether files have been opened lately and to crank up mplayer if so, but I doubt whether such a process is fast enough.

Another possibility might be to inject DVD-specific code into exeDSP through the LD_PRELOAD environment pathway, has anyone looked further into that mechanism yet?

just brainstorming,

marcelr

I remember that I successfully compiled mplayer before but that is required lots of devel packages...
Mplayer is good for ripping iso to VOB. But Inspecting this for creating virtual file is futile. Instead we can research how mpeg acceleration chips working. If we handle this, than might be code a new player for this tv depending ffmpeg and or mplayer at back.

Of course it would be nice to have player functionality for dvd and blueray images in iso and filestructure format availiable but the obvious solution is of course to rip those DVDs and BDs (even if you just have downloaded them as files and do not own the actual discs) to some lossless or almost-lossless-compresssed format like mp4, mkv etc (most rippers allow you to adjust the desired level of compression)

For the tv to have dvd/blueray-filesystem/iso-player capabilities don't forget that it would have to support the menu /navigation system used on almost all commercial discs and it would have to support several different audio formats and at least two different video formats so although it would be nice to have it is certainly less work just to rip the movie to another format which is supported natively by the tv.