[WINDOWS] bluray support selects wrong playlist

The main movie is NOT always the largest file size. The Cars bluray is the best example for it. It consists of hundreds of small files, because they also translated strings in the pictures and therefor combine hundreds of small clips for each language, reusing generic clips where possible.

da-anda Wrote:The main movie is NOT always the largest file size. The Cars bluray is the best example for it. It consists of hundreds of small files, because they also translated strings in the pictures and therefor combine hundreds of small clips for each language, reusing generic clips where possible.

I am aware of small files, incredibles is another one, but the mpls which references those main mt2s files should also explain the combined file size... adding up to a large file size

Here is the incredibles bdinfo, the mpls file which refrences all those mt2s files contains the file size, and is infact the largest....


00800.mpls the box which i have ticked at the top is the main mpls file which plays all those tiny mt2s streams in the proper order.

It is yet again the largest file size....

Ignore the duplicate mpls entries as those dont matter in this topic, they just are duplicates of that playlist.

Notice the 29gb

You can also see all those tiny mt2s streams in the second area.


http://imageshack.us/f/41/bdinfo.png/


Going by length again does not always work, i just noticed the movie red cliff also plays the extras because its standard definition 4X3 video is a few minutes longer then the main movie.

Here is another one, underworld blu-ray (american version) this one is extreme. XBmc plays the extras because it is exactly 1 single second longer then the main movie. The file size difference however... the main movie playlist file is much larger size wise.

http://imageshack.us/f/109/bdinfo2.png/

Check the source of DVDFab's XBMC-based player it pops up a window with stream selection - maybe it could be incorporated.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123801&page=3

Interesting, I will keep my eye on that.

I am all for external players, but i think i made a really good point here on something that could easily be changed to improve xbmc.

its not so much I use xbmc for playback, but its also scrapping cases incorrectly as "Dvd" due to this, I dont think this would be a tough fix, and I feel like I made a valid point of simply using file size rather then movie length.

(2011-12-01 14:29)WhiningKhan Wrote:  Would it make sense to (at some point add code to) pop up a dialog that asks which of the playlists found from BDMV should be played? That would bring quite a lot of improvement in usability, IMO.

Definitly this. Because even if XBMC could pick the right playlist, it would be useless. It would be great to see a list and be able to play all the video that is available on the BD. This will be like BD Lite support that other media streamers do. This would be perfect and if we had this, we wouldn't need to install an external player for blurays.

i keep when possible all bd in iso, all the 50gb , what I'm doing right now with this type of commentary movies ( i have at least 5 of them ) is using bdinfo + tsmuxerR + mkvmerge to mkv keeping the original with 100% full quality, but that is my only option.

i don't see myself using a external player, too many issues, at the moment xbmc its the most perfect "out of the box"

since the full menus is java licensed, the way is when we add the movie to xbmc, if is the wrong file, adding a option to change the m2ts file to play, and make it default.

blu ray player support full menus windows or mac http://www.macblurayplayer.com/ and with the file structure correct, i can play the correct movie, but blu ray player lacks dts-hd.

bluray enhancements for XBMC are in the works.

Tried blu-ray support in the recent nightly build. IMO in the list of titles there should be some info on title duration, because now it's hard to pick a title from the list of almost identical items only with different numbers. Or maybe the list should be sorted according to the lengths of titles with the longest on top. I mean something similar to "BluRay Handler" plug-in for Mediaportal: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/thread...beta.81068

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/componen.../m/892.png

Has there been any developments here?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 is another example of the improper playlist getting played. It plays the directors cut playlist.

I thought from this thread that functionality had been implemented in the source for a dialog box to select the playlist on movie select, but I don't see it.
Currently for 5 different movies I have to minimize XBMC and launch another player
Not good for my two remote sites that use harmony remotes.