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XBMC will play almost everything in the world, as long as it doesn't contain DRM, or in the case of BluRays, it can play them just fine, after you strip the encryption off.
Transcoding is normally what you do if you want to play something on a x360 or a PS3, and that is because those systems only support a few filetypes, transcoding is just encoding on-the-fly to a format supported by the player you want to use.
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2012-01-26, 15:24
(This post was last modified: 2012-01-26, 15:43 by patseguin.)
The 360 or PS3 can't be an extender for XBMC, can they?
EDIT: Ok a couple problems. I ripped Real Steel to an MKV and it is play fine but with damn subtitles! How do I remove them. Also, I ripped Star Trek to an ISO (38GB, omg) and XBMC won't play it. Do I need external software for XBMC to play ISO's?
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OK I thought someone told me XBMC played ISO's "out of the box". So I will have to run something in the background then?
Weather doesn't work either. I set my location and nothing is displayed. I switched to the other weather app available and it gives me my current conditions but no forecast. I guess that's why it's a beta?
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I'm confused. Is that thread discussing some 3rd party software or is it saying that blu ray ISO's work out of the box? Because my Star Trek ISO won't play. Is this where AnyDVD HD comes in like bluray said?
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2012-01-26, 19:07
(This post was last modified: 2012-01-26, 19:55 by patseguin.)
Will do!
OK I installed AnyDVD and the ISO still won't play in XBMC. AnyDVD aside, I thought XBMC was supposed to be able to play ISO's out of the box...
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Well, nothing I'm doing will let me even see my ISO's now let alone play them. SHould I just give up and keep using M4K like I have been? I watched one last night and it was stunning. If I could get it to do digital surround instead of stereo I wouldn't even waste my time with ISO's.
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It'd s Blu Ray ISO I made the DVDFab. I installed AnyDVD HD version and rebooted and XBMC still won't play it.
Oh, and Cancuck you get can bet I'm going to put some serious backup on this thing. :-)
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If you don't care about the menus and other Bluray extras, just rip to a h264 with 6 channel audio, even multiple audio tracks of you want. Then save the storage space and hassel of dealing with Bluray ISO files. Otherwise you may need to do some experimenting and reading thru others trials.
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Ooh Canuck that;s a good idea. Do you think AnyDVD need to be the one that rips it in order for it to be played in xbmc?
Kricker, yeah I basically want to go through and just play the main features in bets possible audio be TrueHD, DTS, or whatever. What do you rip with?
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