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hi,

i have already posted this on sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/tracker....=581838

i was just wondering if other people are experiencing the same problem. so here it goes:

i have noticed there is a problem with dvd playback
from an image file with the latest builds of xbox media
center (1.0+) .

problem:

i select the image file and press play. nothing
happens. i cannot move through the xbmc menu for about 30
seconds (i guess xbmc is trying to load the file).
after 30 seconds i can move through the menu again but
the movie is never started.

some dvd images do load but then the menu is skipped
and dvd playback is started somewhere halfway the
movie. i cannot rewind it to the beginning -> this
results in crashing the media center. it doesn't matter
whether i stream the file over the network (smb) or
copy it to the xbox hard drive and try to load it from
there, all the same results.

also related to this, is the problem i cannot select
dutch subs on a dvd that has multiple subs listed.

this doesn't happen on all dvd images. some dvd images
play without problems (usually the ones with only
english subs).

when i experience problems and i reboot the xbox and
switch to the older xbmc 1.0 version it usually works
(but not all the time).

if i burn the image to dvd and play it with the dvd
dongle free player 2.0 it always works.
do a search from 'the beginning' for "dvd and img" or "dvd and image" in both the xbmc support and bug discussion forums and you find plenty:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....t=12040
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....t=12337
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....t=10505
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=9835
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=4767
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=4238
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=4070
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=3664
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=3060

so currently xbmc dvd support is limited to .img that doesn't contain a menu, or if they have a menu then the main feature must be first in ifo.

workaround: when you backup dvd's to images use dvdshrink or clonedvd to remove all menus and extra features, leave only the main movie.

ps! which year/date is your xbmc cvs build from?, "xbox media center (1.0+)" sounds really old, always try using yesterdays or todays build.
allright i make have a fix for the dvd iso/img playback issue. i had the same problems some dvd iso's would play some wouldnt. i even changed them to .img as suggested.

i remembered that prior to several months back most my dvd isos used to work. so what i did is i installed xbmc-1.1-ind point release and renamed my dvd images to isos. now 99% of my dvd images play. i still had to rename a tiny fraction of the dvd images to .img.

so now i basically run 2 xbmc's of my xbox. one for the dvd isos and the other for everything else.