i'm just watching ripped BluRay on my Sage Extenders...

Not knowing the facts, I'm still going to speculate here. If people are getting the video to play on the HD-100 and only having problems with the audio, then I would guess there is a fix out there. It doesn't sound like a processing problem, but something else. So I would think it is "as simple" as finding the right process to include the correct audio format in the stream (whether that is AAC or DTS or something else).
 
Does AnyDVD HD support ripping both of the HD audio codecs (Dobly TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio)? Do the SageTV extenders support playback of them?
 
Yes, both get ripped. No, extenders don't support TrueHD (yet). I'm pretty sure they're working on exactly that.
 
Do you know if anyone got this to work with the HD100, or should I give up on that idea alltogether?


From this page:

Has anyone tried Ripbot264 (v.1.13.2)? I've used this with AnyDVDHD to successfully rip and compress BluRay's to .mp4 files. I find that encoding at constant quality (CRF=19) works very well with no studder on the HD-100 extender. Image quality is the same as the original.

Encoding time takes around 30+ hours on a dual-core processor, but it's something that you'd only have to do once.

The process I see posted here seems very tedious and complicated. Ripbot automates all of it.
 
SageTV has expanded their BluRay support in the latest beta with the HD200.

A user confirmed yesterday on the forums that he was able to put a BluRay disk into his server with AnyDVD-HD loaded, and playback via the HD200.

HelenWeathers said:
Works like a charm on the HD-200 with any dvd hd software loaded/resident. Drive needs to be one of your movie import folders. Sage audio language selection menu works as well.


here's the thread about it.
 
wow, that's the day I am waiting for, where I can pop in a BR disc in my networked PC drive with AnyDVD, and play it back like I do with DVD's. Geeks.com has their BR drive on sale yesterday for around $90. Very tempting now!
 
Yes, but I would consider upgrading to a HD200 if this really works. Between the new Hulu feature they showcased at CES, and BR playback, there is no doubt that it's worth investing in an upgrade. I guess the big question is if this will work for any discs (supported by AnyDVD that is).
 
SageTV has expanded their BluRay support in the latest beta with the HD200.

The new Sage BluRay support works awesome. I ripped X-files/IWantoBelive in BR last night using AnyDVD-HD, had a crapton of .m2ts files. I'm on the latest Sage beta plus HD200 firmware beta, and got lazy and just pointed it the movie import directory. By lazy, I mean i didn't feel like using any other software to strip out audio streams/merge .m2ts files/etc.

Bada bing, it worked fine with the s/pdif hooked up to my Denon3805. I didn't check which audio track it was on, didn't watch the whole movie, but it sure as hell sounded like surround sound. (the bass is awesome in that movie, but the subwoofer was shaking the house a little too much at 10:30pm to watch the whole movie).

i'll try it tonight with the analog outputs to make sure that's also okay.
 
IVB said:
The new Sage BluRay support works awesome. I ripped X-files/IWantoBelive in BR last night using AnyDVD-HD, had a crapton of .m2ts files. I'm on the latest Sage beta plus HD200 firmware beta, and got lazy and just pointed it the movie import directory. By lazy, I mean i didn't feel like using any other software to strip out audio streams/merge .m2ts files/etc.

Bada bing, it worked fine with the s/pdif hooked up to my Denon3805. I didn't check which audio track it was on, didn't watch the whole movie, but it sure as hell sounded like surround sound. (the bass is awesome in that movie, but the subwoofer was shaking the house a little too much at 10:30pm to watch the whole movie).

i'll try it tonight with the analog outputs to make sure that's also okay.

Well, the analog outputs are a no-go; there's no standard 2ch audio track on this DVD, the only options to select for audio are DTS-MA and AC3 5.1. Not the end of the world for this particular DVD, i'd only watch it in the H/T anyhow which can decode the AC3. But it is a bummer that there will be certain BR DVDs that I'll want to watch in the MBR via the analog audio out, so i'll still need tsmuxer for that.
 
Not really sure; i've never ripped anything in .ISO format. You should ask on the Sage forums.

That said, i doubt the extender can handle it in "Sage" mode. perhaps in "standalone" mode, though.
 
I used to use the sage hd100. I could play blurays through it but the process to get the m2ts muxed was a pain in the a**. I am now using windows 7 media center playing bluray iso files with TrueHD straight to my onkyo receiver. These wont play through the extender, but i dont use the extender for main watching.
 
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