To be fair my two scripts are a pretty acceptable workaround for me, launch the eject script from the favourites and then the Dvd_Fix script to play the disc. So i can provide logs if necessary but unless there is something about DVD mounting that can be easily changed within Kodi I think i may just have to live with this. I have noticed that when it doesnt work and an inserted dvd has refused to play or played incorrectly (menus get stuck, warning messages with garbled top half of screen) the “Eject” script often needs to be run twice before the disc ejects. So i think udiscs is mounting it correctly as a drive but when it gets mounted as a removable drive a few seconds later this then seems to prevent it playing properly as a DVD?īut if you insert the disk and then immediately launch “Play Disc” it mostly seems to work (tested on yatse remote too with just the “Eject Disc” command and the “Play Disc” command). The important part for DVD seems to be launching “play disc” immediatley after the disc is inserted, before the kodi “removable drive message” pops up. So this script will eject the DVD (if inserted), otherwise it will stop anything playing, inject the drive tray, then test if its a DVD or Bluray inserted and play each disc with the appropriate method. Kodi_command = 'kodi-send -action=\"PlayDVD\"' Os.system('sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/DVD') The next is a script i’ve called “DVD_Fix” which seems to work more often than not: #!/usr/bin/python So it stops anything currently playing, ejects the disc and reloads the favourites screen (so you can launch the next script when you have swapped the disc). Kodi_command = 'kodi-send -action=\"ActivateWindow(Favourites)\"' Kodi_command = 'kodi-send -action=\"Stop\"' So the first is the “eject” script which is fairly straightforward #!/usr/bin/python I’ve now been watching some DVD’s with Kodi and i’ve written a couple of scripts which seem to (almost) guarantee reliable playback.
MAKEMKV BETA WORKAROUND SOFTWARE
I haven’t ripped a DVD as I don’t have any did ripping software setup but i’m fairly confident that the drive is ok.
MAKEMKV BETA WORKAROUND PC
So i’ve tested the drive attached to my PC and any DVD I have tried has played reliably. If you do select backup, there is a dialog with an option to decrypt the AV files in the BDMV folder or to simply make an encrypted backup of the disc "as is".Ok so i’ve had a chance to play around with this some more. Once you click on the drive image to decrypt and read the playlists, that option is grayed out and you are in "MKV mode".
Not the OP obviously, but when you initially load a disc in MakeMKV, there is a backup option that creates the BDMV folder. If BDMV/ISO playback is the hill you want to die on, just get a Dune box and live with the other compromises on that platform. If you want the picture quality of the Zidoo and the options in HT that other devices don't offer, I figure you just have to suck it up and use a media format the device can utilize and quit stressing over stuff that is likely never going to change. It wasn't that bad (I had 2 Pioneers and 1 LG drive going). I realize there is a non-trivial amount of work involved in converting and labeling the MKV's for a sizable collection, but when I got the Z9X last year, I reripped my entire blu-ray collection (several hundred discs that I had previously run through Handbrake to further compress originally) as well as started ripping my 4K UHD collection from scratch (about 350 discs as of today). Even if your collection is all BDMV folders, MakeMKV can read those folders to create individual MKV's without having to grind through the original optical disc (much faster). I get the "it should work as advertised" thing, but Zidoo is hardly the first or last technology company to offer a software based product where something is buggy. If you do select backup, there is a dialog with an option to decrypt the AV files in the BDMV folder or to simply make an encrypted backup of the disc "as is". Click to expand.Not the OP obviously, but when you initially load a disc in MakeMKV, there is a backup option that creates the BDMV folder.
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