HI, not sure if this makes sense. Is it possible to use external players to play back certain type of video files? Or even more flexibly, is it possible to specify arbitrary command in MC when its asked to play a certain type of file.
This is why I might use this feature. I have been ripping my BDs into decrypted files so I can watch them at home in all rooms and use MC media server to watch them away from home. Currently this hinges on a decryptor which has becoming rarer. Used to use DVDFab but they were shutdown in US and then I used AnyDVD till they went out of biz, apparently DVDFab is back but they announced that they were not going to support advance BD+ encryption. I sympathize with the industry that if anyone can copy the BD content to unprotected files on hard drive, it is then impossible to enforce copy rights, but I also believe if I buy the disc, I have the right to be able to access the content in all reasonable way I want.
I believe powerDVD still is supposed to support BD playback with all encryptions into the reasonable future. So I m tempted to change my process to writing the BD into encrypted ISOs and use powerDVD to play them. I m not sure how the PQ compares between PowerDVD and madVR but that s a different topic. and I would loose most of the audio enhancement features in MC but that might be savagible with loop back into MC.
However, that means I have to give up MC as the content library manager unless MC can be configured to send the ISO to powerDVD. apparently calling a compatible virtual drive program to mount the ISO might just be enough to trigger PowerDVD playback. but currently I do not think that is possible.
Ultimately, if MC can support native BD decryption, all these become moot. I would also love to see MC TV support encrypted channels. right now I still use Win MC7 to watch/record/playback HBO. FOX for some reason started to mark their channels as copy once, which hosed playing MC.
