UHD BDMV Folder Playback and OPPO 203 - Issues

[gable74 0]

Premier customer

MKV Playback is fine with Emby

UHD BDMV Folder playback is fine when using the OPPO SMB GUI

Using Emby, UHD BDMV folder playback does not work.  

Folder structure is:

Movies\Hellboy (2004)

Inside the Hellboy (2004) folder are a BDMV and CERTIFICATE folder

Trying to push the file to the OPPO with either the windows or android interface fail.  Can push MKV fine though.

I want to preserve the menus of my UHD movies and it seems BDMV files are supported, but I can not get mine to work.

Thanks for any assistance you can give.

[Abobader 3464]

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[gable74 0]

Read many more posts since I started this topic and it seems odd that BDMV folder support works for some, and not others.  When I press play, the screen goes black, then returns to home screen again on the oppo.  Emby back ground shows the movie playing, but nothing on the screen other than the oppo home screen.

 

I guess if you want to preserve menus, streaming directly from your oppo is still the only option.  Just wish the oppo interface wasn't so vanilla.

[Luke 42080]

OK yes for the best experience we'd suggest converting to mkv if you can. Thanks.

[gable74 0]

I get that, but I want to retain menus and full disk operation.  If Emby can't do that, I will just stick with the Oppo GUI.

Thanks,

 

[Carlo 4561]

It's understandable but a disc is meant to be used in a disc player and has the formats needed for such.  That is a very different requirement than what a streaming media server needs (media in a streaming format).  It's always best to have the media in a format meant for the type of system being used.

MakeMKV is the quickest method to get the main movie and specific audio & sub title tracks you need in a format that can be streamed.  It just copies the internals so there is no loss of quality. Many people then take this file and run it through a conversion to get smaller files that also stream easier as well as take up less storage space.

[gable74 0]

Again, I get that support for this format is not as popular (or easy) as MKV.  However, I prefer to watch my library as original as possible, which gives full menu operation, audio and subtitle preferences, and any extras that came with the disk, all in one file rather than multiple MKV rips.  The Oppo does this flawlessly as do other high end media boxes.  The Oppo just has a very vanilla GUI, but I can live with it given what the end result is.  The fact that Emby does not support ISO or BDMV playback, is okay, really.  I had seen other posts that mentioned the contrary so I thought I would ask.  I appreciate the feedback and suggestions.    

[gable74 0]

Also just noticed your Avatar, permanent waves chick, Paula Turnbull...very cool.  Big rush fan.

Edited December 13, 2021 by gable74

[Carlo 4561]

On 12/12/2021 at 11:28 PM, gable74 said:

Also just noticed your Avatar, permanent waves chick, Paula Turnbull...very cool.  Big rush fan.

Me too.

Correct me if I'm wrong (never had one) but isn't the Oppo just a disk based player?  Put another way it can play from SMS (network shares) vs an actual streaming client like a Roku or Android TV?

[gable74 0]

Yes.  It will play from SMB1, NFS, DLNA, external drive, etc. No built in net flix or add-on streamers.  It's picture eq and supported formats is pretty well unmatched,  which is why everyone uses it as a comp.