Official OPPO BDP-93 Owner's Thread - Page 627

Yes.

Thanks gsr and Neuromancer for the info. That's why I gave my 1000 dollar Denon Blu-Ray to my Son so I didn't have to download to a disc. The Oppo has been working flawlessly until I put in Hugo. I did not visit this thread too often because it is so reliable/dependable of a Blu-Ray player. Glad they are going to release update via wifi makes my life a little easier. We just watched a different Blu-Ray instead of Hugo. Will watch Hugo when Oppo has a update to download. Thanks again for the quick information.

Now that its been a month since Cinavia is required by all Blu-ray players, since Oppo continues to sell BDP-93 does this mean Oppo will include Cinavia in the new firmware? I hope not, after losing ISO support this will be the last nail in the customers coffin of being able to play backups.

If I understand correctly, the OPPO BDP-93 and all earlier players are grandfathered in. There shouldn't be a Cinavia firmware. In fact it may require hardware.

I am doubtful it requires additional hardware. Sony PS3 enforces Cinavia only after a firmware v3.10 update. I hope that because BDP-93 was released prior to the date it is grandfathered in not to include Cinavia. Movie industry is really dumb. They manage to come up with these requirements, first Cinavia, then attempted SOPA wonder whats next. They just dont understand that this will lead to increased piracy.

Note that if you do update to the latest Beta firmware, just to watch Hugo, you will forevermore lose the Oppo 93's ability to play ISO rips from attached HDD/flashdrive.

Be very sure you want to update as it is not possible to rollback to a previous firmware version.

The studios don't want the consumer to be able to play perfect digital rips of their HD titles and they will do whatever it takes to make it difficult to do so, including heavying manufacturers to not support certain containers or codecs properly.

The only reason it works on PCs is that software is often open source and thus not constrained by studio licensing requirements.

Don't expect Oppo to ever support HD audio in mkv.

The best container at the moment for maximum HD support within the Oppo is M2TS (regardless of firmware): the only thing it misses out on is chapter navigation and forced subtitle support.

The best container if you still have ISO playback capability, is ISO.

Discs are generally unplayable because of:

1) Physical defect (damage or crud on the surface of the disc or laser)
2) Upgraded DRM
3) Authoring defects or trickery

IMO, the majority of cases of non-playability are due to 2) and 3)

When you rip a disc to ISO with AnyDVD HD, you generally remove the encryption and region code. Removing region code requires modifying Java (including removing BD-Live). In the process of modification, DRM and some authoring trickery get removed. The result is often an ISO that can be played, whereas the original disc can't.

A Bluray disc contains a number of M2TS files, that are the notional equivalent of vob files in a DVD; plus playlist and other supplemental files that are the notional equivalent of ifo files in a DVD.

Whilst it is possible to play an M2TS or vob file standalone, the player doesn't know which files to play to give the full feature: that's where the playlists come in.

The menus on a disc are the way that the playlists and specific tracks are accessed by the customer, but are under the control of the disc authors and can include trickery to make playback of rips difficult.

AnyDVD HD has a feature called Speed Menu which replaces the original tricky disc menus with a simple menu access to the playlists. Within each playlist, the player can be used to select the desired soundtrack or subtitle to use. The downside to this method is that the playlists are not identified as to their function (although Speed Menu attempts to identify the main feature) but it does give the customer total control over which playlist they want to view and when. An added bonus is that all discs now become capable of being resumed.

For recalcitrant discs where AnyDVD HD can't fix existing menu playability issues, Speed Menu may allow the individual features and extras to be played.

Therefore, by ripping to ISO with AnyDVD HD (and using options judiciously), it may be possible to play what otherwise would be unplayable discs, on an Oppo, without requiring a firmware update. This approach also supposedly supports 3D as well as 2D discs.

Is there a way that we can go back, re-install back to previous firmware for Oppo93 ? Thanks any help is greatly appreciated!

Mike

@Miketr75 - it's my understanding that you cannot

@general
of course if you were relying on .iso to play full backups of your discs, all is not lost... you can still make a perfect backup onto a new BD disc (if you remove DRM with AnyDVD HD) and just play that, to avoid worrying about damaging your original... this is going to be a $2 to $5 cost depending on size (25GB or 50GB), but then if a certain disc is important enough to merit a backup...

I don't see sticking a stake in the ground at firmware release X as being a good idea, one day it will just become annoying once the number of discs that don't work with it reaches a certain level, and you lose out on the gradual accumulation of bug fixes and feature introductions

I'm lucky in that I never considered buying the Oppo for the .iso purpose (I never even knew it could/would do that until I found this forum!)

Please forgive my ignorance for this question.
I watched Hugo 3d version without any problems. I have the last official firmware(December I think).
Why are some people having trouble & others are not?
I purchased my player last month.

Hugo played without error here too. Great movie by-the-way!

Like with the Universal EU title releases, different regions or even countries may have different authoring of the same title.

When saying you don't have issues with your title, it might be useful to say which country you purchased it from.

It is possible there may be an influence due to region mod chip too, or whether the player is connected to the internet: just too many variables in player setup, connectivity and discs to absolutely determine what might work and what might not.

Remember, this is a global forum and there is a wide variation out there in the real world.

^^^^^^
I purchased the Disk in Ohio USA.

I also had problems with Hugo, and also with Footloose (2011), both Paramount titles.

What worked for me was to load another paramount title, I used Paranormal Activity 3, and then eject at paramount logo and replace with Footloos/Hugo.

Good to see there is a new FW on the way already.

Thanks.

Edit: Both discs are US versions, played on a BDP 95 EU with region mod. freezes up in both reg A and B mode.

I dont have any mods on my player. Would that be why I am not having trouble with Hugo?

I have the region mod installed. I'm using the beta before the removal of ISO support, and Hugo plays fine on my 93. I tried both the regular and 3D versions of Hugo and both loaded and played without a hitch multiple times. I have online access set to limited in the player.

Adam

No.

I just tried to play the blu-ray version of Hugo & the unit froze.After holding the power button & getting the disk out I tried the 3d version & it played fine.
Is it because I started out yesterday with the 3d disk? I am confused.

I, too, had no problem with the Hugo 3D disk. However, in order to view the special features, I needed to use the standard Blu-Ray disk. The first time I inserted it, after a fairly long initialization, it started the Titanic preview. I tried to jump to the next preview (or main title) and the unit froze. After cycling the unit and ejecting the disk, I tried several variations of activating and deactivating Java and erasing persistent storage, but either the initial behavior repeated or initialization never completed. I finally installed the beta firmware and was able to skip to the main tittle and view the special features.

You do realize that this so called ripping software you judiciously use to evade trickery is authored in St. John's Antigua and Barbuda. Aren't there any competing products from a more legit company, rather then a payment/distribution pseudo org in Ireland and Baku Azerbaijan? As you say this is a global forum.

Does the previous SW version, back to December of 2011 play fine 3D BD ISOs and handle SBS at full resolution?

@JohnAV - can BD encryption removal and reverse-engineering/removing copy protection schemes ever be done by a "legit" company?
(EDIT - answering my own question, I guess it depends where you live - maybe Antigua/Barbuda? LOL)

I wouldn't bother trying to connect a USB stick or iPod. Just buy an AppleTV. It streams your whole music and movie library, plus it has internet radio and Netflix too (and I much prefer it's interface). Then you can use your remote, setup genius or play a y playlist you've created in itunes etc. it's $99, it would be silly to try and incorporate an old iPod.

Can anyone speak directly to their experience with a 93 vs 95 through the analog outs?

The BDP-95 owner's thread is full of people who can (and have) posted on their results with Analog.

The consensus in this thread and from reviewers is that the 93's analog is better than the 83's analog but not as good as the 95's analog. Most such comparison posts are in the 95 thread.
--Bob

Isn't Superdisc only do zone free DVD? Is there a version which could do Bluray region free?

Yes.


No. A hardware mod is required for playback of Blu-Ray discs outside the default region of the player.

I am still on the official FW and rented Hugo from Redbox last night and it was a no go for me. Unit froze and had to do a hard power button reset.
Cleared PS and still nothing.

So the BD would not work, but will the SD work if I would have rented that with this FW version?

I don't recall any reports about the DVD. The Blu-ray will work with the most recent beta firmware.

-Bill