Official OPPO BDP-93 Owner's Thread - Page 816

Ok got the file.
It did not finish loading it just froze my 103. Will have to get my 93 out of the box to see what it does.

I'm starting to notice that when playing back mkv, some show an extreme level of frame drop/insertion (like 2 per second), making the material incredibly juddery.

If I stop playback and then play again without going back to the playlist, all is fine and it's smooth.

It's like the Oppo is becoming confused about refresh rates when beginning playback of some material and is performing an extreme standards conversion eg 30fps->24fps by dropping frames.

The material is predominantly 25fps or 23.976fps and I always have the Oppo set to 1080p for mkv viewing with a global Multi instead of PAL or NTSC.

Anyone experienced this before and know what might be going wrong?

It seems to be getting worse, but at least I know how to workaround it.

List from mediainfo on another MK3D:

I have a Denon 4311ci receiver and Oppo BDP-93 Blu-Ray player in a 7.1 setup. Having over 500 Cd's and 100's of Blu-Rays and DVD's is becoming cumbersome and I am looking to start burning these media to either a 3TB External Hard drive or a network server. Being new at this I have a few questions and would appreciate any input.

1) What software is best to burn the discs to hard drives?
2) What is difference between using a regular External drive vs a media server? I plan on just hooking up the External HDD via usb to either the receiver or the blu-ray player, dont think streaming thru wifi is important to me
3) What device is best to use for playback of the files? The Denon receiver or the Oppo?

Thanks again.

You might need to do the Maths again, as 3TB seems a bit optimistic if you wish to retain HD A/V.

1. I think DVDFab is highly recommended, but you might find the Streaming forum a better source.
2. I use a HP Microserver with Twonky over a wired Network - others say a powered hub with multiple HDD mounted locally is great, but I preferred the remote, quieter solution.
3. Oppo - I don't believe your Denon can stream video.

I have both the Denon 4311 and the Oppo 93. Although I have all my media ripped to a 2 TB Western Digital My Book Live nas, I use it to stream my media all over my house wirelessly. I have the nas wired into my router and the Denon and Oppo also connected by ethernet to the network. As another poster indicated above, you will need to use the Oppo for watching any video content since the Denon doesn't do video files. Also, the Oppo will play hi-rez audio files if you have any of those and the Denon is a bit fussy about playing those; sometimes it will and sometimes it won't, depending on the exact data rate/resolution, etc. I also have used a WD Passport 1 TB hard drive connected via usb to the Oppo and it works great as well. The one advantage of the nas, besides allowing you to send your video/audio all over the house, is that when you rip new content, you can send it from your computer wirelessly to the nas, whereas, with the hard drive you will need to disconnect it from the Oppo and hook it to your computer to dowload the new music/video and then disconnect it from the computer and hook it back up to your Oppo. For ripping video, I use DVDFab and for ripping audio, I use dbPoweramp.

This is the software I use, although there are other good choices, particularly for ripping CD's:

EAC for CD ripping to FLAC or WAV with cue sheet
DVD Audio Extractor for ripping DVD-A & music DVDs to FLAC
eac3to for ripping music Blu-rays to FLAC
DVDFab for ripping DVD-A, and music and video DVDs & Blu-rays to ISO
MP3tag for tagging FLAC or MP3 files

You didn't state whether you have an ISO-capable 93. If you do, I believe DVDFab is the only software that will rip a DVD-A to ISO if you have any DVD-As. If you don't have an ISO-capable 93, then you will want to use an MKV container or other methods for BD and DVD playback. Alternatives to ISO are highlighted in Bill McClain's excellent Unofficial FAQs.

I use both attached hard drives and several media servers, depending on my needs. Using a media server is great for creating music or video playlists, or playing content from a NAS. If neither of these are important to you, attached storage should work fine. If you plan to rip many BDs, you will need much more storage.

Be aware that a 3TB attached hard drive will not work unless you partition it and then only 2TB will be accessible. Plan on multiple 2TB drives connected via a USB hub if you use external HDDs. However, you can use a 3TB network drive or NAS if you plan to use a media server to stream content to your Oppo.
Edited by scolumbo - 1/30/13 at 3:30pm

Just got this response from OPPO support:

We would recommend having the disc replaced. We have confirmed with several customers that replacing the disc has resolved No Disc and Unknown Disc errors with the Dredd 3D title.

Best Regards,

Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc.
2629B Terminal Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
Service@oppodigital.com
Tel: 650-961-1118
Fax: 650-961-1119

^ Yeah, both that one and the new Total Recall seem to have some batch production/authoring issues. Sony has formally recalled early batches of the new Total Recall, and it wouldn't surprise me if the same thing happens for some batches of Dredd.
--Bob

Hello. I've owned the BDP-93 for almost a year, but I still can't figure this out: is there any way to program a track sequence from a cd? Sorry of this has been covered elsewhere, but search has gotten me nowhere.

Thanks much!

Is there a known way to roll back Firmware?
If it's a "gray area" please PM me.

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I guess I'll start here.

To start off, I have a BDP-93 I bough last year, and I absolutely love it!!!

I just bought the Dark Knight Trilogy Box Set, that was just released on Blu-ray.

The frst 2 movies (are supposed to) play in Dolby True HD, and the 3rd movie in DTS HD-Master.

I of course have bought and played lots of BD's on my Oppo, and all get automatically decoded to DTS HD Master..

However, when I play either of the first 2 movies, it plays in regular Dolby Digital.. I know this might sound like a Receiver issue, but I thought I'd check here.

My receiver is a Pioneer Elite SC-61, and I know it decodes DTHD..

Oddly too, the first 2 Batman movies either skip or don't have a main menu. When I put the BD in the player, it starts playing the movie right away.. I'm stating this because I thought I may have to manually change the audio settings in the BD Menu... but it doesn't even pull up.. if there is one.

Can anyone help? Oppo does play in DTHD correct? I mean it plays DTSHDM..

Yes, the Oppo 93 does play Dolby TrueHD if that track has been selected either manually or automatically via the disc authoring. Titles with TrueHD also have a DD soundtrack interleaved with the TrueHD track, or provided as separate tracks, for those systems that can't handle TrueHD.

I know some earlier titles defaulted to plain DD as the first track, even though the title had lossless soundtracks too.

Can you manually select TrueHD via the Audio button on the remote?

THANK YOU!! That did it!!

I understnd some earlier titles might default to DD, but this is the newly released trilogy! SO I fugured it would default to DTHD, kinda like the 3rd movie (Rises) defaults to DTSHDM.

But Yes, when I hit the Audio button on the Oppo remote, it was the 2nd selection (2/5).. So I guess I'll have to do that each time I play Batman Begins, and Dark Knight.

Funny, I never use my Oppo remote because I'm using a universal remote.

Ian, another weird thing I was saying in my original post. The first 2 movies in the trilogy don't have, or bypass, the Top Menu. (I'm assuming the Top Menu is the menu that lets you select scenes, Audio, Special Features, etc.) When I put the BD in the Oppo, it starts to play the move right away, and when I press the Top Menu button, I get the "CAN NOT" symbol in the top left corner of hte screen.

Either way, thanks for the reply and your help!!!

Its the Blu Ray disc from my own experience. I had a panny blu-ray player just around the time the first batman came out and realized after watching it for a half hour that it was not playing in Dolby Tru HD so I had to force it by using the audio button options so once I switched to the Oppo-93 and re-watched was not a issue and thats the only disc I have ever had that happen to me on so far.

yeah i hear ya.. I was thinking since it was a re-release (the trilogy was just released on BD) that they would default it to DTHD.

Thanks for the tips!!!

So there is no way to attach a 3 or 4TB external HDD to the Oppo and have access to the entire space? Do you know why there is a 2TB limitation?

I`m thinking of ripping my entire blu-ray collection (150 movies) and place them on a external HDD and then play them via USB. Was set to buy a 4TB disk but just saw your post..too bad.

How does playing blu-ray rips (MKVs) from a NAS compare to playing them via USB? Is it a smooth playback from the NAS or will there be lagging? Which do you prefer for the best experience?

NEVER assume anything about what a studio may or may not do with any release.

See the FAQ:

• What partition tables are supported on attached hard drives?
• What is the maximum supported size of an attached hard drive?

It works well over wired ethernet. Wireless may be marginal for full bandwidth HD video.

-Bill

I have a cheap powered four port Belkin USB hub with four 2TB drives connected to it. I switch the output USB cable between our .ISO enabled OPPO-93 and my computer. It's more expensive (about $52 a TB) but it works. I usually only power up one drive at a time which is also an inconvenience. I haven't reached 50% occupancy yet.

I ripped to M2TS with no issue, as I had issues with HD Audio inside MKVs.

what are most people using for audio output... auto, bitstream, PCM?

thanks

PCM is the safest.
Bitstream can potentially lead to issues.

I prefer bitstream myself. there has been a problem or two with certain titles like total recall.

Jacob

Has there been problems reported with the YouTube app. For about the last month or so I have to pair my account with the app everytime I use it. It use to not be that way, I logged in one time and it retained my account. Also steaming has been horrible lately, with so much buffering its unwatchable.

I like to use the app. for watching movie trailers via playlist that I set up before starting a movie.

I prefer bitstream. Seems to be relatively bullet proof for everything I play. I did have to use PCM with the new release of Total Recall as someone else mentioned.

I'm helping out a friend who owns this player. He is having playback and DISC UNKNOWN issues. He tells me he has a firmware upgrade CD, so I tell him that's probably his problem right there - that his unit needs new firmware. I apply the firmware, and no help - won't even reliably play an old "Gone With The Wind" Blu-Ray,. So I go onto OPPO's site and realize that he probably got the CD a LONG time ago, as it was v38-0126 and there have been 6-7 upgrades since then.

My question: if you had a "blank slate" like this, which firmware would you load? He doesn't do anything with this unit but play discs to his Kuro - no high-speed internet in the house even. Is the current release the best choice?

That's what I would do. Check each of the three firmware version numbers after the update and make sure they are all current.

-Bill