VLC can play HD DVD

But not HD DVD movies.

It can play my video, but no audio. My HD-DVDs have Dolby Digital audio. What did you encode your HD-DVDs in? (PCM or DD?)

I am a bit confused...Are you saying you are actually burning HD-DVD compliant files onto regular DVD discs or are you just creating a HD-DVD compliant directory on your hard drive and then playing it with VLC?

If you are burning on an actual disc, how much video can you fit on a sigle sided disc? Will the disc play in a HD-DVD STB player?

If you are creating on a hard drive, excuse my ignorace but, what is the point? Why not leave the material in its original form (.TS, .mpg) and just use MPC with the appropriate codec for playing?

I regularly encode HD material to x264, will this work for creating HD-DVDs?

I don't think we will ever be able to just copy a HD-DVD to our hard-drive, isn't that what all this HDCP is about? To prevent ripping DVDs?

Thanks

Hi,
using a 360 HD Drive you can copy the complete HD DVD to your HardDisk BUT you can not play them due to AACS copy protection. Takes ~30mins for 27.4 gig (King Kong)

You can burn you MF5 HD DVD to a DVD R/DL and the Toshiba (X)A1 will play them. 360 xBox + HD addon drive as well BUT the xbox struggles with the high BR (at least for HDV 25Mbps). HDTV streams has been reported to work.

WinDVD 8 and VLC will play a MF5/VS10+ authored HDVTS folder of the harddisk. I confirm this because I did test.

To play movies of HD DVDs using the 360 HD drive you need the jap. WinDVD 7.5 version (which will restrict your output to 960x540 even if connected by HDMI with HDCP) OR wait for WinDVD 8 with HD support (Feb 2007, don't trust anouncements) OR PowerDVD + HD support (only god knows when available) OR Nero Showtime 3 + HD support (delivery promised and forgotten).

BTW. the MS HD DVD Jumpstart package + WMP 11 won't play it either.

One can get really exited about the new digital world....

sandra

Right, WinDVD8 (U.S. version) doesn't have the HD DVD or BD add-ons. You have to have, as Sandra said, the Japanese version.

Why?

I meant it seriously. Why did you bump the thread? Generally people bump threads when they have a question than isn't being addressed. Since you didn't have a question open I wondered why you were bumping the thread. Are *you* offering anything new?

Maybe he just wanted to bring the topic to people's attention. He might have wanted to remind people this is possible, or encourage people to try VLC.

I never got VLC to play any HD DVD movies. regardless if they are from the 360 addon or ripped to HDD.

I guess, but it might have been better to say that in your bump post. It seemed awfully self-aggrandizing without any addtional information.

So no real new information, but you wanted to remind people that VLC can play HD content that has had it's encryption removed. Got it. Thank you.

Truth is ..it's not yet 100%. EVO's are still not there.

Already tried that. There must be something I am doing wrong. I tried to the play the EVO but just get sound and no picture.

I think it's great that they got EVO Demuxxing working correctly. Now all they need is DD+ support and you'll have a viable open source alternative, sans the pretty interface.

How is this looking, can VLC play HDDVDs now? I'm fixin' to get the XBox addon as a gift to my nephews, but it would be nice to be able to play HDDVD on OS X (as the XBox addon is recognized via USB)..

A little up for an interesting thread!