I have around 1500 full Bluray Discs stored (legally bought mind you) on my 2x Nas devices. They are stored unpacked, so the root has the BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders. Because I purchase these discs in 2 different zones, my bluray collection consists of 2 different Region Codes, most of them are B, because I live in Europe, and some of them are A, which I buy in bulk from amazon.com mostly. Since a bluray region Code is not hardware locked and only software dependant, I have 3 licenses for the 3 major commercial bluray software players out there. I have Cyberlink PowerDVD 11 Ultra, Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre 5, and Corel WinDVD Pro 11. Each player is set to a differnt region code, so to cover A, B en C. Without having the hastle to change em all the time, then end up having used all 5 changes the software allows and then use Other Software or DVDFab software and reset it, so I get another 5. I've been working like this for the last 5 months or so.
Since the advent of the BRILLIANT, absolutely brilliant .miniso format you guys came up with at DVDFAB, I can now very easily create .miniso's for all my Blurays. I use DVDFab Virtual Drive 1.3.2.0 which to my knowlegde is the latest version, and together with having imgburn 2.5.6.0 installed, it makes this process an absolute walk in the park, for which I'm very very greatful indeed.
BUT !!
And here comes the problem, a problem of which I am extremely surprised to find no threads on this forum, or in case there is one, I must be the blindest xxxxxxxxxxx out there. (I'd like to add that I did find some similar problems, but NOT this problem exactly)
When mounting the .miniso files, by for instance double clicking on the file, DVDFab Virtual Drive mounts the fake iso beautifully, no problems there. When I start to play the Bluray Disc in any of the 3 software BD players I meantioned earlier, the movie plays perfectly up till a certain point, this point is mostly 2 - 3 minutes into it; then it starts stuttering like crazy. I guess the variation of the timing has to do with the bitrate differences from one Bluray to the other.
This problem only happens when the Bluray in question is stored on an external source, by that I mean when the movie is stored on an external USB HDD, be it either USB 2.0 or even 3.0, external firewire connected HDD, 400 and 800, or in many of my cases in point, the ethernet network connection, 1Gbps Cat6 cable.
When playing the exact same movies normally, without the .miniso, just loading it from hdd or creating a FULL BD Video .iso image file, they play perfectly, I know cause I've been testing it, and I've been watching them like this for the last 3 years now. Not one little hiccup, As soon as I create a .miniso, mount it, the movie plays fine for 2 minutes or so, then starts stuttering. It's a very consistent problem, it happens 100% of the time, always and with any Bluray Disc.
Which makes me conclude there is a buffering issue in the way DVDFab Virtual Drive mounts the .miniso format FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE (usb, firewire, Gigabit Network), there must be. Why am I so sure ?, Because when I copy any bluray to a local system drive, create a .miniso file, mount it, so exactly the same process, the bluray PLAYS FINE, from an INTERNAL SOURCE.
And another thing, the stutter happens with all 3 players, Corel, Arcsoft and Cyberlink, on EXACTLY the same time-frame. So it's not the software BD players either. I have also tried it on 5 different Computers and its always the same !
Which is a clear indicator the only changing factor is the source, as soon as it's EXTERNAL, its starts stuttering a short playtime into the movie. Hence my buffering issues with DVDFab Virtual Drive 1.3.2.0.
I absolutely adore this little program and the format u guys invented, its brilliant, but for me at this very moment UNUSABLE, because all my blurays are stored on network NAS (QNAP and THECUS) devices.
Please Help !!
Since the advent of the BRILLIANT, absolutely brilliant .miniso format you guys came up with at DVDFAB, I can now very easily create .miniso's for all my Blurays. I use DVDFab Virtual Drive 1.3.2.0 which to my knowlegde is the latest version, and together with having imgburn 2.5.6.0 installed, it makes this process an absolute walk in the park, for which I'm very very greatful indeed.
BUT !!
And here comes the problem, a problem of which I am extremely surprised to find no threads on this forum, or in case there is one, I must be the blindest xxxxxxxxxxx out there. (I'd like to add that I did find some similar problems, but NOT this problem exactly)
When mounting the .miniso files, by for instance double clicking on the file, DVDFab Virtual Drive mounts the fake iso beautifully, no problems there. When I start to play the Bluray Disc in any of the 3 software BD players I meantioned earlier, the movie plays perfectly up till a certain point, this point is mostly 2 - 3 minutes into it; then it starts stuttering like crazy. I guess the variation of the timing has to do with the bitrate differences from one Bluray to the other.
This problem only happens when the Bluray in question is stored on an external source, by that I mean when the movie is stored on an external USB HDD, be it either USB 2.0 or even 3.0, external firewire connected HDD, 400 and 800, or in many of my cases in point, the ethernet network connection, 1Gbps Cat6 cable.
When playing the exact same movies normally, without the .miniso, just loading it from hdd or creating a FULL BD Video .iso image file, they play perfectly, I know cause I've been testing it, and I've been watching them like this for the last 3 years now. Not one little hiccup, As soon as I create a .miniso, mount it, the movie plays fine for 2 minutes or so, then starts stuttering. It's a very consistent problem, it happens 100% of the time, always and with any Bluray Disc.
Which makes me conclude there is a buffering issue in the way DVDFab Virtual Drive mounts the .miniso format FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE (usb, firewire, Gigabit Network), there must be. Why am I so sure ?, Because when I copy any bluray to a local system drive, create a .miniso file, mount it, so exactly the same process, the bluray PLAYS FINE, from an INTERNAL SOURCE.
And another thing, the stutter happens with all 3 players, Corel, Arcsoft and Cyberlink, on EXACTLY the same time-frame. So it's not the software BD players either. I have also tried it on 5 different Computers and its always the same !
Which is a clear indicator the only changing factor is the source, as soon as it's EXTERNAL, its starts stuttering a short playtime into the movie. Hence my buffering issues with DVDFab Virtual Drive 1.3.2.0.
I absolutely adore this little program and the format u guys invented, its brilliant, but for me at this very moment UNUSABLE, because all my blurays are stored on network NAS (QNAP and THECUS) devices.
Please Help !!
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