dvd off network drive??

[seti]

Are there any software dvd players that can use a network drive? I'm trying to get something set up so I can use a laptop's dvd player. If there's no player that can do that...is there anyway I can make a home network look like it's one machine, and trick the player that way?? Ha, I'm thinking out loud hear, and don't know much about networking. I can always hook the laptop up to the tv, but that way I only get 2 audio channels. Anyway, just though I'd through these question out there. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[JW310]

You might want to check out the DVDTalk forums (http://talk.dvdtalk.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro) and search through the DVD-ROM forum. Either that or post your question there. All DVD gurus over ther, so I'm sure they'd have your answer. Not to put anyone down here, though, so sorry if I did. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

I'll do a search over there for you, and let u know the results.

JW

Edit: Just did a search there, and no luck. It might be worth giving the question a try over there, if you don't find the answer here.

[This message has been edited by JW310 (edited 01-16-2000).]

[seti]

Thanks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I'll give that go too.

[seti]

"Actually this can be done. I develop DVD titles so I need to test them off hard drives before I have the actual discs made. Here is how I do it.
My playback system is a Dell 7500 running the Quadrant Cinemaster Software DVD player. This system is connected via a 100 Mbps ethernet to my NT based authoring systems. The trick is to put the "Video_TS" directory on the source system in the root of one of your hard drives. If you have a DVD-Video title in your DVD-ROM drive then you dont have to do anything special.

On your target system use Windows Explorer to connect to the hard drive or DVD-ROM drive on the source system. You dont have to make it a permanent connection but if you are going to do this a lot you might want to.

Now make sure you dont have a "Video_Ts" directory on any of your source system drives, or a disc in a DVD-ROM drive attached to this system directly. Launch the Cinemaster software DVD player and it will search all your drives (local and network) to find the first drive with a "Video_Ts" directory. It should find the drive on your source system and start playing it.

One word of caution. You are going to need a fast network connection to make this work. You may be able to get it working with a 10 Mbps ethernet connection but there will be times when you get poor performance from this slower version of ethernet. It would be better to have the 100 Mbps ethernet set up.

One other note. This trick may work with other hardware or software decoders, but they must be Windows DirectShow compliant. That means the Creative Labs boards will not work since they dont support DirectShow."

rlabarge

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