Is there an easy way to stream full bluray disc rips with menus and features over the network to my TV
Is there an easy way to stream full bluray disc rips with menus and features over the network to my TV
Most of my collection is just the movie rips of just the video that play fine in Plex or Jellyfin. I've got a couple of full disc rips though that have the menus and features and all just like you would if you put the disc in. I can open these in VLC on my computer by choosing the folder.
My living room setup is an Apple TV as the primary streaming device but I also have an Nvidia Shield pro and Google TV Chromecast.
Is there any way to stream these over the network into some kind of app on any of these devices?
EDIT
After some looking around Kodi might be able to do what I want. Going to investigate further.
EDIT 2
The Kodi repo with the required addon (HEVC kodi bluray addon) seems to be down, maybe permanently :/ Still looking for a solution
Why not just convert them and save 20gb of storage space?
Space isn't really an issue for me and I already have converted versions of these movies. For a select few all time favorites and discs where the full experience is part of the package (like the Criterion) I want to maintain the full bluray experience with all the special features and menus.
I like full menus and unaltered files without layering in additional compression. Also enjoy the extras which is why I get the BDs. Space is cheap in this day so I don’t care if it takes up more space. Quality and features to me matter more.
Plex supports extras just rip them to separate files. It's true you lose the menu though.
It's just that the compression on the disks is not very good and you can easily compress them a lot more without really any noticeable loss of quality.
Kodi can play discs if you rip them directly, menus and all.
If you already have plex setup, add the "plexkodiconnector" addon. It replaces kodis inbuilt, standalone media db with Plex, which gives some nice features like media sync between devices and intro skipping.
Jellyfin can do this with its kodi plugin as well.
Can you explain a bit about Kodi playing the discs? I've been toying around with this all morning but can't figure out how to launch the ripped disc. I've setup my network files and browsed to the folder with the ripped disc but there's no way I can see to actually open the folder as a disc that I can see and googling this has failed me.
I dont personally use this feature, but I know it's supported.
I would try a different ripped format. They should be .iso files, which is a direct copy of the disc. Kodi will load them like a virtual bluray drive.
This thread may also help you if you run into menu issues.
Infuse for Apple TV will do this. You can point it to any folder on your NAS as an SMB share. It’s how I play back my own Blu-ray Discs, 4K or otherwise. It doesn’t do menus that I remember, but you can select the title easily enough.
Highly recommend also pointing it to your Jellyfin instance and using that as your front end for other files as it seems to me to have the best ability to do direct playback without transcoding, and the fewest hiccups for audio playback sync issues which can be annoying.
While you can just point Infuse directly at your other folders, its metadata cache gets dumped frequently by the OS, and it has to get rebuilt which is slow and annoying when you just want to watch something. Pointing at Jellyfin also lets you use whatever custom Jellyfin posters you’ve selected which helps for keeping special versions/collections identifiable visually.
Yea, looks like infuse does a good job at just playing the movie both in folder format or ISO which is cool. Instantly recognized the movie. No menus unfortunately :/
Think I might just be barking up a nonexistent tree
Yeah that’s what I expected. I think the Kodi suggestion for the Shield is the most promising lead. Hope it works out.
There is a version of VLC for the Nvidia Shield, but it has a somewhat irritating UI and I don't know if it can actually read the menus like the desktop version can.
The Android version of VLC can play DVDs with menus, which is weird because the desktop version can't out of the box for legal reasons.
Yea I tried this, I think the app versions of VLC only open single files, they didn't port the open disc feature.
I got Zidoo Z9X Pro for that use case. Mostly for BD with extras