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Author Topic: Here...Play This JPEG Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-19-2019 09:04 AM                        I would be happy enough if it worked only with unencrypted DVDs and Blu-Rays. The home-made ones that show up for "film" festivals and rentals are usually the most problematic. If there were a dead-simple way to make these into DCPs, that would be good news for everyone.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-19-2019 09:55 AM                     Its a lot less work to just play it back from a computer via the DVI input. You can use any photo processing program to do it. Mark  |  IP: Logged Carl Hetherington Film Handler Posts: 93 From: York, North Yorkshire, England Registered: Jul 2012 posted 11-19-2019 01:27 PM                        quote: Scott Norwood I would be happy enough if it worked only with unencrypted DVDs and Blu-Rays. The home-made ones that show up for "film" festivals and rentals are usually the most problematic. If there were a dead-simple way to make these into DCPs, that would be good news for everyone. This is pretty much exactly how DCP-o-matic started out (hence it's early name DVD-o-matic). You could put a DVD in the drive and press a button and ... something would go wrong. It turns out that writing software for ripping DVD/Blu-Ray is an art all of its own (before you even get onto encryption, unskippable trailers, subtitle and audio track selection, DTS decoding, yada yada yada...)  |  IP: Logged Jesse Crooks Film Handler Posts: 22 From: Doylestown, PA, United States Registered: Mar 2016 posted 11-19-2019 02:25 PM                    quote: Marcel Birgelen I guess once alternative content becomes more of a dominant thing in average cinema operations, those features will eventually materialize. In that case, your playback machine will become more of a central show-controller than just a DCP playback machine. I use the servers for every Blu-ray show. I run a playlist that automates the transition and runs a DCP slide of our theater logo before switching to the Blu-ray. Adjust the cue volume after testing the disc, and all you have to do when it’s time to run the show is press play. I also use the Blu-ray player to run JPG slides for overtures, intermissions, and entr’actes for our auditoriums that don’t have a screen curtain. I build a playlist that switches from DCP to the Blu-ray player for just picture (ex., when there’s an overture without a title card) or picture and sound (ex., when having to add an intermission between acts). In the case of overtures and entr’actes, using DCP-O-Matic isn’t an option because you need the audio from the feature. Not as good as a curtain, but better than showing a naked screen.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-19-2019 04:03 PM                     Jesse - what Bluray player do you use? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Jesse Crooks Film Handler Posts: 22 From: Doylestown, PA, United States Registered: Mar 2016 posted 11-27-2019 12:20 AM                    Carsten, We use Oppo Blu-ray players. I believe they’re mostly BDP-103s, with the exception of one of a different model that we bought to have in reserve when they ceased production.  |  IP: Logged

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