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Blu-Ray Player for USB Drive Attached or Network to Play Music and Video MKV Files?

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Steve Bruzonsky

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My Kaleidescape disc vault is so full that some music/concert blu rays and DVDs that I’ve watched I have unloaded from the vault to make room for others. Recently I got the urge to rip Dolby Atmos & Auro-3D blu rays and then play then hopefully via my network (64TB Western Digital PR4100) network server or via an SSD USB drive plugged into a blu ray player. Keep in mind very very few of these Dolby Atmos or Auro 3D music discs are in the Kaleidescape online store, as of course I'd rather purchase them in the store and have them in my Kaleidescape Terra Server as opposed to the disc vault or ripping them.

Thanks to help at the Quadraphonic Quad forum, I was instructed how to easily rip Dolby Atmos music/video blu rays to mkv files, using MakeMKV and then MKVToolNix if I want to break up the larger MKV file into music tracks.

But now the trick is to have a player to play these MKV files without undue hassle.

My Pioneer Elite UDP-LX500 4k blu-ray player plays MKV files via an attached USB drive, but will not play the files via network as I’ve tried. But it’s a bit choppy at times playing Dolby Atmos MKV files, and more problematic playing Auro-3D MKV files.

My Oppo 103D is fantastic at playing MKV files without any hitches both via network and attached USB. EXCEPT – for Dolby Atmos MKV files, it only sends them decoded as multi-channel without the height channel information. I can’t figure any way around this – which rules out the Oppo 103D player for this. I do not know whether the Oppo 203/205 4k blu ray players have this same limitation. Can anyone tell me?

I tried a Nvidia Shield Pro from Amazon and quickly returned it. My demo showed that it converted uncompressed Dolby Atmos to compressed Dolby Digital Plus.

Does anyone know or have experience if any of the newer 4k or blu ray players can reliably play MKV files in uncompressed Dolby Atmos (and Auro-3D) whether via network or via attached USB SSD drive? My understanding is that a blu ray player is much faster accessing files over the network that say a Dune HD or NVidia Shield. I tried the NVIdia Shield and found that out and too many quirks to use it and returned it to Amazon. The Oppo 103 is great playing files over the network but will only play Dolby True HD 5.1/7.1 no height channels.


Thanks.
 
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The Shield is the best option, and seemingly the most compatible with bitstreaming the most codecs without converting them and retaining all immersive audio data. what app were you using to playback? How was the audio configured?
 
My friend Ash Sharma also has a Kaleidescape system and he uses Dune HD Pro Vision 4k Solo HD Media Players in his house in addition to Kaleidescape. He verified how excellent it works with ripped blu rays and DVDs. I ordered this from Wal-Mart online as they still have this model which is the best for my purpose. YEA! I can always attach a SSD USB drive vs network and see how I like it.
 
Steve Bruzonsky said:
My friend Ash Sharma also has a Kaleidescape system and he uses Dune HD Pro Vision 4k Solo HD Media Players in his house in addition to Kaleidescape. He verified how excellent it works with ripped blu rays and DVDs. I ordered this from Wal-Mart online as they still have this model which is the best for my purpose. YEA! I can always attach a SSD USB drive vs network and see how I like it.
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The 4K Solo has a bay where you can simply insert a regular hard drive all the way to 22TB (or more) and it works great for all media - no need for a SSD
 
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