Hi all,
I have placed several posts on this forum trying to get some answers about DVD ISO Playback through AppleTV but as yet nobody has provided any answers.
This evening I tried another round of tests using a movie which doesn’t play and causes AppleTV to crash.
The movie in question is “House Of Wax” region 2.
I originally used DVD Decrypter to create a copy protection free ISO image file. This was the starting point. Any which way I tried, using pretty much all of the nitoTV settings it crashed AppleTV. The original ISO I created was a DVD clone (i.e. it contained menus, special features etc). I then read an article which suggested that DVDFab was the best tool to use as it removes ALL the latest copy protection mechanisms, so I created another ISO using DVDFab, this time the ISO was just the movie (i.e. no menus or special features). This also crashed AppleTV 
I then ripped the DVD, again with DVDFab, into a folder this time instead of an ISO file. This also crashed AppleTV!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!
I am rapidly loosing my patience with all of this, I just want something that works. ALL of my ISO’s that I have ripped work flawlessly under mPlayer for windows and some do play using nitoTV (for example, Poseidon, Aliens - No problems at all) so I don’t think it’s my ISO’s
I can’t for the life of me find a detailed log of why mPlayer is failing despite having logging turned on… what’s up with that?
The best I can provide is this crash report which I got from the file CrashReporter.log.
Host Name: AppleTV
Date/Time: 2009-01-07 21:27:56.684 +0000
OS Version: 10.4.7 (Build 8N5722)
Report Version: 4
Command: Finder
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Parent: WindowServer [78]
Version: 2.3 (2.3)
Build Version: 2
Project Name: Riptide2
Source Version: 4260000
PID: 96
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Symbol not found: _DVDIsPlaying
Referenced from: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/PlugIns/nitoTV.frappliance/Contents/MacOS/nitoTV2
Expected in: dynamic lookup
Host Name: AppleTV
Date/Time: 2009-01-07 22:22:54.815 +0000
OS Version: 10.4.7 (Build 8N5722)
Report Version: 4
Command: Finder
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Parent: WindowServer [96]
Version: 2.3 (2.3)
Build Version: 2
Project Name: Riptide2
Source Version: 4260000
PID: 203
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000004
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90ac36b6 class_initialize + 93
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90ac34ae _class_lookupMethodAndLoadCache + 86
2 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90ac3426 objc_msgSend + 86
3 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e4431c3 -[BRMenuController(Deprecated) _itemSelected:] + 118
4 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90ac6cb6 objc_msgSendv + 54
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x92528a48 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 982
6 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e48e768 -[BRInvocationSelectionHandler handleSelectionForControl:] + 124
7 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e3d3d5e -[BRListControl brEventAction:] + 147
8 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e3d3a07 -[BRControl brEventAction:] + 58
9 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e45ab57 -[BRController brEventAction:] + 757
10 …ance.Sapphire.CompatClasses 0x08a5cde9 -[SapphireMediaMenuController brEventAction:] + 235
11 …frontrow.appliance.Sapphire 0x0a48cd75 -[SapphireBrowser brEventAction:] + 197
12 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e3d3a07 -[BRControl brEventAction:] + 58
13 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e3d4f04 -[BRControllerStack brEventAction:] + 57
14 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e3d3a07 -[BRControl brEventAction:] + 58
15 com.apple.frontrow 0x0041b231 0x1000 + 4301361
16 …le.frontrow.backrowhardware 0x9e5cb760 -[BREventManager(EventHandling) _handler] + 532
17 …le.frontrow.backrowhardware 0x9e5cae7e _handler + 33
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x908bf215 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1213
19 com.apple.frontrow.backrow 0x9e3b827d -[BRAppManager run] + 1464
20 com.apple.frontrow 0x00005c79 0x1000 + 19577
21 com.apple.frontrow 0x00468596 0x1000 + 4617622
22 com.apple.frontrow 0x004684bd 0x1000 + 4617405
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90009eb7 mach_msg_trap + 7
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x908bf536 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 2014
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x908d1e2b CFRunLoopRun + 60
3 …le.frontrow.backrowhardware 0x9e5cdabb -[BRDisplayManagerCore(DisplayNotificationsPrivate) _windowServerCallbackHandler] + 323
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x924f22c8 forkThreadForFunction + 123
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900243e7 _pthread_body + 84
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024a87 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 7
1 com.apple.frontrow.appletv 0x9e2e65a2 -[ATVHardwareUtility(Private) _changeLEDThreadLoop] + 140
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x924f22c8 forkThreadForFunction + 123
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900243e7 _pthread_body + 84
Please admins…can you take a look at this and also my other recent posts as there is definitely some sort of issue here.
I want to be able to play back my DVD collection from ISO’s and not be forced to rip them to divx, surely that’s not too much to ask and it is purely why I purchased ATVFlash
Kind Regards,
Paul.
