NMT and External hd-dvd drive

[TylerDurden67]

Hi there

anyone knows how to use an xbox360 external usb Hd-dvd drive with any NMT to read hd-dvd movies?

Since,as far i know, there is no copy protection on Hd-dvd (well wich wasn't cracked),and i tried to read any movie but the format itself isn't recognized (can only browse files)

Someone has done an nmt app to read it like css for dvd?

Thanks you

[peterjcat]

Nobody has done an NMT app. Just because AACS has been cracked doesn't mean it doesn't exist any more, you still need a specific program to decrypt each HD DVD. I think there are Linux tools to decrypt HD DVD, but the NMT doesn't have a full Linux distribution so I imagine it would be quite hard to do. Then you would have to send the demuxed audio/video to the Sigma chip for decoding and I imagine the hooks may not be publicly available? So it would likely be something Syabas would have to do, which they won't because not enough people still use HD DVD...

[chris57]

There's no support for HD-DVD in the Sigma chipset IIRC. Therefore you would have to remux into a container that is accepted which defects the purpose and would be far quicker on a powerful PC.

[TylerDurden67]

ok thanks for replies dudes

i wanted to play my hd-dvd movies directly,but still have to use the xbox360
i got the hd-dvd emulator on xbox360 too ( given by the hddvd team) where you can do an smb share

will see it after christmas,if i have time for that (between two huge diners)