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

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yea I tried this, I think the app versions of VLC only open single files, they didn’t port the open disc feature.

    • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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.