Panasonic DMP-BD35 *will* play backed-up Blu-ray discs

[mbeezie]

I just wanted to start a thread on this because everywhere I've been reading (including, IIRC, this forum) I had read that this player refuses to play backed up BDs. I knew I was receiving it from my spouse for christmas and it got me a bit worried as my usual process is to burn a copy and stowe the real one in my chest.

Today was my first go at making a Blu-ray backup (just got an LG drive yesterday) and while I couldn't shrink Iron Man enough (without compression) to fit on a BD-R, I was able to make a perfect movie-only backup of WALL-E which plays flawlessly on my Panasonic DMP-BD35 standalone player.

I know there was a firmware update for this player earlier this month, and I applied that (my player is now at 1.6...shipped with 1.4) so maybe that has something to do with it.

The BMDV folder outputted by tsmuxer was burned on my Mac with Roxio Toast, not with ImgBurn.

[Hawk]

I don't know where you read that. All 3 blu-ray players of mine plays backed up blu-ray fine. Are you sure it is not about something else?
Including PS3 as well. (160 Gb Limited Model)

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

The discussion concerning playback issues with the BD-35 and BD-55 players apparently had to do with the BD-R/BD-RE discs containing BD-J.

References:

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1228318&postcount=67
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1228339&postcount=68
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1228349&postcount=69

It ended up having a thread of its own somewhere in the Doom9 forums as well but I have no idea where it went or the title. The point here is that the problematic discs apparently were only discs containing BD-J.

[mbeezie]

I don't know where you read that. All 3 blu-ray players of mine plays backed up blu-ray fine. Are you sure it is not about something else?
Including PS3 as well. (160 Gb Limited Model)

Not sure what you're talking about.

The discussion concerning playback issues with the BD-35 and BD-55 players apparently had to do with the BD-R/BD-RE discs containing BD-J.

References:

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1228318&postcount=67
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1228339&postcount=68
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1228349&postcount=69

It ended up having a thread of its own somewhere in the Doom9 forums as well but I have no idea where it went or the title. The point here is that the problematic discs apparently were only discs containing BD-J.

Interesting, thanks for that. I'll have to read more about BD-J.

[kento]

Yes indeed , this is going to be a big problem.
And I don't think Panasonic will do somethong to "correct this problem".
BR-RE Dl with BD-J play fine on Sony's , what a joke :/

[mbeezie]

I'm still unclear as to what the problem is.

Discs with BD-Java can't be backed up and played on this player? Is that the issue?

How do you know which discs contain BD-J? I did a movie-only backup of WALL-E and it played fine on the Panasonic. Does this title have BD-J? Or is that all eliminated when going to movie-only? (I assume it's the menus that are java).

[JayDox]

If I make backups of my BD's containing BD-J and let AnyDVD HD remove the regioncode and fix the java signatures, those discs burned on a BD-R won't play in a Panasonic BD-35/BD-55.
The player starts to play the disc, showing 00:00:00 and stops. Thats all.
Using AnyDVD HD to backup those BD-J discs without removing the regioncode, the disc plays fine.
Then I replaced the jar files containing the slysoft java class with the original files from the original Blu-ray disc and replaced AnyDVD's discroot.app.cert from a BD backup where the regioncode was not removed the disc also worked fine.

I read in another forum of a guy who called the Panasonic hotline and they said, that this is not a problem but a feature of the new player generation of Panasonic. :bang:

[JayDox]

I'm still unclear as to what the problem is.

Discs with BD-Java can't be backed up and played on this player? Is that the issue?

How do you know which discs contain BD-J?
Just take a look at the discs directory. If you find a folder called "jar" with som jar files included, the disc uses BD-J.

I did a movie-only backup of WALL-E and it played fine on the Panasonic. Does this title have BD-J? Or is that all eliminated when going to movie-only? (I assume it's the menus that are java).
When you do a movie only remux BD-J is gone and the disc plays perfectly on the BD35. But if you want to make a 1:1 backup of your BD it won't play. I have some Region A discs and can't make full backups anymore to play them on the Panasonic player. :mad:

[fast eddie]

So it appears the best way to go is to use the DEFAULT settings in AnyDVD HD associated with a Blu-ray source disk.

Also, in the near future I believe you are going to see much more restructions on Blu-ray players on which type of media the player will actually play. Such as BD-5, BD-9, BD-R, BD-RE.

Profile 2.0 players coming out 2nd and 3rd quarter of this year the ones with the internet connection are going to have much more control over you, as far as what you can and cannot do.

I am sure Sony, MPAA, and special interest groups are backing this new firmware copy protection.

:agree:

[Adbear]

You can already buy Blu-ray players with internet connections and that already do profile 2.0 (BD-Live) so I'm not sure what you're referring to

[rotty1]

Didnt know about the BD-J problem with this player, VC-1 ripped discs are my problem with it. They wont play

[mario62]

rotty1, have a look there:
http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=25347