[ydl-gen] HD-DVD on YDL

[David Seikel]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:43:10 -0800 (PST) Michael Torres
<mykal_t45 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey guys, has anyone tried this yet? So, after finally installing
> MPlayer, I had a video that I wanted to check out on HD-DVD, Pirates,
> actually. Well, I popped it into the PS3, then in Nautilus noticed
> that the drive was mounted. So, I went to the video_ts, and opened
> some of the files. It actually worked! I was able to play it from the
> DVD on MPlayer. Well, it needed tweaking because since it was HD-DVD
> the buffer rate was slow, so the video was slow, because it said
> there are too many video frames in the buffer. So, then I right
> clicked and copied it to my Desktop folder. And, it copied it.
> Shouldn't it be harder than that? When I ran it from the file and not
> the DVD it was still slow, so it seems to be a processing
> problem(Probably). On a side note, when a Blu-ray disc is inserted,
> it doesn't mount it, but it does say unable to mount, and it lists
> the movie. So, at least something is getting read. I think there are
> so many possibilities with this, but I don't know where t o begin. I
> just wanted to get this out there. It would be funny if it was easy
> to read and play HD-DVDs with our Blu-ray PS3 with YDL. I am thinking
> about posting a video showing it, but I am about to get pretty busy
> at work. Take it easy guys.

This sounds too good to be true.  Various people I have mentioned this
to seem to think it's not possible.  Can someone else try this and
confirm it?