Hi Forum! as i know, dvd isnt available on any of the Test/Debug PS2 units. Is there any way around this? A firmware upgrade, any workaround with ulaunchelf?? I'd love to be able to watch 4:3 dvds on my PVM, instead of having them upscaled to 1080p on a 16:9 display. Let me know what you guys know, i'd love for this to happen.
I'd say the most cheapest and practical way would be getting Hot Dollar special $9.99 DVD player. Now problem solved!
The DEX will never be able to normally play DVD Video Discs because its MECHACON has DVD Video playback disabled. There is no firmware update because this console uses ROM for storing all firmware. Somebody once got it to play DVD video discs, but that probably caused it to deem the disc as a PlayStation 2 DVD instead. I don't remember if it was @l_oliveira or @krHACKen. It was only possible because he used a decrypted DVD player (DEX will refuse to decrypt a DVD player) and master-disc-patched the DVD Video Disc. That being said, you will probably have an easier time with either a CEX PlayStation 2, a DVD player or with even your PC (if it has a DVD-ROM drive). If the stretching of 4:3 videos to your screen's aspect ratio bothers you, have you tried changing the aspect ratio option of the screen to 4:3?
Awesome reply as to be expected from the awesome people on this forum. tl;dr it's not possible haha, cheers sp!!!
DVD videos are mpeg 2 video, so you might be able to crack vob files, seperate them into m2v and wav, and recompile them as pss files, along with making a simple menu and creating the ps2 elf file to boot, but what do I know.
If he wants to rip and play DVDs, he could RIP the discs into a format supported by SMS and play them with SMS. There is no need to deal with the proprietary PSS format and coding.
all that trouble; it just wouldn't be worth it. A simple solution is always best, here's hoping that we can do this one day! I remember a while back i posted about PS1 games not playing properly on the PS2 debug consoles, and some genius made a program that boots from ulaunchelf, that allows ps1 games to work properly. "PS1VModeNeg.elf" hopefully something similar happens with this issue!
http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/pal-test-ps2-60hz-ntsc-ps1-help.47632/ That was the thread!! One of my favourite on the site, and i just realised it was you @sp193 haha! you were the genius whom fixed the ps1 problem!!
Thanks. But unlike that problem, the inability to read DVD video discs is a hardware limitation. That is why there will be no software fix for this.
