PS3 resume video at last point???

[Jeff Swearingen]

My player is a PS3.

I'm wondering if it has the capability to allow me to watch part of a BR, stop it, power down the machine, then come back later, power it up and start playing where I left off. Is this something the player controls? Is this a disc encoding choice?

[GMan0392]

it's a little annoying, there surely must be a setting for this?

[cathexist]

It looks to be something that was just overlooked...strange as well.

Even the PSP has this feature.

[HDPerfection]

Originally Posted by cathexist

It looks to be something that was just overlooked...strange as well.

Even the PSP has this feature.

I thought mine had done that before but I am a newbie and could be wrong...I may not have powered it down but chose to quit playback for sure.....

[owa]

For whatever reason, neither of the hi-def formats seem to handle this by default. Usually, you have to use some other method, like bookmarks. Lost Season 3 provides that capability though so apparently, it can be incorporated by the titles.

[aphex]

if you don't turn off the ps3 you should be fine. just run folding @ home and help cure cancer.

[cathexist]

Yeah, if you just stop playback you can resume, but if you turn off the PS3 itself...then it will not resume.

[FilmmakingFiasco]

Any title that incorporates any kind of BD-Java will NOT resume on the PS3 if you stop and then start again. It will have to load all over again.

[jorg]

i knwo when playing moveis off hard drive it will pick up from were u are

[cathexist]

Originally Posted by FilmmakingFiasco

Any title that incorporates any kind of BD-Java will NOT resume on the PS3 if you stop and then start again. It will have to load all over again.

That makes sense

[cathexist]

Originally Posted by jorg

i knwo when playing moveis off hard drive it will pick up from were u are

Yes...but even after you turn off the system?

[thunderclap]

This is something that should easily be remedied with a firmware patch, no? I mean, the PS3 has a hard drive and memory and all the other Blu-Ray players have memory... how hard could it be to incorporate a resume function? This something very basic most DVD players have. It's kind of sad an advanced HD player can't do it.

[Chocolatejas]

I hope to see this in an update someday.

[cathexist]

Originally Posted by Chocolatejas

I hope to see this in an update someday.

Ditto

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by FilmmakingFiasco

Any title that incorporates any kind of BD-Java will NOT resume on the PS3 if you stop and then start again. It will have to load all over again.

Not exactly true.

Bookmarking is a feature of BD-J that not all titles use. If you've bookmarked something, that bookmark is saved onto the PS3's HDD or the players memory and then you can recall that bookmark upon power up. Why is it not a standard feature? Probably because most standalone players out there are Profile 1.0 with not enough memory to store a lot of bookmarks and not enough processing power to handle extensive BD-J app.

With the PS3 and with the exception of BD-J titles that does not have bookmarks, you can start at where you left it so long as you don't turn it off.


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[owa]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

Why is it not a standard feature? Probably because most standalone players out there are Profile 1.0 with not enough memory to store a lot of bookmarks and not enough processing power to handle extensive BD-J app.

fuad

Maybe but doesn't explain why there isn't a resume with the HD-A20 (HD DVD), for example. Since neither format seems to accomodate resuming by default, it makes me think there is some other reason for it.

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by owa

Maybe but doesn't explain why there isn't a resume with the HD-A20 (HD DVD), for example. Since neither format seems to accomodate resuming by default, it makes me think there is some other reason for it.

I was discussing BD, not HD DVD. Bookmarking= BD-J specific titles only for all players. Resume play = player dependent. Something I learned from watching an episode of Deep Dive - BD-J episode is that ALL of the BDs I have, which has pop-up menus, are BD-J titles; the pop-up menu is a Java application.

HD DVD has HDi. They don't support resume play (from what I heard) but they also do bookmarking.

My hypothesis on why there is no automatic resume play is that what we know as resume play on DVD is simply bookmarking. On DVD, no application is running while you're watching the movie; the DVD menu button will call up the menu screens and the subtitles/audio buttons are player dependent.

With BDs, pop-up menus are part of a simple application that runs concurrent with the movie; that's not including actual BD-J apps. To resume play, you have to capture the state of the player when you pressed stop, something like suspending a laptop into hibernation. This may require more persistent memory more than the first/second gen BD players allow (PS3 is a league on its own). Bookmarking with BD-J is easy to implement (it doesn't have to capture the player's state) but was just not implemented on the authoring side.


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[dk3dknight]

The reason I think the PS3 only resumes play if you stop then play again,
instead of also being able to resume after turning off, it probably empty
the data out of the cache when it turns off.

Just a thought.

[davidPS3]

Originally Posted by dk3dknight

The reason I think the PS3 only resumes play if you stop then play again,
instead of also being able to resume after turning off, it probably empty
the data out of the cache when it turns off.

Just a thought.

I have hit stop on my remote for the PS3 and it literally turns the movie off. I have to re-start the movie from the beginning and do a chapter search to get back to where I was in the movie. So, I don't even get to the point of turning off the system, if I hit stop vs. pause, I am having to restart from the beginning. Just me though?

[Bourne1]

That is my only beef with the PS3 as a BD player besides that one minor audio codec we don't have.