[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5069: Internal DVD player cannot skip (seek) properly why playing VOB files ripped from DVD

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Mar 30 18:17:08 UTC 2008


On 03/30/2008 09:09 AM, MythTV wrote:
> #5069: Internal DVD player cannot skip (seek) properly why playing VOB files
> ripped from DVD
>
>  The internal DVD player has a problem when trying to play VOB files that
>  have been ripped from DVDs.  When attempting to skip forward or backward
>  while playing a ripped VOB file through MythVideo, the video will freeze
>  and then one will hear strange audio for approximately the length of the
>  skip that was requested (e.g. 5 seconds, 30 seconds, etc).  After that,
>  the video and audio start playing normally at the point where the skip was
>  supposed to jump to.  The "strange audio" sounds like when one seeks
>  through a track on a CD player.
>
>  Skipping forward and backward work correctly when playing the original DVD
>  using the internal player.  The problem only manifests itself when trying
>  to play a VOB file that was ripped from a DVD.  Also note that the problem
>  did not exist in myth 0.20.2.

This sounds a lot like the behavior we get every once in a while when 
playing MPEG-2 files without a seektable.  Perhaps the no-seektable 
skipping is broken, again.

Mike



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