[mythtv-users] Internal DVD Player Problems

Greg Grotsky spikeygg at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 20:51:20 UTC 2006


Cool, I'll update to latest SVN tonight and check it out.  If problems
persist I'll submit tickets.  Thanks Stanley!

-Greg


On 12/4/06, stanley kamithi <skamithi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On 12/3/06, Greg Grotsky <spikeygg at gmail.com > wrote:
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> > On 12/1/06, Greg Grotsky <spikeygg at gmail.com > wrote:
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> > > I've had a couple problems using the internal DVD player in myth for
> > > some time.
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> > > 1) Not all but many DVDs get choppy right at a chapter breaks while
> > > watching the movie (such as "The Matrix").  This is just an annoyance
> > > because the sound and video will stutter for about 5 seconds around chapter
> > > breaks but it catches up and continues on.
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> > > 2) I have a button on my remote setup for the JUMPTODVDROOTMENU option
> > > in the keybindings and it works well for about half the movies we watch but
> > > there are some which it doesn't work at all.  On these movies, it's as if
> > > the button is not programmed.  On very few movies (such as "Madagascar")
> > > when I hit the button I have configured for JUMPTODVDROOTMENU it actually
> > > exits the player and returns back to the optical menu. :(
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> > > 3) Also, when using the left/right arrow keys to skip around in the
> > > movie occasionally it will spontaneously jump back to the beginning of the
> > > movie.  I've noticed it happens very often while skipping backward as fast
> > > as possible within about 10 quick remote keypresses the stream starts again
> > > at the beginning.  This sucks if this happens while watching a movie, as you
> > > might imagine.
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> > > 4) On a few DVDs (such as "About A Boy"), selecting the "Play Movie"
> > > option from the DVD's root menu causes the player to crash back to the
> > > optical disks menu.  The only way to play these types of movies is to use
> > > the "Select a scene" function in the menu.
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> the madagscar dvd issue is a known problem that i am working on. (#2542)
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> upgrade to the latest svn revision and test thoroughly. i have made some
> changes to improve rew/ffw.  (3) should be fixed now. if any of the other
> problems persist after the upgrade  read the ticket howto,  open a ticket
> and  assign it to me.
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