[mythtv-users] problems with mythtv

[Jared Greenwald]

So, after experimenting around with a few things, I'm no closer to figuring
things out.

I tried a lower quality rip "excellent" vs "prefect" and that didn't change
things.
Then, I quit out of mythfrontend and tried playing the rip directly with
mplayer from a terminal and it worked flawlessly.
Then, I went into the setup and tried messing around with the mplayer
options under the Video settings.  This doesn't seem to have changed a
thing.

I'm totally baffled.  Where are the player settings for playing rip'd dvds?
I assume it was under Video->Playback settings, but changing the player
didn't do anything.  I also tried changing the DVD player from internal to
mplayer, but that didn't seem to have any affect either.

Can anyone even tell me if I'm looking in the right place?

Thanks,
Jared

On 2/23/07, Willy Boyd <willyboyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/23/07, Peter Abplanalp <pta-myth at psaconsultants.com> wrote:
> >
> > ----- "Jared Greenwald" <greenwaldjared at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Err...  That solved the Live TV problem, but not the problems
> > > with ripping/playback.  Of note was that the movie I was
> > > originally experimenting with is my daugher's Cinderella III movie.
> > > The problem I encountered with ripping the iso was with The
> > > Prestige - also note that I couldn't rip a "perfect" transcoded
> > > copy either (the rip timer just starts getting exponentially big).
> >
> > i'm having the same problem with pirates of the caribean II.  the mtd
> > says something like "...but wrote 0 bytes...coincidence...".  i'm not
> > at home at the moment so i don't know the exact message.  i haven't had
> > a chance to mess with it much so i don't know what the issue is but
> > the timer does get very big.  just another data point.
> >
> > i don't think it is an encryption issue as the dvd plays fine.  i'm
> using
> > the myth rpms from at from about a week ag0 or so.
> >
> > --
> > Peter Abplanalp
>
> I'm not sure about these specific titles, but there are new schemes
> that are being used to foil DVD rips, like putting in bad sectors and
> so forth.  Arccos and something else.  Search the list for a
> command-line for dumping these out with vlc.  Supposedly this works
> with anything it can play (which should be basically all movies).
> From what I've read this is the only current native linux solution for
> ripping those kinds of disks.  Sure, not as pretty as using MythDVD,
> but I've seen the same problems with it you are so I gave up on it.
>
> >
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