[mythtv-users] Internal DVD Player Problems

Jon Boehm boehm100 at comcast.net
Fri Jun 8 19:20:15 UTC 2007


Did you ever find the root cause for the choppy video and stutter around the
chapter breaks?  I've been noticing this recently, too.

Thanks,
Jon


-----Original Message-----
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.
> > >
> > > 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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