[mythtv-users] MythTV DVD Problems

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM, John Burns <john at burnshome.com> wrote:

>  I've got my MythTV set to use the Internal player for DVDs. I have a
> bunch of DVDs out on a drive so I can play them from there. Most work fine,
> but I'm having a few problems and I'm not sure if it's with specific DVDs
> or what…
>
> 1. Audio not playing in Atonement
>
>         - The video loads fine and starts playing but no audio plays. I
> ripped it using an external ripping software (DVDFab Platinum) as I have
> with all my other discs and I only pulled the main movie and the audio
> channel. I ripped the AC-3/5.1 channel when ripping the DVD and I checked
> to make sure that's still on there. The ISO loads fine on my Windows XP
> box and plays with audio in PowerDVD. Is there a package I need to install
> for extra audio support or is there something wrong in Myth?
>
> 2. Menus not loading correctly in multiple DVDs (Gladiator and 300 as
> examples)
>
>         - When I start the DVD it plays through the menus as if they're
> video tracks without ever giving a selection tool to change the menu
> options. Is there a setting for this or what? If I fast forward I can skip
> through the menus but it goes through all of them including foreign language titles,
> etc. until it gets to the actual movie. This is more of a nuisance than a
> real problem but I figured someone may have a solution.
>
Open tickets at svn.mythtv.org for each DVD that exhibits a problem with the
details of the DVD.  The MythDVD maintainer is very good about checking out
movies from his personal Netflix queue that exhibit problems to work to fix
them.

>  3. I can't seem to get a keystroke working from my keyboard that skips by
> chapter marker. I can skip by time segments but those don't always meet up
> with the chapter markers. Is there a keystroke to skip by the actual chapter
> markers on the DVD?
>
Should be the same keys that do channel up/down.

Kevin
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