[mythtv-users] A different issue playing DVDs after upgrading to 0.21

[Chris Purves]

On March 24, 2008 07:25:01 pm Dale E. Martin wrote:
> I'm running on Debian from the debian-multimedia packages.  I have
> libmyth-0.21 version 0.21-0.6etch1, which has the changelog:
>       o 03_changeset_16483.patch Fixes DVD menu handling problem.
>
> Here's what's happening...  Some DVDs play fine.  Shrek 2 plays fine for
> example.  But we have "Flight of the Conchords" from Netflix and it won't
> play correctly.  We watched the first 3 episodes before upgrading, and now
> those episodes won't play any more after upgrading.
>
> The DVD menu plays fine, I can pick an episode, and then everything just
> sits there.  The cpu load goes through the roof, there are lots of
> "prebuffering pause" messages, and then it just sits there with the DVD
> menu showing on the screen.  If I click "next chapter" it will show the
> first frame of the next chapter and then sit there pegging the CPU more.  I
> can also skip forward 10 seconds and it just shows a single frame.  One
> thing I have noticed is if I play the preview for the first episode, it
> plays it really fast with no sound and after that one episode will play.
> It's really weird.
>
> Details: the system is running Debian etch, kernel 2.6.18, and the
> debian-multimedia packages.  The audio is set on "ALSA:default" for both
> the output and mixer.  The hardware is an Athlon XP 1600+ with an NVidia
> MX400 card driving TV out (640x480), and the machine is a dedicated
> front-end.  I have the playback profile on "CPU--" for the moment, although
> it seems to work OK on "normal" for other things.
>

Try the latest releases:

mythtv-common 0.21-0.9
mythvideo 0.21-0.7

I had similar problems and they were resolved by the above upgrade.

-- 
Chris Purves

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