[mythtv-users] MythTV and the "average" user...

[James Orr]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> >> 5) DVD playback - between the Arccos protected discs, and discs that
> >> dont play for various other reason (Just last night I ran into a DVD
> >> that won't play becaue "libdvdnav: RANDOM or SHUFFLE titles are NOT
> >
> > What was it?
> >
> > I've never seen a disk not play in Linux due to anything but a faulty
> > disk or extra copy protection and I have played/ripped a LOT of stuff.
> > Both of those are fairly unusual occurences and don't seem to occur
> > with any greater frequency than bad disks in general.
>
> It was Surfs Up. And let me correct myself. When I said it didn't
> play, I wasn't entirely accurate. If you let it play through all of
> the previews, it would work fine. But if you tried to skip past them
> in order to get to the main menu, it would drop you back to the myth
> menu. I was sure it was a Arccos style copy protection mechanism until
> I ripped it with myth and it ripped fine (no ddrescue necessary). The
> ripped ISO exhibits the same problem while skipping. Checked the logs
> and saw the libdvdnav error
>
>
I see a lot of problems playing DVDs with MythDVD, often the disc plays fine
for most of it, but will either fail to play a special feature or just dump
me out at a specific time.  It doesn't happen on every disc, not even on
most of them, but enough to be annoying.

I usually just use my playstation 3 for playing DVDs and only use MythDVD
for my region 2/PAL DVDs.
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