[mythtv-users] Ripped DVD recordings have skips

[James Oltman]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:01 AM, James Crow <james at ultratans.com> wrote:

> Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>> Watched a video tonight and there were several skips in it, perhaps as
>> many as 5 in the movie.  My daughter said the same thing happened to her on
>> another movie.  She said it is in the recording and not in the playback.  I
>> had a frontend log going and nothing showed up on that.  The skips seem like
>> a 1/2 second missing, more or less.
>>
>> I searched the archives YTD and didn't find anything.
>>
>> Anyone know about this?  I have mythbuntu 8.04 fixes 19878 on an AMD 5400+
>>
>> What log file should I run the next time I have a movie to rip?
>> Is there a file I need to update?  I don't do updates unless I know for
>> sure it will fix a problem as they always seem to break some unrelated
>> feature.
>>
>> Allen
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>>
> I noticed what may be similar on a movie rip this weekend. The movie was
> ripped with DVDHDFab under Wine and then the directory containing the
> VIDEO_TS folder was dumped into my Myth video directory. When watching the
> movie I saw two or three brief periods of black. Less than a second each
> time. It could have been the movie skipping or just a section of black in
> the video. It was not distracting enough for me look in the log files and
> see what happened.
>
> Is this what happened for you?
>
> I am running Mythbuntu 8.10 with Jean-Yves VDPAU repo. I am at 20xxx
> something.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>
What you are witnessing is the result of DRM.  I've had this happen with a
lot of my own movies (read: purchased).  I'd say it has been only recent
movies, but even older ones have had this happen.  The only way I've found
around it is to purchase software (AnyDVD) and let it take care of that DRM
messiness.  I have heard there are ways around it with Linux software, but
it's much more complicated.

Jim
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