[mythtv-users] Announce: 0.21-fixes with vdpau ubuntu repository

[Dave Johansen]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:56 AM, German Rodriguez <callmegar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've been using Jean-Yves repository with Jaunty for more than a month now,
>>> started using the ubuntu 8 packages on the Jaunty Alpha 4 and VDPAU has been
>>> working great, the nvidia driver and mplayer packages were broken for a
>>> while due to dependencies on KDE libraries no longer present on Jaunty, but
>>> once JYA compiled in Jaunty the packages started working again, in the mean
>>> time I resorted to doing a manual install on the nvidia-driver and regarding
>>> mplayer, I don't use it anyway, the internal player on mythtv can handle
>>> everything you throw at it, with the exception of the new high definition
>>> audio formats (DTS-HD).
>>
>> Just for the record, DVD playback with the internal player currently
>> freezes up during the FBI Warning and such on quite a few DVDs, so
>> most people have to restort to using an external player (like mplayer)
>> to watch DVDs with the current 0.21 build.
>>
>> But I have also been using Jean-Yves Jaunty packages for a while now
>> and other than a few minor issues that have workarounds, they have
>> been working GREAT.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> I wonder if those DVD playback issues are the result of "copy
> protection" (read "intentionally broken products") such as Sony
> ARccOS.  Those very often involve intentionally corrupted sectors very
> early in the disk, which could explain lockups at the FBI warning.
>
> Tom

Apparently the issue has been fixed in trunk (
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5630 ), so that doesn't seem to be
the case.

Dave