[mythtv-users] My Lost series 1 DVDs (recent birthday present) wont play. Disaster!

[Mark Jenks]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> Rafael Moslin wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried Kaffeine (Xine) or Mplayer based player?
>
> Haven't yet. I've read that they work ok SHUFFLE and RANDOM titles,
> but I was hoping to stick with Internal if possible.
>
>> Assuming that it does not work in them or the MythTV Internal player then
>> as a thought how about adding your /mnt/dvdrom or /media/dvdrom (whatever
>> your distro does) as a video source in MythVideo and playing the VOB's
>> directly as a nasty kludge?!
>
> Pulling the VOBs off the DVD with DVDDecrypter and playing them with
> Internal under MythVideo works fine. I can't seem to get anywhere
> adding /mnt/dvdrom or /media/dvdrom as a video source. I'm using
> Minimyth and I'm not sure how to handle mounting dvd under that.
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> Cheers,
>        Paul.
>

What about playing them with "xine -pfhq /dev/sr0"

I ended up going away from the internal player for reasons like this.

-Mark