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

[Paul Gardiner]

Mark Jenks wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> What about playing them with "xine -pfhq /dev/sr0"
> 
> I ended up going away from the internal player for reasons like this.

"xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd:/" seems to work. I prefer the Internal
player because of consistency of interface with recording playback,
but this gives me a good work around for these particular DVDs.

Thanks,
	Paul.