[mythtv-users] [Fwd: Mythvideo plays .iso poorly]

[Steve Hodge]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:37 PM, <paul10 at planar.id.au> wrote:

> I'm running trunk, and I've started ripping my DVDs for playback in Myth -
> the new 0.22 UI looks to provide a really nice way of navigating the
> covers.  Also, I bought an Nvidia 8400GS the other day, and shifted to
> using VDPAU.  My frontend is a Celeron mobile 1.5GHz, so prior to the
> VDPAU move, I pretty much didn't have enough horsepower to play back
> ripped DVDs.
>
> I've chosen to rip all the DVDs as .ISO - it seemed to me I might damage
> the originals some day and want to burn them again.  However, I'm getting
> some playback problems with mythvideo and the internal player.  I prefer
> the internal player because the key bindings are the same as core myth.  I
> haven't spent a huge amount of time diagnosing this, but I'm interested in
> whether:
>  - mythvideo and .iso just isn't a good idea right now
>  - these are problems that are specific to trunk - so I should just wait
> for them to get fixed sometime before 0.22 releases
>  - I've found some new and unique errors (maybe I'm the only person using
> .isos), and I should spend some time diagnosing them and logging defects.
>
> I'm running 0.21 and use internal for isos. I don't watch a lot of DVDs but
I rip the ones I do watch - probably about 10-12. I haven't had major
problems with any of them - just menu glitches and the odd playback pause.

Regards,
Steve
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