[mythtv-users] DVD playback of commercial DVDs

[Anthony Giggins]

> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Jason Chambers
> <lists at purplish-monkey.com>wrote:
>
>> On 18/04/2010 08:58, Johannes Köster wrote:
>> > DVD playback with the current 0.23-fixes branch seems to be broken.
>> When
>> > playing a DVD with menus, Mythtv in some cases fails to display the
>> menu
>> > correctly (parts are missing on commercial DVDs). Also after selecting
>> a
>> > menu item, the playback hangs either infinitly or Mythtv says that
>> > playback failed due to too many dropped frames. Can someone confirm
>> this
>> > behaviour? The DVDs are ok because the could be played before on the
>> > same system with an version of 0.23-fixes.
>>
>> I noticed this problem last night but it only seems to affect some DVDs,
>> whilst others play fine and I haven't been able to detect any obvious
>> pattern.
>>
>> I get loads (i.e. ~2500 in 30 seconds) of these messages whilst it
>> hangs:
>>
>> 2010-04-17 23:52:10.128 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
>> 2010-04-17 23:52:10.205 [mpeg2video @ 0x7fb470c83300]get_buffer() failed
>> (stride changed)
>>
>> So far I've traced it to changset [24115] (for #8326).  If I back out
>> this change I can successfully play the DVDs in the latest 0.23-fixes
>> (r24177).
>>
>> I was just going to test it on another frontend first to confirm it
>> wasn't something unique to my machine but as I don't seem to be the only
>> one noticing this I'll update the bug with my logs.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>
> I have all these same problems and I am using myht 0.21 on Mythbuntu 8.04
> stable.
>
> Allen

There was a big improvement with dvd playback and menus between 0.21 &
0.22, for iso's anyway.

Cheers,

Anthony