[mythtv-users] DVD playback problems with ubuntu 9.10/myth 0.22-fixes

[Matt Beadon]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:

> > I've read that content protection on some discs can cause these types of
> > issues.  Has anyone got their myth system to play >90% of DVDs?  If so
> can
> > you share the recipe or point me in the right direction?  Maybe there are
>
>
>
>  What sort of errors are you encountering?  I've got maybe 2 or 3 discs
> that give me problems under myth and all of those are just menu issues  on
> discs with layers of submenus (TV series and such). Other than those couple
> I haven't had a Disc that wouldn't play in years.
>
>
As others mentioned most of my errors are with the DVD menus.  All the DVDs
I watch are from Netflix and they might differ from the retail versions (the
labels do at least).  They generally start with a black screen, FBI warning,
or studio logos and then crash back to the frontend leaving tons of:
Jan 10 19:55:02 XXXXXX kernel: [197010.865867] end_request: I/O error, dev
sr0, sector 8138376
Messages in my logs.

Then there are a few even weirder ones such as Transformers: revenge of the
fallen.  It started playing straight into the movie (no menus) but was
playing at 1.5x speed (guesstimate) with the audio being similarly
distorted.  Then as an added twist every 5min it would jump to a random
chapter in the movie.

Another weird one was Doctor Who: Season 4: Disc 2 which played with no
audio.  I watched many other discs in this series without issue but this one
wouldn't play audio even after I fiddled with the audio track selections.
This is a new problem I haven't seen before so it might be a result of a
recent update in JYA repo (I updated friday).