[mythtv-users] Ticket 11377 was: Region free DVD player?

[Richard Hulme]

On 05/04/14 06:12, faginbagin wrote:
> On 4/3/2014 3:13 PM, Richard Hulme wrote:
> <snip>
>> Hi Helen,
>>
>> Sorry for not seeing this thread earlier.  I've been up to my ears in work recently.
>>
>> I don't have an awful lot to add but it's definitely not a DVD problem.
>>
>> I submitted a test file to NVidia and, as I wrote in the ticket, they confirmed they could reproduce it with MythTV but not with mplayer.  I don't know whether that means that MythTV is doing something wrong that mplayer is doing right, or maybe MythTV is using some feature of VDPAU that mplayer isn't.  I don't really know anything about the video decoding process.
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>> I've just sent another email to NVidia to ask if they have any further information.  I'm not holding my breath but since they should have a fair bit of expertise in this area, I'm hoping they may be able to give some pointers (e.g. the affected videos happen to use some special feature of MPEG2 that most other don't).
>>
>> If I get a reply, I'll report back here.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard.
>
> I appreciate you following up with NVidia as well as the info in the ticket and email archives. Changing playback profiles has allowed us to enjoy the box set while I hunt for a "real" solution.

Ok, I got a reply back from NVidia:

"This is still in our queue to investigate, but we haven't had time to 
dig into it, yet.  Hopefully we'll be able to take a look soon."

Since I reported the problem to them 15 months ago, it's unfortunately 
obviously not a high-priority issue.  That doesn't mean, of course, that 
there's no chance of them looking into it but a pro-active comparison of 
mplayer and MythTV would presumably bring results sooner (not that I'm 
volunteering - it's not that I'm not interested but I just don't have 
the time at the moment).

Regards,

Richard.