[mythtv-users] MythTV does not play DVD's

[Mike Perkins]

On 18/10/15 11:16, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 17/10/15 19:12, Forum wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to play DVD's, but MythTV does sometimes not play them, but VLC Media Player is able to
>> play them.
>>
>> My configuration settings are:
>> / Media / Videos / Player Options:
>> Standard Player: Internal
>> DVD Player: Internal
>> DVD-Drive: default
>> Alternative Player: <not checked>
>>
>> When I try to play a DVD, MythTV says first "please wait", then screen gehts dark for some seconds
>> and then returns to DVD-menu, but does not play DVD.
>>
>> I've tried to enable "Alternative Player" and inserted `vlc file://%s vlc://quit` in Alternative
>> Player, as it is recommended in https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VLC , but DVD is still unable to view.
>>
>> Which configuration settings should be used to view DVD's? Again: VLC is able to play them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> DM
>>
>
> DVD's play fine here on master not sure about 0.27 though.
>
> If you are using storage groups the alternate player probably wont work since no other players
> understand the myth:// urls. I say probably because I seem to recall a patch that would make them
> work on combined BE/FE's but not sure if it was ever applied to 0.27. If it's a separate FE then
> alternative players most definitely wont work with storage groups.
>
> Also IIRC if you are using storage groups and using separate BE/FEs it's the backend that needs the
> support for encrypted DVD's not the frontend.
>
To clarify that last point, is that still true even when the DVD is mounted on a remote FE? Does 
that mean everything from that DVD has to get sent to the MBE, decoded, and then sent back again for 
display?

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Mike Perkins