It's copy protection. He needs to install some files on his remote frontends.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Sunday 12 April 2009 12:30:24 Misty P wrote:<br>
> I'm trying to rip some of my DVDs using mythTV. I put the disc in the myth<br>
> frontend, I go to the optical discs menu, and I select rip, select what I<br>
> want and a few minutes later I have a hot steaming ISO in the videos<br>
> directory.<br>
><br>
> So far so good. If I then play that ISO on that frontend, everything looks<br>
> and works great. But the problem is that NO other front end can play that<br>
> file!<br>
> If I go to either of my other front ends, I get extreme video corruption<br>
> when playing back the file. (example:<br>
> <a href="http://www.pinballmafia.net/temp/myth_dvd.png" target="_blank">www.pinballmafia.net/temp/myth_dvd.png</a> )<br>
><br>
> I also tried copying the ISO file to a windows machine, extracting the VOBs<br>
> out of it, and playing those. Same result -- extreme video corruption.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> What gives? What am I doing wrong here? (I've tried this on multiple DVDs<br>
> with the same results, for what it's worth.) I'm stumped because the front<br>
> end that created the ISO can play it fine, just none of my other front<br>
> ends.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance!<br>
<br>
</div>Obviously the F/E that created the rip is playing it back locally.<br>
<br>
Are the other frontends playing it over a network? Is it possible that your<br>
network can't handle the load for some reason?<br>
<br>
In other words, look into what is different in the setup of the failing F/Es<br>
and the one that works. Try copying the file to a local drive on the<br>
non-working F/Es (assuming they have one).<br>
<br>
Can the "goofy" file be played by Xine or some other standalone app?<br>
<br>
If anything can play the file OK I'd guess the file is OK, and you need to<br>
look at whatever other differences might exist in the playback setups.<br>
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