[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5069: Internal DVD player cannot skip (seek) properly why playing VOB files ripped from DVD

[Stuart Morgan]

On Sunday 30 March 2008 19:17:08 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/30/2008 09:09 AM, MythTV wrote:
> > #5069: Internal DVD player cannot skip (seek) properly why playing VOB
> > files ripped from DVD
> >
> >  The internal DVD player has a problem when trying to play VOB files that
> >  have been ripped from DVDs.  When attempting to skip forward or backward
> >  while playing a ripped VOB file through MythVideo, the video will freeze
> >  and then one will hear strange audio for approximately the length of the
> >  skip that was requested (e.g. 5 seconds, 30 seconds, etc).  After that,
> >  the video and audio start playing normally at the point where the skip
> > was supposed to jump to.  The "strange audio" sounds like when one seeks
> > through a track on a CD player.
> >
> >  Skipping forward and backward work correctly when playing the original
> > DVD using the internal player.  The problem only manifests itself when
> > trying to play a VOB file that was ripped from a DVD.  Also note that the
> > problem did not exist in myth 0.20.2.
>
> This sounds a lot like the behavior we get every once in a while when
> playing MPEG-2 files without a seektable.  Perhaps the no-seektable
> skipping is broken, again.

If we are treating it as a DVD (full DVD rip with ifo files etc, then it 
shouldn't need a seektable). Likewise if it's an ISO it won't. However 
individual vob files require a seektable.
-- 
Stuart Morgan