[mythtv-users] myth DVD via NFS
Boyd II, Willy
wboyd at fulbright.com
Tue Apr 13 14:36:32 EDT 2004
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>Albert Santoni wrote:
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>>> And in myth setup for DVD, instead of /dev/dvd as the directory, I
>>> used mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /dvd -fs -zoom
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>>> That seemed to work, *but* it's not very usable. The picture is
>>> great, but the sound is about 3-4 seconds fast compared to the
>>> video. This is obviously due to DVD playing over NFS.
>Still I would
>>> think I could improve this and get the 2 in sync. Any ideas on how
>>> to do this?
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>> Maybe try adding a "-cache 8192" to your mplayer flags there... It's
>> worth a shot.
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>> Albert
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>I tried using caching for mplayer, and it definitely helped, but still
>about 1-2 seconds fast. Maybe setting caching with nfs will help too?
> Any other ideas?
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but have you tried using xine?
I've read that it can play dvd's as a mounted filesystem as well.
Something like 'xine /path/to/nfsmounted/dvdfiles/'
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>Jim
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