[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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>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] myth DVD via NFS
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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.
>>
>> 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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