[mythtv-users] MythVideo using Internal player

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Thu Nov 18 14:27:02 UTC 2004


James Pifer wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 23:16, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>James Pifer wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:29, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>>>On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:05, James Pifer wrote:
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>>>>>Wondering if anyone has experienced this. I used vobcopy to rip a
>>>>>home video DVD to a single vob file. If I try to play this using
>>>>>mythvideo using the Internal player the audio and video play very
>>>>>quickly, like the chipmunks are doing the voice. If I play it with
>>>>>mplayer it plays fine.
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>>>>>I prefer using the Internal player. Is there anything I can do to
>>>>>adjust the mpeg so the Internal player is happy with it? I also tried
>>>>>using avidemux2 to chop up the vob file, re-saving the sections as
>>>>>DVD PS, but I get the exact same results.
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>>Here's an interesting note.  I was playing around trying to get AC3 
>>passthrough to work with my soundcard and found that if I played the VOB 
>>file with OSS emulation it played fast like in the Myth Internal Player 
>>but if I played it with the ALSA output device, it worked fine.
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>>Are you using an ALSA output device in Myth, not OSS emulation?
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>>Kevin
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>I'm using OSS. Never had much luck getting alsa to work on this system,
>but it's worth another shot if it fixes the problem. 
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The latest CVS has a lot of alsa fixes and it sounds like it is working 
really nice for people.  I am meaning to try it myself this weekend and 
upgrade to the latest.  At least I can see on my system that it isn't a 
Myth specific issue but probably something in ffmpeg.

Kevin



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