[mythtv-users] MythArchive DVD menus freeze

[Jesse Guardiani]

Karl Newman wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem with the DVDs created by MythArchive. 
> When I play a DVD created by MythArchive in a standalone DVD player or 
> using WinDVD, selecting an item on a menu seems to freeze the player. 
> I can usually get it to go to the destination by clicking pause and 
> then play (sometimes repeatedly). This happens whether the destination 
> is a video or another menu.

Hi Karl,

I'm having the same problem. (and have been since 0.18.1)


> I've tried nearly all the themes and both 4:3 and 16:9 formats to try 
> to isolate this bug, but they all do it. The only success I've had is 
> with the autoplay theme, but obviously that has no menus.
>
> I had this same problem using the original mythburn scripts as well, 
> so I have to believe it's something in my toolchain. I think the most 
> likely culprit is dvdauthor. I've searched up and down the mailing 
> lists, dvdauthor bug reports, general google searches, etc. and I've 
> seen only one other person that seemed to have a sort-of similar 
> problem, but no resolution.

Me too. When I was using 0.18.1 and mythburn everything worked great. 
But after 0.19 came out I started having this problem, and now since the 
upgrade to 0.20 it persists.
Did you ever find a solution?

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at guardiani.us