[mythtv-users] DVD playback problems

[George Nassas]

On 29-Oct-06, at 1:55 PM, Piers Kittel wrote:

> 2006-10-29 18:28:46.135 RingBuf(dvd://misc/cd): OpenFile(dvd://misc/ 
> cd, 12)
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10-xine from http://xine.sf.net
> libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
> libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/piers/.dvdnav/.map'
> libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f20000.  
> Regions:
> 1 3 4

These are progress messages from the internal player, your old  
settings were switched out as part of the upgrade from .19 to .20. If  
you choose to accept your mission as volunteer tester you can repost  
this over on -dev and see if Stanley Kamithi or Anduin Withers  
respond, they seem to be looking after this area nowadays. Failing  
that you can flip the player back to what you had before. I'm not  
sure why your frontend would be crashing in the setup menu, I use  
debian and have no trouble with this. A workaround would be to tweak  
the database directly. Something like this:

select * from settings where value like 'DVD%';

will show you your current settings and:

update settings
set data = 'mplayer blaa blaa'
where value = 'DVDPlayerCommand'
   and hostname = 'whatever it was';

will change the important one.

- George