[mythtv-users] DVD playback problems

[Piers Kittel]

George,

George Nassas wrote:
> 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:

Before I post on the -dev mailing list, one thing I 
discovered/remembered recently.  I have to be root to be able to play 
back the DVD when using mplayer and I have never really worked out how 
to make a normal user play DVDs.  Mythfrontend runs under the user 
"piers" so maybe if I can make the user "piers" to be able to play DVDs 
it might fix my problem?  Although I haven't had any problems running 
mplayer to play DVDs as piers before the upgrade...

This is the information I obtained from the database:

DVDDeviceLocation - /misc/cd 
                      DVDOnInsertDVD    - 1 
                                           DVDPlayerCommand  - 
/usr/local/bin/mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device %d -fs -zoom -vo xv -slang en
DVDRipLocation    - /var/lib/mythdvd/temp 



Thanks very much for your help again!

Cheers - Piers