[mythtv-users] DVD playback not working after upgrade to 0.21

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/21/2008 09:16 PM, Chris Purves wrote:
> When I go to play a DVD using the internal player the DVD will play for a few 
> seconds then either shut down mythfrontend or mythfrontend will get stuck 
> with Xorg using 100% of CPU cycles.  In addition the auto-play function is no 
> longer working.  I don't know if this is related.
>
> I have upgraded mythtv from 0.20 to 0.21 on a Debian box.  I removed mythdvd 
> and installed mythvideo which I understand is the correct upgrade path.  
> Since the upgrade I am unable to play DVD's although other mythtv functions 
> appear to be working.  I have tried different decoders: ffmpeg, libmpeg2, and 
> xvmc with no improvement.
>
> Below is the output from the mythfrontend log from when I start playback to 
> when it fails:
>
>
>   
...
> greedyhdeint: size changed from 720 x 480 -> 0 x 0

Looks like you may be using 0.21 release (i.e. the tarballs).  If so, 
DVD playback doesn't work, and you'll need to upgrade to the current 
0.21-fixes version ( http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 , 
the part after "To use a release version").

Mike