[mythtv-users] DVD playback of commercial DVDs

[Allen Edwards]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Jason Chambers
<lists at purplish-monkey.com>wrote:

> On 18/04/2010 08:58, Johannes Köster wrote:
> > DVD playback with the current 0.23-fixes branch seems to be broken. When
> > playing a DVD with menus, Mythtv in some cases fails to display the menu
> > correctly (parts are missing on commercial DVDs). Also after selecting a
> > menu item, the playback hangs either infinitly or Mythtv says that
> > playback failed due to too many dropped frames. Can someone confirm this
> > behaviour? The DVDs are ok because the could be played before on the
> > same system with an version of 0.23-fixes.
>
> I noticed this problem last night but it only seems to affect some DVDs,
> whilst others play fine and I haven't been able to detect any obvious
> pattern.
>
> I get loads (i.e. ~2500 in 30 seconds) of these messages whilst it hangs:
>
> 2010-04-17 23:52:10.128 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
> 2010-04-17 23:52:10.205 [mpeg2video @ 0x7fb470c83300]get_buffer() failed
> (stride changed)
>
> So far I've traced it to changset [24115] (for #8326).  If I back out
> this change I can successfully play the DVDs in the latest 0.23-fixes
> (r24177).
>
> I was just going to test it on another frontend first to confirm it
> wasn't something unique to my machine but as I don't seem to be the only
> one noticing this I'll update the bug with my logs.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
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I have all these same problems and I am using myht 0.21 on Mythbuntu 8.04
stable.

Allen
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