[mythtv-users] Cannot play imported DVD

[EJS]

>>>>Would anyone know why I cannot play an ISO that I
>>>>imported?  The DVD itself played fine, but when I try
>>>>to play the ISO through mythvideo, mythfrontend crashes. All
>>>>of the other ISOs I have imported seem to play fine.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>No ideas?      
>>
>>Well I haven't had any luck sorting this one out, so I thought i would try to ask for help one more time. 
>  
>So it may just be the encoding on the DVD.  What does mplayer -identify say?
>
>Also, try mencoder to transcode it; it may be the best alternative.

Thanks for the response! Here are the results from mplayer -identify. Interestingly, mplayer also seems to struggle. The intro plays fine, but once it gets past that it seems to struggle to generate a viewable picture. It doesnt crash at least. If these results don't provide any leads, I'll give mencoder a try.

MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Playing /movies/dvd/Mary Poppins.iso.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=/movies/dvd/Mary Poppins.iso
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=8000000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=7602.89
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffmpeg2
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=448000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
[pulse] working around probably broken pause functionality,
        see http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/440
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.3333
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 
ID_AUDIO_ID=015.5 A-V:  0.011 ct:  0.081 460/460  5%  0%  0.7% 0 0 
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1