[mythtv-users] MythVideo 0.25 and Storage Groups .iso problems

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/25/2013 02:50 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/25/2013 01:59 PM, Mike de Plume wrote:
>> I'm aware of previous discussions around this using 0.24 but it seems to
>> have gone away in 0.25 so I'm thinking DVD iso files should work. I know
>> about the encryption thing as well, but...
>>
>> I have two DVDs tat play perfectly ok direct from the drive. Each one
>> fails differently if I try to play then as iso files from the video
>> storage group.
>>
>> Roughly, one of them does a lot of;
>>
>>      mythplayer.cpp:921 (OpenFile) Player(2): OpenFile() waiting on data
>>
>> and then stops trying and returns to the play/close page.
>>
>> The other gives the start of a display and then freezes with:
>>
>>      dvdringbuffer.cpp:507 (WaitForPlayer) DVDRB: Player wait state was
>> not cleared
>>
>> There were no messages about encryption.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure MythTV knows nothing of encryption, so it 
wouldn't log any messages about encryption.

>> My question is, did the various fixes that were raised/discussed in the
>> 0.24 era get into 0.25?
>>
>> Or, to put it another way, what should I be expecting here?
>>
>
> You still need local (to the player) access for encrypted ISOs.  The 
> only difference (in one of the versions, but I forgot which first 
> included it) is that Video Library will use the local copy in 
> preference even if the file is "hosted" on another system, assuming 
> you've network mounted the file system with the ISO in the same 
> location on the frontend.
>
> Mike