[mythtv-users] Unable to skip forwards during DVD playback

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:50:51 +0100, you wrote:

>On 13/04/14 17:56, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>
>> I just tried watching a DVD, but not from the start. I'd watched the
>> first part on another machine (nothing to do with Myth), then wanted to
>> watch the rest on my frontend.
>> 
>> So I fast-forwarded to the part I wanted to watch, but when I pressed
>> play it began playing the movie back from the beginning, not from the
>> part I had fast-forwarded to.
>> 
>> Does anyone know what's going on?
>
>You seem to have just discovered UOP ;-)
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_operation_prohibition
>
>But I'm not sure whether Myth (or Linux in general) obeys UOP. I ripped
>my DVDs long time ago...

My understanding of UOP is that it would prevent the fast-forward key
from working at all.  The OP seems to have been able to skip forwards
to the place he wanted to play from and then had it go back to the
beginning.