[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2294: Internal DVD player - chopping and pixelated picture

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 01:17:01 UTC 2006


On 9/1/06, Jack Perveiler <perveilerj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/1/06, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> > > #2294: Internal DVD player - chopping and pixelated picture
> > >
> > -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
> > >  Reporter:  anonymous  |       Owner:  awithers
> > >      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new
> > >  Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  unknown
> > > Component:  mythdvd    |     Version:
> > >  Severity:  high       |
> > >
> > -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
> > >  When playing "Madagascar" with the internal DVD player (SVN 10997), the
> > >  main title is chopping and in sections where there's a lot of movement,
> > >  the image gets pixelated or blocky.  Interestingly, when I do 'mythfronend
> > >  -v playback,audio' it goes away.
> > >
> > > --
> >
> > I saw the same thing on Underworld Evolution.  Someone mentioned that
> > changing Myth's mpeg decoder to the libmpeg2 library instead of ffmpeg
> > solved the problem, but I never tried it -- I just used xine for that
> > movie.
> >
> > John
>
> I've also seen this with Underworld Evolution, but Xine wouldn't play it
> either, and I was unable to rip an iso of it as well.  A friend of mine said
> the only way he could get his copy to play was to rip it with DVD Shrink.  I've
> read that  it was because Sony was using some newfangled copy protection on it.
>  I can't remember where I read that, but you can google around for it.
>
> --Jack

Right.  I had to use dvdfab:

http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm

John


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