[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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