[mythtv-users] Certain DVD's not playing,

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Rob Willett wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was coming round to that way of thinking. Oh well, any recommendations between
>xine and ogle?
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>Thanks,
>
>Rob.
>
>Quoting "J. Donavan Stanley" <jdonavan at jdonavan.net>:
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>>Rob Willett wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I have mythtv 0.14 working. I thought I had DVD output through mplayer all
>>>working. It certainly works for Master and Commander. I tried a new DVD of
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>>an
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>>>old B/W film Rashamon by Kurasawa and it will not move from a title screen
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>>to
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>>>the main film. 
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>>>I get 23 seconds or so of British Film Introduction and then it simply
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>>drops
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>>>back to MythTv. If I look at the CD I can see that there is a Video_TS
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>>directory
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>>>and that everything looks OK. I *can* play the main film by forcing mplayer
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>>to
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>>>go to the second video_file e.g. mplayer dvd://2 ...
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>>>Anybody else had similar problems moving from one VOB to another?
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>>AFAIK Mplayer only plays what it considers to be the main title on the 
>>DVD.  If you want to "move between vobs" and/or use DVD menus you'll 
>>need to use xine or ogle.
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I use xine myself, mainly since that way I can play all my video files 
as well as DVDs through one player instead of using several.