[mythtv-users] [OT]Internal DVD player, new DVDs fail to play

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Wed Dec 13 21:31:10 UTC 2006


Jake Thompson wrote:
> I found this with pretty much every DVD I owned, I gave up and stuck 
> with xine, but I would love the internal player to be stable enough.  
> Even xine has issues (unable to play Naco Libre). 
> 
> On 12/13/06, *osma ahvenlampi* <oa at iki.fi <mailto:oa at iki.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     I've recently started noting problems using the internal player on new
>     DVDs. Older ones still work nicely, but discs mastered this year (such
>     as Munich (region 2 / nordic with Finnish subtitles among others)
>     won't play. The screen goes black for 20 seconds while the player
>     scans for CSS keys, finds them, tries to show the menu, fails, and
>     then returns to the MythTV menus.
> 
>     This is not the only such DVD - in fact, it's difficult these days to
>     find a new movie that did work in the player. Yet xine is able to play
>     these discs just fine.
> 
>     Anyone else see the issue?
> 
>     --
>     Osma Ahvenlampi   <oa at iki.fi <mailto:oa at iki.fi>>      
>     http://www.fishpool.org
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If I was a DVD player, I wouldn't play nacho libre either...  :-(
I kid, I kid....



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