[mythtv-users] Ripped DVD's issues

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Dave Oxley wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 2006, at 6:01 AM, Dave Oxley wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have ripped quite a few DVD's as either Perfect or as an ISO. When
>>> playing them back I have several issues:
>>> 1. The length of the movies is reported incorrectly (Some say  
>>> they're
>>> only 1 second long others say 30 mins while other say 4 hours)
>>> 2. Fast forwarding at anything above 3x or skipping forward (10  
>>> mins)
>>> makes the video freeze and but the audio seems to go into super fast
>>> mode and I have to kill the frontend as it never recovers.
>>>
>>> The frontend is an AMD64 machine running Gentoo and the backend  
>>> is an
>>> EM64T also running Gentoo. They both run trunk revision 9483
>>> although I
>>> don't think this is a recent issue. The frontend is set up to use  
>>> the
>>> Internal player rather than Xine or mplayer. I haven't got a 32 bit
>>> machine running Linux at the moment so I don't know if this is a 64-
>>> Bit
>>> problem. It may well be a file size issue as obviously the files are
>>> multiple gigabytes (the filesystem is RieserFS).
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen these sort of issues? Is there a solution or is
>>> this a bug that is to be fixed.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Well since you don't appear to live in the "Land of the Free" we can
>> discuss the matter :-))
>>
>> Have you gone to the video manager (setup/utility- Video manager) and
>> selected the option to import the IMDB data ? This should get you the
>> correct metadata such as run time, as well as the cover art. If your
>> disks do not have IMDB entries you will have to enter that info
>> manually. Sometimes the title is ambiguous, and you will have to tell
>> the system which of similar titles you actually have (Chicago is an
>> example) and in extreme cases (Mars Attacks) you will have to
>> manually enter the IMDB number, which you can get from the IMDB  
>> website.
>>
>>
>>
> Yeah, all my DVD rips have imdb information. Playing the movie does  
> not
> use the running time from the imdb information though, its just for
> information purposes.
>

Ah, so you mean the TRT as shown by your player is wrong ? Does it do  
this with any player or just one in particular (ie: mplayer and xine ?).