[mythtv-users] problem playing dvds with menus

[dcw]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 2:55 pm, Charles philip Chan wrote:
> dcw <dwoody1 at charter.net> writes:
> > Got the same results. The menu is displayed but the movie is a mess.
> > The dvds were made on a panasonic dvd recorder. As I recall when the
> > dvd starts to initialize on the panasonic that it displays 'video
> > ram'. Could that be the problem?
>
> Is the video OK if you play a track directly? Also, does this only
> occurs wuth these DVDs or is the video messed up with commercial DVDs as
> well?
Commercial DVDs are ok.
Playing a track directly on the DVDs that have a menu also works.

If I run mplayer from a terminal it tries to play the first track and an error 
message is immediately and repeatedly displayed on the terminal:

mpeg2video warning: first frame is no key frame

David
>
> Charles