[mythtv-users] problem playing dvds with menus

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu May 22 22:28:11 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:22:57PM -0500, dcw wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2008 10:05 am, David Watkins wrote:
> > > > Have you tried using the internal mythtv player for DVDs? I'm using
> > > > that one, and it works like a charm.
> > >
> > > Are you referring to changing the default video player from mplayer to
> > > internal?
> > > If so, I just tried that and got the same results
> >
> > Sounds pretty wierd!
> >
> > Did you make these DVD's yourself?
> >
> > I've made a couple of DVDs where (strangely) the menu soundtrack
> > doesnt' play on my frontend (though it does on other DVD players).
> > This makes me think that the menus might use different audio and or
> > video encoding to the film.  Maybe you've found something similar but,
> > instead of not playing, it just throws your frontend into a tizz?
> >
> > I'm just guessing really though.
> I downloaded,  compiled and installed the svn of libdvdnav and mplayer.
> I used 'dvdnav:////dev/dvd ' as the device to play from.
> 
> 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 

...the title of this thread is very misleading. The fact that these
DVDs you're having trouble with are "home made" should have been the
first thing you mentioned.

[deletia]


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list