[mythtv-users] Directly to DVD Menu in MythVideo?

[Dave Johansen]

So, is the trunk stable enough to use?

It seems that I keep running into little issues like this and I'm
usually told, "it's a known issue with 0.21 and it will be fixed in
0.22".

Dave

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Vern <spamvern at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Subject: [mythtv-users] Directly to DVD Menu in MythVideo?
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> Is there a way to setup MythVideo to go directly to the menu when I
> start watching a DVD? I know that this has been fixed in the trunk (
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5630 ), but I'm having an issue with
> it freezing on the FBI screen in Mythbuntu 9.04 (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/288816 ), and I would like
> to come up with some sort of work around so I can at least watch DVDs.
>
> If there's no other option, then I'll just use an external player, but
> I would like to use MythTV's player, if possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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> Even if you get to the menu, there is a very good chance you won't get to
> watch the DVD anyway.  The internal DVD player isn't very good in myth
> 0.21.
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> You can try either frantically hitting the left and right arrows which skip
> to the next chapter and might get you to the menu.  Or you can define a
> remote key to something such as "Alt+M" and then in your keybindings table,
> make sure said key is defined for JUMPTODVDROOTMENU.  With that, one key
> will usually jump you right to the DVD menu where you have a 50% chance of
> not getting stuck on the short promo usually in front of actually playing
> the movie once you choose play.
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