[mythtv-users] Myth 0.24 and Blu-ray

[Tom Flair]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Tom Flair <tom at graniteskies.net> wrote:
> > One of my favorite additions to 0.24 is blu-ray playback.  I have a fan
> edit
> > of a certain trilogy that was released as  blu-ray format as well as a
> > handful of unencrypted discs that I've purchased that now play back
> > perfectly using the internal player.
> >
> > Now that there is some support for pressed discs
> > (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Definition_Disk_Formats), I wrote a
> quick
> > and dirty script to provide the necessary information to the KEYDB.cfg
> and
> > initiate the mythavtest program.   What I've noticed with playing back an
> > encrypted disk versus an MKV dump of the same disc is a lot of stuttering
> > and skipping.  As I currently only have one BD-ROM drive, I don't know if
> > this is a problem with the my drive not reading the data fast enough or a
> > side effect of decrypting and playing back the disc at the same time.
> >
> > So, my question is this:  Is there a performance penalty for decrypting
> and
> > playing back a pressed disc on the fly or is there a defect with my drive
> or
> > settings inside Myth that I've overlooked?
>
> There is certainly a performance penalty for decrypting, but none that
> has ever caused stuttering or issues for me.  There are no settings in
> Myth relating to Blu-ray playback.  Could be a disc mastering issue,
> could be a drive issue, could be a system issue.
>
> Robert
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Hrm.  Not what I was hoping to hear, but about what I was expecting.   I
have another drive on the way so I'll test again with that on another
system.
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