[mythtv-users] problems with VIDEO_TS directories

Mark Boyum circushair at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 13:57:37 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:45:04PM
> +1300:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > > Marc Randolph <mrand at pobox.com> wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at
> 04:27:49PM -0600:
> > >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com>
> wrote:
> > >> > I'm starting to rip my DVD collection to my hard drive with the
> intent
> > >> > of watching them in MythVideo. I started with ISO, but I ripped the
> > >> > last couple as VIDEO_TS. I'm able to play the VIDEO_TS directories
> > >> > (except see below), and I'm able to set a bookmark when I exit in
> the
> > >> > middle of the movie or episode. However, when I play the same
> VIDEO_TS
> > >> > later, expecting to resume at the bookmark, MythVideo simply starts
> at
> > >> > the beginning without offering me the option to resume. The ISOs
> > >> > respect the bookmark. This is on 0.24.1. Is this expected behavior?
> If
> > >> > so, will 0.25 behave the same way? Am I better off just sticking to
> > >> > ISO?
> > >> >
> > >> > I've had one problem playing the VIDEO_TS directories. I've had to
> > >> > first play an ISO (any ISO, even just for a second) before I could
> > >> > play a VIDEO_TS. Without playing the ISO first, I'd get the "Please
> > >> > Wait..." message for 30 seconds or so and then I was returned to the
> > >> > menu. I've only tried this a couple of times, so maybe it's just a
> > >> > fluke. I did see it on two different frontends, however, trying and
> > >> > failing with multiple VIDEO_TS directories before playing an ISO,
> > >> > after which the VIDEO_TS directories started right up.
> > >>
> > >> You say you are running 0.24.1... do you mean that literially, or are
> > >> you running 0.24-fixes, which might be labeled somewhere/somehow as
> > >> 0.24.1?
> > >> If you aren't running 0.24-fixes, I would encourage you do to so...
> > >> even if a number of users (including myself) continue to have DVD and
> > >> ISO playback issues, I seem to recall that there are some related
> > >> issues that were resolved on the 0.24-fixes branch after the 0.24.1
> > >> snapshot was taken.
> > >
> > > I'm running 0.24.1-fixes-20111126 on a debian combined
> > > backend/frontend. I'm also running 0.24.0-fixes-20110416 on two
> > > Mythbuntu 11.04 frontends. (I've tried to update those to more recent
> > > fixes versions, but I can't figure out how. apt-get, synaptic, and
> > > update manager all show that mythtv-frontend is at its latest version,
> > > even after an apt-get update.) I see the same bookmark behavior on
> > > all three frontends.
> > >
> > > As far as needing to play an ISO before I can play a VIDEO_TS, after
> > > some more experiments that doesn't appear to be true. On my two
> > > Mythbuntu FEs, a newly-ripped VIDEO_TS still won't play on the first
> > > attempt, but it will on the second and subsequent attempts. On my
> > > debian BE/FE, it will play on the first attempt.
> >
> > Are these VIDEO_TS directories decrypted? If they are encrypted then
> > the decrypting software takes some time to generate keys (or whatever
> > it does).
> >
> > Perhaps there is a timeout difference between versions? Or a
> > computational power difference which makes the process complete before
> > the timeout on one machine but not the other?
> >
> > Once it is done once, the encryption keys are stored somewhere, and so
> >  on the second try there is no delay?
>
> Interesting theory. Yes, they are encrypted. I'll investigate this
> possibility some more. If this were true, though, wouldn't the same
> thing happen to the ISOs? Those start up on the first try on every
> frontend.
>
>
To update your Mythbuntu you'll need to add the Mythbuntu Repositories and
then use Mythbuntu Control Centre to select the correct version.

http://www.mythbuntu.org/repos

HTH,
-Mark
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