[vdr] Re: DVD playback problems

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Hi Richard,

The symptoms you describe are completly normal for the current state of 
the DVD support.

The additional features of a DVD, like interviews/making of/outtakes 
mostly use special navigation features, additional menues, still frames, 
and so on. All those feature are not supported yet. Also, some of the 
Title entries you see in vdr's DVD menue, realy refer to menu sequences 
and therefore need special treatment as well.

All those things will hopefully be available soon - lets say in two 
month time. Until then, you just have to live with it.

Watch this list for news on the improved DVD support ;-)

Andreas


Richard Cieply wrote:

> Hi,
> as I'm quite new to this list I would first  like to congratulate the
> developers for this
> great  work on vdr,dvb,dvd and all the patches...it's really fun.
> But now to my problem:
> When replaying a DVD I have often a kind of framedrops, there is a grey
> horizontal
> pixel-bar in the lower third of the picture (about 10 lines high) and there
> are a lot of sound chircks.
> But this happens only on some chapters. The 'main' chapter with its
> subchapter works allways fine,
> i.e. in the DVD menu on VDR playing the 1. chapter (saying for instance to
> have 18 subchapters).
> So I can watch the movie/concert (whatever) but I can't playback any
> interviews/making of/outtakes.
> So far I tested only two DVDs: 'Ramstein - Live in Berlin' and 'Scary
> Movie'. Both with same symptoms.
> Funny enough there are few exceptions where I can clearly playback a
> 'add-on chapter'.
> I tried different combinations of the dvb driver (dvb.20010917,
> dvb.20010921 and dvb.20011117),
> vdr (vdr.095 - vdr.099pre), libdvdread 0.9.1/0.9.2 and
> libdvdcss.0.0.3.ogle/libdvdcss.1.0.0.
> All with the same effect.
> My current setup is dvb.20011117, vdr.099pre, libdvdread.0.9.2,
> libdvdcss.1.0.0 (works better for me than the ogle), linux kernel 2.4.10
> (SuSE 7.3).
> BTW: I have the Pioneer 106s DVD-ROM drive on a PII350. I have no 5.1 HW,
> sound output comes
> from the DVB card (Rev. 2.1), no soundcard installed, additional DVB Nova.
> When I use dvdplayer I can play all .vob files clearly - however it doesn't
> use
> libdvdread and has it's own discrambler.
> Is there anyone having the same problem?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> best regards,
>         Richard Cieply
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