[vdr] Re: DVD

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

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Sergei Haller wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Andy Grobb wrote:
>>
>>AG> Hallo Andreas !!!
>>AG>
>>AG> Jetzt hat mich einer gefragt, warum manche DVDs erst nach 10-30 Sek.
>>AG> starten. Liege ich richtig das es was mit Libdvdread 0.9er Version zu tun
>>AG> hat?, weil mit der 0.8er klappte das super. Mit Nav hat es auch nichts, da
>>AG> es mit Orgi.Vdr auch lange braucht.
>>
>>I also noticet that last week. If you connect a monitor to your vdr box,
>>you will see some debug output (I think, by libdvdread or by libdvdcss)
>>it says something like:
>>
>>... Now getting all title keys, it may take a _long_ time, so be
>>patient...
>>... reading ... reading ... (some further messages)
>>
>>and sometimes everything is ready after <2 sec
>>but sometimes it takes up to 40 sec...
>>
>>but I didn't try it with libdvdread 0.8
>>
>>c ya
>>        Sergei
>>
> 
> Same observation here, but I believe this has to do with newer versions
> of libdvdcss. I tried libdvdcss-1.0.0 and had these problems, then switched
> back to libdvdcss-0.0.3 and all was fine again.


It is definetly libdvdcss related. My guess is that is has something to 
do with getting keys from RPC2 DVD drives and/or DVD's with new/unknown 
keys. Switching to libdvdcss-0.0.3-ogle might be the best idea.

Andreas

> 
> Klaus
>