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[vdr] Re: problems playing DVDs



On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:06, Manuel Panea-Doblado wrote:
> 

please try the current versions
	vdr 1.3.19
	vdr-dvd 0.3.6_b02, or cvs 

we do not support older versions in respect to our
limited human resources :)

afaik .. such stuttering and high cpu utilization
is allready fixed ..

sven

> Hi, all. I have recently installed a DVD drive on my VDR machine to be
> able to watch DVDs.
> 
> I first tried the DVD plugin, but when playing a DVD there are many
> short interruptions of video and audio, perhaps 3 or 4 every 10
> seconds, each very short, a 10th of a second perhaps, but it makes it
> unusable. I have a slow CPU: a Pentium MMX at 200 MHz (400 bogomips),
> but it is otherwise enough for other VDR functions, including
> e.g. timeshifting. I checked the hdparm for the DVD and they seem to
> be fine. I also tried copying a portion of the DVD to the harddisk and
> playing it from there, with same results. So what is causing this
> glitches while playing a DVD?
> 
> Then I tried playing the DVD with Mplayer and it works very well!
> Except that I haven't had much success configuring my remote control
> for using it with Mplayer, so I can only control the DVD replay with
> the computer keyboard.
> 
> Does anyone know in what way the DVD plugin and Mplayer differ while
> playing a DVD? I thought it must be just reading MPEG data from the
> DVD and sending it to the DVB card, so why does Mplayer work well and
> the plugin doesn't?
> 
> And what are you people using to play DVDs? Should I rather try to get
> the DVD plugin working right or should I instead invest my time in
> configuring Mplayer to respond to my remote control?
> 
> Some details about my VDR configuration:
> 
> VDR 1.3.12, DVD Plugin 0.3.5b06, libdvdnav 0.1.9, libdvdread 0.9.4,
> libdvdcss 1.2.8, liba52 0.7.4.
> 
> Thanks for any help, hints or comments.
> 

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