Quote: The dvd drive shows a movie in it but it will not play it. The error is gone to fast to see what it says.
If you try to rip the dvd it goes through the motions spins up the drives but even after 2 hours it has done nothing else.
If the DVD is a commercial one, it's protected by CSS and region encoding. Due patent and other legal issues, Cecil is not legally allowed to supply the library that allows access to CSS protected material.
There are ways of installing this library, which are documented elsewhere on the Internet.
Quote: OS: knoppmyth 0.20
Once it is setup you can watch tv but the quality is very poor.
I'm assuming you mean Knoppmyth R5E50, which uses MythTV 0.20.
From what source are you capturing from, if you are capturing from a STB, you can improve quality by capturing using either a Composite Video or S-Video connection, as long as your STB supplies either of these.
There are supposedly two issues with the new driver for some PVRx50 cards, firstly that the capture size needs to be the native resolution of the source if you require to capture the VBI information for subtitles.
Secondly there is a filter setting that has changed between issues, changing the value of this supposedly increases capture quality, markedly.
If you look at this thread describes some issues. The filter issue is described here.
What type of output are you using (VGA, Component, S-Video, Composite)?
Bruce S.
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You do get bad pressings or disks get damaged. Another thing to look at would be the region coding of the disk, perhaps they purchased a batch destined for somewhere else in the world.