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PostPosted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:49 pm 
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Question: if I have "libdvdcss" installed, does the default mythtv player use it, or do I have to use mplayer or xine?

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:50 am 
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I belive the answer to that question is 'yes'. I think I've used the Internal player previously to play DVDs, but not so much recently.

I tend to use xine for actual DVD playback. I use the Internal for most other playback (mplayer does not like .iso files) thesedays, especially as it is easier to set up vdpau with 22.

Are you experiencing problems using it?

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:16 pm 
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I was, but now it's working... Not sure what changed. Maybe it needed a reboot.

I have noticed that some DVDs don't play, though. Is there a larger codec library that gets around some of the trickier crap the studios pull?

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:05 pm 
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You'll have to wait until LinHES goes to the latest Mythtv (or do the inplace update yourself).

It's not codec issues --- the internal player still has problems with plenty of valid DVD's out there. But it's getting better...


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:04 pm 
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I do have the latest version of MythTV...

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I too have have had issues playing some commercial DVDs with the Internal player. Transformers 2 comes to mind. I had to dust off the eye patch just to watch it as I don't own an settop DVD players any more. What a wasted effort for that movie :roll:

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:30 am 
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kmkittre wrote:
I have noticed that some DVDs don't play, though. Is there a larger codec library that gets around some of the trickier crap the studios pull?


This is probably referring to the deliberately broken DVDs. Summary: Bad sectors are deliberately introduced to screw up computers that attempt to read the disc. The bad sectors are placed near the beginning. DVD players simply ignore them as they don't do data checks, whereas default behaviour of computers is to re-read (forever). It's an interesting method because the companies that do it think that deliberately introducing errors into a DVD and discriminating against people who don't have a commercial DVD player is OK.

You could in theory get around this by telling mplayer to simply "play" the DVD but use the dumpstream and dumpfile options to save the output as a file.

http://www.duplicatorgator.com/Protection-For-On-Demand-Disc-Publishing
http://www.image-src.com/pdf/WP_DVDCopyProtect.pdf

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