I have the following parts shoved into a rack case:

All are brand new.

Intel HT 3.06 ghz /w 2 meg cache CPU
ABIT-VT7 MB w/dreaded via chip set
1.2 gigs of pc 333 mem
Segate 80 gig ide hard drive. (ide channel 0 / master)
Memorex 16x DVD/Dual layer drive (ide channel 0/ slave)
Nividia 5500 pci video card (128 megs)
Hauppauge 150 (WinTV-PVR) w/silver remote
Onboard audio
400 watt power supply

OS: knoppmyth 0.20

Bios settings:
HT is enabled
onboard usb, com ports, printer ports, agp are disabled
secondary ide disabled
sata is disabled


System loads fine, goes through the install fine.

The issues:
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.

Once it is setup you can watch tv but the quality is very poor.

Thanks for any helpful thoughts.

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.


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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Thanks, Burce for the reply.

You are correct on the os version R5E50 here. The DVD was the cheapest one I could find at office depot so I am not sure why it will not load up. I have also tried all the other dvd players in the house with no luck (4 in all).

The quality issue is more that the picture jumps, like how in the old days you had to play with the horizontal hold?

The connection is coax to the computer and then s-video cable to the tv. They wanted 150.00 for the digital cable, so I desided on the s-video.

I will review the locations you pointed out later today and post the results later. Again thanks for your help.

It is a pre-recorded movie, yes?
If it won't play on any of your other players, the quality of the disk may be in question. 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.

Bruce S.

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Updated 2019/10/26: AthlonII X2 265 Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1

No, it was Ice Age and it plays fine on any other dvd player under windows or in a regular dvd player.
Thanks

How come movies can play under Windows/Mac OS just fine?

Did Microsoft & Apple pay for the rights or something?

Officially I have given up, I will continue to watch the forum for a milestone break though but without being able to play DVD's I will be loading Media Center on my PC.

Sorry folks but it was a 2000.00 computer and I need it for its intended pupose. Again Thanks Bruce for your help.