<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Hey again all.<br>
<br>I have an interesting issue and seem to be chasing my tail. ( Not 100% *NZ* related, but know you guys are the best help. ) <br><ul><li>Some DVD's will not rip to my mythtv box. They crash 3/4 the way through the rip process. (all ripping as 'iso', but fails a 'perfect' vob rip too. Havent bothered with transcode). <br>
</li><li>Fails to rip with vobcopy from command line, similar to above.<br></li><li>Many of my already ripped videos will not play to the end, and crash the player (mythvideo/vlc/mplayer) at about the 3/4 mark. I'm not sure if its in the same place, and sometimes crashes at the start of the video before the menu screen. (using differnent players also. Mplayer being the most fragile)<br>
</li><li>Sometimes crashes the Internal player, or the whole frontend. If using VLC from desktop, it drops the movie but the ap stays open similar to if the movie ended. <br></li><li>Seems to be fragile if fast fowarding - not sure - need to test more.<br>
</li><li>One of the iso's that will not play to the end was ripped on another machine and plays fine on that other machine. <br></li><li>One of the ISO's that plays fine on another machine jumps and stutters like audio and video are fighting for each other for sync. <br>
</li><li>Actual physical DVD's play fine - all the way to the end.</li><li>Have run 'spin-rite' over the drives and they had no apparent problem. </li><li>Have tried different playback profiles (is that only for TV playback??) (CPU--, CPU+, Normal) - same results. <br>
</li><li>Am currently transferring one of the 'trouble' ISO's to my windows machine to see if it plays there. Also have a long AVI file from BT that i'm tranferring from my server to my mythbox to see what happens there. <br>
</li><li>Have no problem with recorded freevew ( from SkystarII DVB-S)</li><li>DVD's are a combination of PAL and NTSC - the worst offenders are Cars, Madagascar and Over The Hedge. OTH was ripped on another machine and plays fine there. <br>
</li></ul>The only things I can think of:<br><ul><li>problem with the latest version of libdvdcss.deb? ( i tried a previous version I had on a memstick but no change) <br></li><li>a sound issue?? as i did try installing the pulse audio manager but it didnt do anything so removed it), <br>
</li><li>DVD DMA or related?</li><li>Start again, reinstall and re-rip. (now is the time for me to do that..... )</li><li>Rip them all at my server and transfer them over. <br></li><li>I must check all the internal connections (SATA etc,) again too... <br>
</li></ul><br>Software: <br>Mythbuntu 8.04 mostly default install with some minor apps added.<br>Mythtv 0.21<br>Nvidia Proprietry Drivers (from mythbuntu repo)<br>Combined front and backend. <br><br>Hardware:<br>MSI GeForce 6200 LE 128MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - (fanless) (DVI to 42" Plasma: Sony 42-PX2)<br>
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200 on an ( ECS GEforce 6100-PM-M2 mobo (VGA only) (not using onboard graphics) <br>1 GB DDR2800<br>2x 500GB storage (seagate)<br>1 x DVB-S skystarII <br>onboard sound<br><br><br>Anyone????<br><br>Cheers in advance, <br>
<br>Russ<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>