<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Yes, anything recent from Disney is a surefire problem. The Dark Knight was also a total no-go. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 1/06/2009, at 13:25, Steven Ellis <<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><div><div>On 1/06/2009, at 12:00 PM, Barry Clearwater wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I echo this, the WAF factor is low in the house due to the fact that the old DVD player gets pulled out to play DVD's. With winter upon us and nights in front of the screen more frequent, I'd be keen to find out whats up or if anybody has found a fix for the issue. I even replaced the DVD drive unit thinking it had gotten tired, but to no avail.<br> I too am using 9.04 recently installed.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/30 James Booth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@booths.net.nz"><a href="mailto:james@booths.net.nz">james@booths.net.nz</a></a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;">Since upgrading my Mythbuntu system to 9.04 I have had lots of problems playing DVD's, specifically new ones that I have rented that are full of every copy protection trick under the sun. The internal player and mplayer will not play the discs, but I find that VLC generally will. <br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div>Two questions: Firstly, can anyone suggest why the internal player and mplayer might not be able to handle these discs, but VLC can, and secondly, if I have to use VLC can anyone suggest the best command line settings for launching from Myth?<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Can you provide me with a couple of examples so we can work out what copy protection they are using.</div><div><br></div><div>One disk I had major problems with is Cars which won't play under Linux at all, but plays fine under VLC on a Mac.</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz"><a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a></a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/"><a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a></a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>mythtvnz mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz</a></span><br><span>Archives <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/"><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/</a></a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>