On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 10:21 +0000, Stephen Rowles wrote: > > > Stephen- > More usefully in general would be if you could give a list of > the > DVD's that are problems. This sounds like a case were > improving mminfo > makes more sense than breaking a generally useful system. If > the dev's > know what dvds break things then they can look for ways to > identify > badly formed disks and compensate for it. > > > I've looked into the problem before and IIRC it is a problem in the > decss library which causes it to chew lots of memory and CPU until > eventually the scheduler kills it. From reading threads out there it > seems that this is deliberate targeting of the library by the big > studios to build disks that will play fine in a dvd player but blow up > when you try to use the usual decss techniques on them. > > I'll see if I can get an example of disks that don't work, I think > Cars from Disney is a good example (and my son's favourite DVD so the > most annoying one!) but I will double check and reply with some that I > know don't work. > > TBH I may simply abandon DVD playback via Freevo all together, the new > network attached blu-ray players are very tempting as they will be > able to stream content directly from my NAS and will upgrade my DVD > playback to Blu-ray. That will mean I can have an even smaller Freevo > system as DVD drive will no longer be required.
Hmmm, interesting Disney do seem to add a lot more copy protection than other publishers. Still, I've managed to play all the Disney DVDs we've got, including recent ones like Tangled, ok. On the DVD playback side in general, I really must find some time to add a VLC based DVD player to Freevo to allow Title/Chapter/Time based bookmarks and resume (something my old dvd player circa '02 could do). Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
