Re: Stopping freevo from trying to use mminfo on inserted disks?

> 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.

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