Re: Xine seriously hates the Thor DVD - libdvdread needs refreshing.

On 20/04/12 14:32, Chris Rankin wrote:
> I suspect that xine produces an error message because its internal 
> libdvdnav doesn't have the unicodes fixes. Once I add those fixes, 
> xine fails more mysteriously.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> *From:* Michael Hughes <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Friday, 20 April 2012, 13:56
> *Subject:* Re: [xine-devel] Xine seriously hates the Thor DVD - 
> libdvdread needs refreshing.
>
> MythTV dumps you back to the menus while MPlayer and VLC simply crash
> when you try to open the disk.  At least Xine produces an error message!
>
> There are actually quite a lot of commercial movie and TV episode disks
> which do not play for various reasons.  I am not prepared to work on
> that part of the code at the present time but I wonder if it would be
> worth posting references to disks which do not play for the benefit of
> the people working in that area.  Perhaps they already know about enough
> disks to keep them busy.  I should have been keeping a log of this but I
> haven't.
>
> Mike
>

The only reliable way to fix this is to send a copy of the problem DVD 
to the developer, i.e. me.
I have not come across a DVD that xine cannot play recently.
xine does not currently support damaged DVDs. I.e. Ones with sector errors.
For proper support of damaged DVDs, libdvdnav requires a lot of work, 
and I don't have time for that currently, but I should have enough time 
to get a single problem DVD to play.

Kind Regards

James

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