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

On 16/05/12 03:03, Michael Hughes wrote:
> On 05/15/2012 06:14 AM, James wrote:
>> The only reliable way to fix this is to send a copy of the problem DVD
>> to the developer, i.e. me.
> Most of the problem disks I run into are rentals which I do not own. Of
> course you get defective disks but I am talking about disks which play
> perfectly on my hardware DVD player and usually on other software. You
> must have a rental operation somewhere so that you could get copies to test.
>
> The most common problem is that the on-disk menu does not work so you
> can't get at the content.  I do find some that crash the program when it
> tries to play the main content and others that fail to open the disk,
> usually producing a "Cannot Decode" error. The DVD of the movie "Thor"
> will not open in any of the software I tried (I did not try Totem) but
> played perfectly on my old Sony box. It is a pretty sorry movie but
> looks like it might be a good debugging tool. It may have intentional
> errors intended to act as a copy protection scheme.
>
> Mike
>
>
Unfortunately, that is not good enough.
Although the title of the DVD is the same, there can be many different 
versions of it.
I would really need the exact problem DVD in order to fix the problem.
If you try to play the dvd in xine with "xine --verbose dvd://" then 
post the output, I might at least know roughly where the problem is.

libdvdnav does not yet support all DVD menu features, so it might be one 
of those being the problem. It is impossible to tell what the problem is 
from the posts to this list so far.


Kind Regards

James


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