On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Adam Charrett <a...@dvbstreamer.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Stephen Rowles wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have purchased a couple of Disney DVD's recently, because my Son loves >> them (Cars, Toy Story). However there are problems with them. >> >> It seems that they have figured out how to break libdvdread which >> results in it chewing 100% of ram and then dieing. It seems that this is >> due to the DVD being scanned rather than just played. > > Are you sure this isn't libdvdread attempting to find the key? > If that is the case then xine or kaffeine will play fine straight away as > the keys are cached, but the first time can take a little while. My kids > like Toy Story 2 which has some nasty copy protection which means I can't > copy the whole thing to HDD (which I prefer to do rather than get sticky > fingers all over it), but it still plays ok. > > > If I put the DVD in my laptop and play it with Kaffeine I can play it >> just fine because it plays the DVD. In fact on my media centre it plays >> just fine if I launch Xine manually with the xine dvd:// style of >> execution. So to watch them we have to break the laptop out and watch on >> that. >> >> Is there any way to stop Freevo scanning / mounting the DVD's when they >> are inserted? And instead just launch the dvd when I select play from >> the Video menu? It's a real killer atm as the DVD's that are used most >> often can be played, and the same errors stop be ripping them to play >> from the network. > > Not really, this is used to display the name of the disc, the number of > chapters and runtime. > > I believe the only software that can get around the copy protection is > windows based and payware. (Look up ARccOS Protection on wikipedia).
What program is used to parse this info? I know mplayer can play said disks if you use dvdnav:// instead of dvd://. I don't know off hand if mplayer is used though. >> If it was just me I would boycot the DVD's but you can't explain to a 3 >> year old that he can't watch his favourite DVD due to copy protection >> issues ;). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Steve. > Ahh yes, had to sit through the fiftieth play of Wallace and Gromit: Curse > of the Were-Rabbit last week when I was looking after my daughter who had > chicken pox and there was no way of saying no to a face covered in red > spots... > > Cheers > > Adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You > This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details > its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative > solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > -- ASUS M4A78 PRO motherboard Athlon II X4 640 Processor 4 Gigabytes of DDR2-800 Galaxy GTX 465 Graphics adapter KWorld ATSC 110 TV Capture Card KWorld ATSC 115 TV Capture Card ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
