On 03/07/2011 04:18 PM, Adam Charrett 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. > It's not attempting to find the key, as I can never play it via freevo, but works fine on the laptop (didn't take time, even the first time on the laptop with kaffine).
The bug is registered here for ubuntu, although I'm seeing it on fedora, but the same symptoms: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdvdread/+bug/377414 I tried to find it when I wrote the original email but couldn't find it, once I got home got the log and could find it easily :). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
