On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:21:01AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > (potentially interested parties in CC.) > > Since the last snapshot containing mplayer-20100308 I have noticed: > > a) DVD's don't play on my thinkpad using the external CD drive. I am not sure > if > this ever worked - its the first time. >
erf, I can no longer verify which version it was but with a relatively recent snapshot i watched a dvd weeks ago. > I notice this in dmesg at this time: > cd0(umass0:1:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28 > SENSE KEY: Illegal Request > ASC/ASCQ: Read Of Scrambled Sector Without Authentication > > Now I know mplayer had its own DVD decrypter, but has this changed? Anyone > know. Either way I have installed: > > libdvd-0.3p2 descramble scrambled DVDs using ACSS > libdvdcss-1.2.9 descramble scrambled DVDs > libdvdnav-4.1.3v0 DVD read/navigation library > libdvdread-0.9.7p1 accessing DVD files > > b) Stuttering sound after some time of playing some file/stream. Very > annoying. > The old version of mplayer did not do this for me. > > Has anyone experienced either of these issues, or is it a hardware > specific bug? > I have experienced this while playing a mp3 two or three days ago, I have switched to mpg123 to make sure it wasn't related to the file itself and it worked perfect. didn't fill a bug report because i was unsure my bastard system was at cause > Maybe I need to work on another update - perhaps we just checked out at a bad > time. > > I just looked at the mplayer www page, they are thinking of... releasing?! > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html > > Thanks for enduring my nonsensical rantings. > > -- > Best Regards > Edd Barrett > > http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk > -- Gilles Chehade freelance developer/sysadmin/consultant http://www.poolp.org
