[Freevo-users] Stopping freevo from trying to use mminfo on inserted disks?
Hi all, Increasingly I am having problems with badly formatted DVD's (copy protection systems) that are "corrupt" if mminfo tries to read them, but will play just fine if you play them in a real DVD player (or if I just use Xine to play the DVD from standard X session without Freevo involved). What I would like to do is stop the insert notification stuff inside Freevo from being called so that when I go to the "Play DVD" menu Freevo would simply launch "xine dvd://" and play the DVD without scanning, showing disk name etc. Is this already possible with a config option? If not can someone point me in the right direction to start hacking at the code so I can switch it off. I asked a similar question before but things have moved on since then so I thought I'd double check, I would also appreciate any pointers into the code base to direct my hacking if it still isn't supported. Cheers, Stephen. -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Stopping freevo from trying to use mminfo on inserted disks?
2011/10/25 Stephen Rowles : > Hi all, > > Increasingly I am having problems with badly formatted DVD's (copy > protection systems) that are "corrupt" if mminfo tries to read them, but > will play just fine if you play them in a real DVD player (or if I just use > Xine to play the DVD from standard X session without Freevo involved). > > What I would like to do is stop the insert notification stuff inside Freevo > from being called so that when I go to the "Play DVD" menu Freevo would > simply launch "xine dvd://" and play the DVD without scanning, showing disk > name etc. > > Is this already possible with a config option? If not can someone point me > in the right direction to start hacking at the code so I can switch it off. > > I asked a similar question before but things have moved on since then so I > thought I'd double check, I would also appreciate any pointers into the code > base to direct my hacking if it still isn't supported. > > Cheers, > > Stephen. > Stephen- More usefully in general would be if you could give a list of the DVD's that are problems. This sounds like a case were improving mminfo makes more sense than breaking a generally useful system. If the dev's know what dvds break things then they can look for ways to identify badly formed disks and compensate for it. evan -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Stopping freevo from trying to use mminfo on inserted disks?
> Stephen- > More usefully in general would be if you could give a list of the > DVD's that are problems. This sounds like a case were improving mminfo > makes more sense than breaking a generally useful system. If the dev's > know what dvds break things then they can look for ways to identify > badly formed disks and compensate for it. > > I've looked into the problem before and IIRC it is a problem in the decss library which causes it to chew lots of memory and CPU until eventually the scheduler kills it. From reading threads out there it seems that this is deliberate targeting of the library by the big studios to build disks that will play fine in a dvd player but blow up when you try to use the usual decss techniques on them. I'll see if I can get an example of disks that don't work, I think Cars from Disney is a good example (and my son's favourite DVD so the most annoying one!) but I will double check and reply with some that I know don't work. TBH I may simply abandon DVD playback via Freevo all together, the new network attached blu-ray players are very tempting as they will be able to stream content directly from my NAS and will upgrade my DVD playback to Blu-ray. That will mean I can have an even smaller Freevo system as DVD drive will no longer be required. -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Stopping freevo from trying to use mminfo on inserted disks?
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 10:21 +, Stephen Rowles wrote: > > > Stephen- > More usefully in general would be if you could give a list of > the > DVD's that are problems. This sounds like a case were > improving mminfo > makes more sense than breaking a generally useful system. If > the dev's > know what dvds break things then they can look for ways to > identify > badly formed disks and compensate for it. > > > I've looked into the problem before and IIRC it is a problem in the > decss library which causes it to chew lots of memory and CPU until > eventually the scheduler kills it. From reading threads out there it > seems that this is deliberate targeting of the library by the big > studios to build disks that will play fine in a dvd player but blow up > when you try to use the usual decss techniques on them. > > I'll see if I can get an example of disks that don't work, I think > Cars from Disney is a good example (and my son's favourite DVD so the > most annoying one!) but I will double check and reply with some that I > know don't work. > > TBH I may simply abandon DVD playback via Freevo all together, the new > network attached blu-ray players are very tempting as they will be > able to stream content directly from my NAS and will upgrade my DVD > playback to Blu-ray. That will mean I can have an even smaller Freevo > system as DVD drive will no longer be required. Hmmm, interesting Disney do seem to add a lot more copy protection than other publishers. Still, I've managed to play all the Disney DVDs we've got, including recent ones like Tangled, ok. On the DVD playback side in general, I really must find some time to add a VLC based DVD player to Freevo to allow Title/Chapter/Time based bookmarks and resume (something my old dvd player circa '02 could do). Cheers Adam -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
