I can confirm that this bug is actually a configuration issue with many
GPUs and the newer drivers in Ubuntu 8.10+. This is not a code bug and
with the upcoming release of MythTV .22 I have tested DVD playback with
great results. Moving the Mythbuntu bug to Fix-Released
** Changed in: mythbuntu
This bug was fixed in the package mythplugins -
0.22.0~trunk21556-0ubuntu1
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mythplugins (0.22.0~trunk21556-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
* New upstream checkout (r21556)
- Fixes unreliable DVD playback. (LP: #288816)
* mythweb.postinst:
- Make sure www-data can write to
Moving to committed so that the mythbuntu team doesn't think more work
is needed on this. Upstream has fixes in place
** Changed in: mythbuntu
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
** Changed in: mythplugins (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
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Very unreliable DVD playback
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The team understands how big an impact this is on some users and
installs, but to provide some background and hopefully head off a bunch
of "me-too" responses, upstream already investigated this issue and
unfortunately was not able to discover the source of the problem. It
appears to have been fix
I agree. I'd love to see this fixed in the current mythbuntu packages
somehow. It seems 0.22 is a long ways away.
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Very unreliable DVD playback
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288816
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Sorry, I thought that MythTV was using mplayer to playback DVDs (but I
now realize that it uses MythDVD) and the "-menu-startup" command
doesn't do what I expected anyway, but I think that the same principle
applies and that something should be done to ensure that current systems
don't freeze up si
This appears to have been fixed in the trunk of MythTV (
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5630 ), but for now could we just add
an option like "-menu-startup" to bypass the problematic part of the
playback?
I just tried playing back a DVD in Mythbuntu 9.04 beta and it froze up
in MythTV and I had
Looks like upstream isn't going to backport it if it's fixed by the
ffmpeg sync. We'll have to wait till 0.22 then it sounds.
** Changed in: mythbuntu
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Also affects: mythplugins (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: mythplugins
