RE: [xine-user] dvdnav vs. Akira: The Special Edition (resend)

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The problems with this disc wouldn't all happen to stem from it being
RCE encoded would it?

On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 02:03, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> There is quite a lot of work going on at the moment with regard to dvdnav.
> I am currently testing a new way of handling menus in xine.
> Once I have something which I think might improve things, I will check it
> into the 'dvd' branch first, and if it is stable enough and I have had
> enough feedback, I will check it into the main branch.
> 
> The current method dvdnav uses to highlight menus has some issues, which
> cannot be fixed without quite a lot of work.
> Once I have done the work, It should improve things a lot.
> 
> It does sound like a particularly problematic DVD which I would very much
> like a copy of, if you want to donate it. :-)
> I am particularly interested with the stretched highlights, and also the
> some highlights not happening at all.
> The method for selecting subtitle channels will be changing soon and works
> well with my experimental code.
> 
> If you want to see the latest highly experimental xine code for dvds, try
> the default CVS branch of dvdnav, and the 'dvd' branch of xine-lib, xine-ui.
> It is the copy of my "work in progress".
> 
> Cheers
> James
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xin...@li...
> > [mailto:xin...@li...]On Behalf Of Scott Bigham
> > Sent: 22 December 2001 14:12
> > To: xine-user mailing list
> > Subject: [xine-user] dvdnav vs. Akira: The Special Edition (resend)
> >
> >
> > [Apologies if this appears twice; it's been ~11 hrs and it hasn't shown
> >  up at this end...]
> >
> > Having finally sussed out the audio/video sync problems I was having
> > before,[1] I've moved on to the more daunting task of getting DVDs to
> > work.  My test case is the new special edition Akira DVD, as a stress-
> > test of menu and subtitle handling.  I'm running the following:
> >
> > ii  libxine0       0.9.6-1        the xine video player library, [...]
> > ii  xine-ui        0.9.6-1        the xine video player, user interface
> > ii  xine-dvdnav    0.9.5.beta-1   xine DVD plugin that is capable [...]
> > ii  libdvdread2    0.9.1-5        Simple foundation for reading DVDs.
> > ii  libdvdcss0     0.0.3.ogle3-1  A portable abstraction library [...]
> >
> > I tried xine 0.9.7, but it wouldn't respond to the remote, so I
> > downgraded back.  xine-dvdnav is the 0.9.5 release from [2]; I also
> > tried CVS as of yesterday, about which more later.
> >
> > Observations:  All the menus appear to work, except the setup menu; the
> > "cursor" highlighting on the main menu doesn't appear at first, but
> > shows up when you start moving around on it.  On the setup menu, there's
> > no cursor highlighting at all.  I can navigate the menu blind using the
> > "Up/Down/Left/Right to button NN" messages and select Japanese soundtrack
> > and subtitles on.  The background audio for the setup menu switches to
> > Japanese when I select it, but when I go on to the actual movie, it
> > plays the English soundtrack, with no subtitles.  I can switch to the
> > Japanese soundtrack with the remote, but I can't get subtitles at all.
> > Otherwise, playback seems to be fine, apart from some stuttering in the
> > first few seconds as it pans up the street before the explosion.
> >
> > When I try xine-dvdnav from CVS, it's even worse.  In addition to all of
> > the above, there are some menu display problems; on the main menu, for
> > instance, the cursor highlighing is stretched and displaced to the
> > right, as though it had been scaled up on the horizontal axis.  The
> > setup menu becomes nigh impossible to navigate; the U/D/L/R buttons seem
> > to move me around at random (though that could have just been me getting
> > lost without the "Left to button N" messages).  I blundered into the THX
> > optimizer menu something like three or four times.
> >
> > Thoughts?  Suggestions?  I'll be happy to donate a DVD if it will help
> > with debugging.
> >
> > 						-sbigham
> >
> > [1] Turns out you guys were right; alsa05 really *does* suck.  Who knew?
> >     We Apologize for the Confusion.(TM)
> > [2]
> > <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dvd/xine-dvdnav-0.9.5.beta.tar.gz>
> >
> >
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