From: John G. <jgr...@te...> - 2001-12-24 13:29:28
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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> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xine-user mailing list > > xin...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xine-user > > > _______________________________________________ > xine-user mailing list > xin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xine-user |