Re: [xine-user] Re: Xine bug report

[Toby J. <to...@ea...>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:08:13AM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> Hi Dan,

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Dan Gray wrote:

> >  I think i've found a bug in xine, is shows up thus...

> >  When playing some dvds with two audio channels (one of film dialogue, one
> > of producers notes) no matter which audio channel I select the movie will
> > play as normal until a place where, on the producers channel, there is
> > some audio. The video will then pause and a tiny snippet of the producers
> > channel (let's call it channel 2) will play. Then video will restart for a
> > fraction of a second with the correct audio before pausing again and
> > letting me hear a fraction of channel 2. This continues until all of that
> > section of channel 2 has been played and then video continues as normal
> > until the next time channel 2 has some commentary on it, then goto start
> > of problem!

> Well, that sounds like you'r playing a multi-angle DVD, which xine
> currently doesn't support and possibly never will support as that
> requires ifo parsing.

On the other hand... if you were to expand xine with a css plugin that
did some basic IFO parsing, it might work.

http://www.kuroyi.net/xine/xine_dvd_libcss_plugin-clut.tar.gz

>  (Yes, it's not exactly multiple angles, but quite a few DVDs are
>  coded like this and I don't know any other reason for this behavior.)

I've noticed that the input_dvd.c code in xine 0.4.0 has this effect
with mutliple angle dvds, it never happenned before.

> >  I would be happy to provide any debugging information you may need.

> You could tell us the DVD title, or optimally provide a few megs of the
> stream that causes this.

I get it in The Matrix in the scene where they destroy the walls in the
ground floor of the tower block with excessive firepower.

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