VIDEO_TS playback engine [SOLVED]

[integer]

"simplified DVD playback" is much more complicated than you think

I figured Simplified in name only.

Thanks for hearing me out and for the suggestion.

[davilla]

So far, all my test dvd's play with ff-mpeg2video except one. Getting out the rubber gloves to investigate further.

[integer]

Really appreciate you taking the time to look at this. I know dvd isn't the most popular format anymore.

For science I just tried 25 different dvds, all various sources, some iso, some video_ts, some NTSC, some PAL.

Every single one used libmpeg2, so I was having the opposite luck.

The only one that played back without "bad" deinterlacing is one that is progressive film encoded at 23.976fps with pulldown applied, so of course in this case there is nothing to actually deinterlace. It still used libmpeg2 but this one displayed the framerate as 59.94 for whatever reason. Everything else displayed 29.97fps or 25fps in the playback statistics.

The one I tried yesterday that has no menus does use ff-mpeg2video though.

[cosmoxl]

So far, all my test dvd's play with ff-mpeg2video except one. Getting out the rubber gloves to investigate further.

could the server type be effecting the decoder decision?

[davilla]

So far, all my test dvd's play with ff-mpeg2video except one. Getting out the rubber gloves to investigate further.

could the server type be effecting the decoder decision?

Nope, the troublesome one even failed using libmpeg2, it's a libdvd issue.

[integer]

As a workaround I have been doing a binary file join on the main movie VOB set, playing that, then deleting when done. Works fine, just some extra steps for the watching process. Looks infinitely better using ff-mpeg2video instead of libmpeg2.

[davilla]

mpeg2 is using ff-mpeg2video now in v3.9.7 (in testflight). it's been there a few weeks now.