vlc 0.2.83/CVS plays dvd only partial

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

[no response to this in vlc until yesterday. resend to vlc-devel now]

First of all, hello and a big thank you to everybody involved.

[common header]
vlc is the first DVD player, which worked partly for me under Linux/ia32. 
This is far more, than most of the others players, I tested until now.
[\common header]

Both, release version 0.2.83 and yesterdays CVS is able to play the first 
23 min. of my abyss dvd. Playing stops always at end of chapter 11.
The dvd contains two streams, 1st with 54 chapters, the other with 45.
Trying to go to further chapters fails, no matter which stream.

this is the abyss dvd layout:
hp at elfe:~> l /cdrom/video_ts/ 
insgesamt 7842009
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        12288 Okt 28  2000 video_ts.bup*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        12288 Okt 28  2000 video_ts.ifo*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       212992 Okt 28  2000 video_ts.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       190464 Okt 28  2000 vts_01_0.bup*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       190464 Okt 28  2000 vts_01_0.ifo*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     196784128 Okt 28  2000 vts_01_0.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     1073739776 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_1.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     1073739776 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_2.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     1073739776 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_3.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     669685760 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_4.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     1073739776 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_5.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     1073739776 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_6.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     1073739776 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_7.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     661004288 Okt 27  2000 vts_01_8.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        18432 Okt 28  2000 vts_02_0.bup*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        18432 Okt 28  2000 vts_02_0.ifo*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     43798528 Okt 28  2000 vts_02_0.vob*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       143360 Okt 27  2000 vts_02_1.vob*

May be this shows the crux:
dvd info: title: 1
    vobstart at: 96608 blocks
    stream size: 574000 blocks
    number of chapters: 54
    number of angles: 1
dvd info: video
    compression: mpeg-2
    tv system: pal 625/50 Hz
    aspect ratio: 4:3
    display mode: not specified
    line21-1: 
    line21-2: 
    source res: 720x480 ntsc or 720x576 pal
    letterboxed: no
    mode: camera

The stream size seems to be related to one file. The slider is scaled to 
23 min. I assume, under normal conditions, the slider scales to the full 
playtime, not the length of the current file, or is it intended behaviour
of current implementation?

The only other point are regular horizontal distortions in strong moving 
parts of the screen, independant from output and display mode.
sld, xvideo, x11, fullscreen, window tested.

As you may know, some configuration entries are not available/saved
in gnome-vlc (default video output, etc).

Hardware: AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz, 384 MB, Matrox G400 DH/32 MB
SuSE 7.2, Linux 2.4.5, XFree86 4.0.3, dri, xvideo, v4l

The usual provide-further-details-on-request applies.

Cheers,
Hans-Peter