vlc 0.2.83/CVS plays dvd only partial

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

I hate to reply myself, but just one question: What's wrong with my 
message below? Do you use any codex I'm not aware of?

Hans-Peter

On Wednesday, 5. September 2001 19:51, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> [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