[vlc] Re: Hickup on DVD playing Star Wars Episode 1,2 and 3

[Ed Tillman]

Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first post, and I hope this is the right place.
>
> Playing the Star Wars Episode (1,2 or 3) DVDs causes a small "hickup"
> during the first scene. Title 1, Chapter 3. On Episode 3 it is the
> change from the star scene where the sun comes up. The film briefly
> stops and continues to play maybe 1 second later. It seems as if the
> movie is continuing in the timeline but is not displaying anything.
>
> This happens each and every time at the same position. I am using the
> german releases of the Star Wars DVDs, but suspect the same to happen on
> other languages.
>
> The following switches do not change this:
> * fullscreen
> * audio-track
> * skip-frames
>
> This happens on Windows 2000 and XP (with 0.8.5) and Ubuntu (with
> 0.8.4). Different machines show the same problem. It does not matter,
> whether or not the DVD is backed up (using dvdbackup) before onto a hard
> disk and played from there, or the DVD is played directly from the
> media. I am using libdvdnav4 in version 0.1.9-3, libdvdread3 v0.9.4-5,
> libdvdcss2 v1.2.9-0sarge0.0 on Ubuntu.
>
> Apart from the above scene, it happens every now and then, that the
> display stops for a moment (up to 15 seconds) before displaying
> something again.
>
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated. If you need more information,
> let me know.
>   
I've run into the same problem playing "The League of Extraordinary 
Gentlemen," but *not* on "Good Morning, Vietnam."  Go figure...  Eh?

StarChild

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