[DVDnav-discuss] Is it possible to work around `PTT search table too small.`?

[Fabian Keil]

Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 24.04.2013, 11:26 +0200 schrieb Fabian Keil:
> > Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > with the True Grit DVD (region 2) I am seeing the following error
> > > message using `dvdbackup -M …`.
> > > 
> > >     libdvdread: PTT search table too small.
> > > 
> > > Others also seem to have that problem [1].
> > > 
> > > That is exactly the DVD from which this code originates from to fix a
> > > segmentation fault [2]. The code was added in revision 1232.
> > [...] 
> > > Unfortunately even after reading `libdvdnav/doc/dvd_structures` I have
> > > no idea what the PTT (part of title track) actually does. Clueless as I
> > > am, I did
> > > 
> > >         (gdb) p vts_ptt_srpt->nr_of_srpts = 24
> > >         $4 = 24
> > > 
> > > but that resulted in a wrong image, as the folder the DVD was copied to
> > > had a size greater than 19 GB, which is not right. I saw a lot of
> > > »Filling up blocks(?)« messages – which I cannot find in the source, as
> > > I used German local and do not have access to the system right now.
> > 
> > You could try the dvdbackup patch set described at:
> > http://www.fabiankeil.de/gehacktes/dvd-duplicate-detector/
> 
> Wow, thanks for the pointer. Did you sent these already for upstream
> inclusion?

I sorta joined upstream last year after sending the first couple of patches.

Currently the main blocker for the patch inclusion is me being thoroughly
disgusted by bzr. I intent to work on this in the near future ...

> > I don't remember any problems ripping "True Grit" (RC2) with it.
> 
> That sounds promising!
> 
> I am going to test hopefully over the weekend.

Please let me know if it doesn't work, as it would probably indicate
a regression in my patches.

Fabian
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