[DVDnav-discuss] Strange DVD playback skip/freeze

[Roger Pack]

On 4/28/14, Tuomo Sipola <tuomo.sipola at iki.fi> wrote:
> 28.04.2014 19:54, Roger Pack wrote:
>> Hmm looks like some type of split between cells or something...though
>> I don't really know what I'm talking about.
>>
>> If there is a long pause within both VLC (did you try nightlites/git
>> master?) and mplayer then you and I both imagine that it's some type
>> of weirdness in libdvdnav...hmm...
>> Anyway I'm out of ideas, anybody else want to handle this one?
>
> My guess is that the video stream itself is corrupted, i.e., that they
> saved a corrupt file on the DVD because, as I stated, I tested with
> another physical DVD box that I bought. Or maybe this is something that
> might work on a DVD player but not on my computer, I haven't tested.
>
> I currently have newest stable builds. VLC freezes for a long time
> (earlier versions had blocks on the screen and skipped to the next
> chapter). Mplayer shows the blocks and skips to the next chapter. I am
> not sure if this is a libdvdnav problem or a problem with the players or
> codecs or whatever.

Do commercial DVD software play it ok?