DVD Playback

[hollow5555]

Hey all.

I'm using GBPVR 1.3.11 (yes I know, time to upgrade. That's coming... one thing at a time), and I'm having some trouble with DVD playback. I have a DVD that a friend made for me from a DVR of some kind. It is a standard DVD (MPEG-2 audio and video streams. G-Spot confirms this). The disc plays fine on the GBPVR box with media player and VLC, but in GBPVR I get distorted video (compressed to about 1/2 height with a white flashing bar across the bottom 1/3rd of the screen). In the GBPVR config all of the DVD video and audio playback options are set to Default (in the case of video decoder DEFAULT is the only option available). I assume I'm lacking some DVD playback software or something, but I'm not sure what. Like I said, VLC and Media Player handle the DVD disc just fine, and GSpot says I have the proper codecs installed.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

[ShiningDragon]

I would install a MPEG-2 decoder like Power DVD 7.x. VLC is using it own libraries for DVD playback and don't take advantage from installed directshow filters. Windows Media Player should use the Microsoft DVD decoder. "Normally" GB-PVR would use exactly the same decoder, as Windows Media Player would do.
Is it possible, that you have Nero Burning ROM or any CoDec Package installed on your pc?

Otherwise it would be helpful, if you could post the zipped logfiles as attachement in this thread, while playback a dvd.

[hollow5555]

I installed PowerDVD as suggested and it works, but now after about 40 minutes or so GBPVR stops responding when I play dvds. The DVD keeps playing, but the remote doesn't respond and if I VNC into the GBPVR box I can't do/see anything with GBPVR. I have to remotely kill PVRx2 and then restart it before I can use it again. Any ideas?

[whurlston]

It sounds like something else is grabbing focus. If you mouse click the GBPVR window, does the remote start responding?

[hollow5555]

I can't mouse click, that's the thing. I have no keyboard/mouse on the device. I can try hooking one up, but it's a standalone box acting as a set-top device. If I vnc into the device I just get a black screen and I can't click on GBPVR. I can bring up the start bar and kill PVRx2 and restart it, then things respond, but if the DVD is playing it doesn't respond. When I kill PVRx2 there isn't anything else running, so it doesn't seem like something else is grabbing focus.

I'm attaching the logs from the time when I installed PowerDVD (earlier tonite) to now.