[vdr] Re: DVD plugin with DXR3

[Robert Sturrock <rns@unimelb.edu.au>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:59:41PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I just tried to watch a DVD with vdr-dvd-0.3.5b06 on VDR 1.3.17 with
> DXR3 and it was fairly unwatchable: jerky with loss of A/V sync. I think
> the problem may be because my system is set up for PAL but it's an NTSC
> DVD.
> 
> I hacked mplayer.sh so I could play it with MPlayer setting the DXR3 to
> NTSC mode, and it plays perfectly. So would it be possible for vdr-dvd
> to switch to NTSC output for NTSC DVDs?

I have the same problem with vdr-dvd and my DXR3, and I'm trying to
watch PAL DVDs with my system setup for PAL, so I'm not sure if that
is really the problem.  Mplayer and XINE work fine though.

Since I prefer Xine for DVD viewing (menu support etc..) I would like
to setup VDR to simply launch Xine with the right parameters when I
want to watch a DVD.  Is there any easy way to do this or would it
be necessary to write a plugin?

Cheers,

Robert.