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All testing was conducted on Beta 2, never tried Beta 1.
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d4rk
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I've noticed the issue but haven't had a chance to investigate it properly.
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Oddly enough, the trick worked with The Incredibles DVD here (region 4 DVD)... Also worked with ALL Disney titles I tried.
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Has anyone looked into the problem?
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Hey all,
because I'am experiencing similar problems I thought I might add something to this thread.
The systems I am using XBMC on is an iMac with Leo 10.5.6 and an Apple TV firmware 2.3. I (obviously) have XBMC installed on both and get kind of the same behaviour when playing (CSS encrypted) Video-DVDs.
If I start XBMC with a DVD inserted (I use the PM3 skin) I get the little "DVD play button" down on the right corner. When I press that button I get the language selection screen (DVD is a region 2 "Van Helsing") and after that it goes straight back to the menu. In my home folder it was creating a new folder in the .dvdcss folder for that DVD. What I did on my iMac was to start the apple DVDPlayer software and there it was plaing the DVD without problems. So I thought why no try it again in XBMC and what can I say now it's plaing the DVD but very choppy and blocky. Out of curiosity I deleted the subfolder in the .dvdcss folder and started the DVD playback in XBMC again and no more choppy playback just the way it should be!
Changing to another DVD I have to do the same thing again (first starting to play it with DVDPlayer and then in XBMC).
I get the same behaviour on my Apple TV (with an external DVD drive attached) just using nitoTV instead of DVDPlayer soft.
All the Video-DVDs are purchased originals (region 2).
So you might say, well you have a backup solution on both systems... that's true, but especially on the Apple TV I would rather use XBMC for playback because it is much more comfortable than nitoTV in my opinion.
To me it seems that both DVDPlayer and nitoTV which don't use libdvdcss (correct?) somehow change something so that the DVD can be read differently (or read properly at all) which can be seen in the fact that after playing a DVD with either, XBMC or the respective lib reads the CSS Keys differently.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge in DVD de/encryption is willing to take a look at this with me. Just tell me what more info you might need.
Cheers,
Juergen
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davilla
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Playing real DVDs on XBMC for Mac has been borked from day one. If you first play the DVD using the Apple DVDPlayer, it seems to work but that's not a solution.
This issue is under active debugging right now, been working on it the last few days.
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2009-02-26, 21:38
That's great to hear! If I can be of any help just let me know.
Cheers,
Juergen
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I couldn't play DVDs in XBMC until I set the region, which I had to do with Mac OS X's built-in DVD player. After that, they played fine.