[MPlayer-users] LOTR DVD playback problem

[Roberto De Leo]

Hi,
I'm trying to watch the italian DVD version of LOTR [the standard 
edition, not the extended one] and regularly at the same point [during 
the Elrond council] the playback stops abrutply.

MPlayer does not crash but the image stays still while the CD seems to 
look for ever and ever for something it does not find.
I tried also with ogle on Linux and with the ATI Window$ DVD player on 
win98 getting always the same behaviour.
Choosing a chapter after Elrond's council does not help because in that 
case the movie just doesn't start.
Using the -ss option in mplayer does not do any good either.

When I tried on a Hi-Fi DVD player, at the "bad" point it stopped for a 
second but then it moved on and the playback was perfect, so it does not 
seem a disc problem [and no scratch is visible on the disc surface].
The only thing I found out about the disc is that it seems to be a 
UDF-only disc.

Any idea? Which kind of debug info do you need for this kind of bug?
Thanks,
 Roberto De Leo