MPeg Decoder Suggestion

[maksa]

Jdobbs, I am just a lowly RF hardware engineer, but when thinking about subtitle problems and some freezes, it came to mind that MPEG2Dec loosing frames may cause these incosistencies. If some frames are missing, maybe some time stamps are not read correctly and some stand-alones getting confused. Do you plan switching to MPEG2DecDG or even DGdecoder?
Just my 2c, even if that much.

[Joergen]

mpeg2dec3dg.dll has been the only one to use with DVD-RB from day one. Framedrops of the old versions are even warned in the readme.txt.

But as with all software that depends on other tools, people keep coming here with avisynth 1.3 installed and complain about problems.

[jdobbs]

I don't think loosing frames could cause subtitle problems. I also don't think there are any frames being lost because I've done extensive testing on that front ever since DG posted his first observations on the subject (months before the first DVD-RB beta was ever released)... but you never know.

[maksa]

I just noticed that we are using MPEG2dec3dg all the time. Got confused!
Yeah, subtitles are tricky. Just for the reference, I have Ronin 807 (no name - it was Daenix 807 before I put firmware patch) player and it will play almost anything that you put in (WMA, MP3, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, MPEG1, MPEG2, Kodak, JPEG, CD Audio etc). And sure enough, never had problem with subtitles. Bought Toshiba combo DVD/VCR SVDVD-3E, and one movie (NTSC Odissey 2001 with DVDRB0.47 and CCE2.5) won't play titles, even if Noname does. Other movie (PAL Clockwork Orange, same setup) plays subtitles on both - by now you know I like Kubrick...he, he! So if it is only DVDRB bug, how come same player, 2 different movies (only difference PAL/NTSC) and one play and the other one doesn't.