Comment 6 for bug 288816

This appears to have been fixed in the trunk of MythTV ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5630 ), but for now could we just add an option like "-menu-startup" to bypass the problematic part of the playback?

I just tried playing back a DVD in Mythbuntu 9.04 beta and it froze up in MythTV and I had to kill the frontend, but the same DVD played just fine in mplayer, vlc, and xine when I loaded it up manually so I think that some sort of work around like this would be a good idea.