I posted this last November,
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67931.msg456882#msg456882but it was during Thanksgiving vacation and the smart people were off that week
I'm reposting now in hopes of finding some help. MC 15 and most of (maybe all) of the v16 releases had great FF, Reverse, and skip-to behavior while playing DVDs ripped to VOBs in a single directory. Now, from the first release of v17 I tried (around 17.3 something) I have the following problems:
I have checked about 20 DVDs, all ripped to VOBs (over a 3 year period by DVDFab), and I get the same behavior consistently with all DVDs played. The video and audio quality of the playing movie are exceptional, moving around to different points in the movie is almost impossible.
I tried several things:
1) Chapters: skip forward or back worked consistently for me.
2) FF worked @ 5x, Rew mostly worked @ 5x, but if I started Rew right at a chapter, it looked like it skipped to the beginning of the previous chapter.
3) Fast forward (5x) shows smooth speed-ed up video motion without sound. Rew (5x) shows frozen video while the time index skips backward at ≈ 60 sec intervals. The movie starts instantly when play is pressed without any vid/audio sync issues.
4) FF @ 20x would always hang, Rev @ 20x actually worked a time or two, but usually hangs.
5) My time skips are set to 1:00 min forward & 15 sec backward.
When I do a single skip forward the video goes forward to what looks like the proper point and stops, there are no sounds or noises.
Waiting doesn't help, but if I pause it, then press play, the video will start and about a second later, the sound starts & they are in sync.
Also, if I drag the position indicator at the top of the screen to a new location, I get exactly the same behavior as skip forward/backward.
6) The behaviors described above have occurred consistently with every DVD I played.
7) All of the above functions are working as they should when Mpeg 2 and .ts files are played (recorded analog and HD TV, and ripped Blurays).