[mythtv-users] usability request for mythDVD: optionally manual chapter selection

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Sun Nov 16 22:41:37 EST 2003


On Nov 16, 2003, at 10:48, Joachim Gehweiler wrote:

> after testing with different DVD's from my video-tape library, I 
> noticed that mplayer does NOT automatically recognize the chapters of 
> the movie in many cases - the result is, that mostly you see the movie 
> (without that rubbish before and after it), but also quite often you 
> only see this first disclaimer chapter and not the movie itself.
>
> A simple workaround would be to force mplayer to play all the 
> chapters, but this would not be a real solution because it also plays 
> the unwanted chapters on DVD's where it can recognize them.
>
> My suggestion is to add a menu with all available chapters before 
> starting playback; if the chapters with the movie can be recognized, 
> it would be a good idea to preselect them, so that you just have to 
> hit enter/space to start playback, whereas in case that it cannot be 
> recognized you have the chance to manually select the chapters you'd 
> like to see.

All MythDVD does is launch an application capable of playing DVDs. 
You're launching mplayer, which doesn't have DVD menu support. Try 
switching to either xine or ogle, which do support menus.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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