[mythtv-users] menu support for dvd playback?

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Sat Oct 11 19:45:20 EDT 2003


> --- Neil Camp <ncamp at geekster.org> wrote:
>> Just a quick question, does anyone know how to get
>> dvd menus to work in
>> dvd playback? I have been looking through mplayer
>> docs and I am a little
>> lost at the moment.

On Saturday, Oct 11, 2003, at 14:21 US/Pacific, Joe Votour wrote:

> Unfortunately, mplayer doesn't support DVD menus
> (well, it's not a supported feature).
>
> According to the mplayer documentation, if you link in
> libdvdnav (I think that's the name), then you can
> supposedly get it to work, but the mplayer team
> recommends againast it (the mplayer stubs to drive it
> are unfinished and likely to cause problems).  I tried
> it, and couldn't get it to work (although it's
> possible I messed something up, I didn't really give
> it much effort).
>
> Previous messages on the mailing list indicate that
> ogle plays well with MythDVD, and it supports the DVD
> menus.  Xine might work also (I haven't tried either
> of them though).

I can confirm that both Ogle, and Xine (with the right libraries, as 
Joe mentions) work with DVD menus.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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