[mythtv-users] Reading DVD TOC

[David]

Paul Woodward wrote:

> Does anyone know of an existing command line tool or simple library to 
> read the list of titles, chapters (and their lengths)?
>
dvdunauthor
it reverse engineers a DVD into a dvdauthor xml file and all the vob/mpgs
tres cool.

> I want to write a wrapper script to find the title/chapter with the 
> longest run-time to fix the problem of mplayer defaulting to title 
> 1/chapter 1 when playing dvds, which isn’t the case for all the ones I 
> have.
>
But since it has to scan the entire DVD to do this it probably isn't 
very practical.
Well worth mentioning for others to play with though...

David