[mythtv-users] navigating dvd menus

[Brian Wood]

On Sunday 31 January 2010 09:04:49 am Yan Seiner wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 January 2010 08:46:31 am Yan Seiner wrote:
> >> Does anyone know of a utility that dumps a dvd menu structure in a way
> >> that can be easily processed by a shell script?
> >>
> >> I'm trying to find a way to identify the title that gets played when the
> >> user selects the "main feature" or "play feature" using a CLI script.
> >
> > The traditional wisdom is to simply select the longest file, it's correct
> > 99% of the time.
> 
> That's what I'm doing now; the problem is that some of the newer DVDs
> seem to be catching on and creating dozens of nearly-identical length
> titles.  This has to be some sleight-of-hand as you can't fit 41 90+
> minute features onto a single DVD but that's what I'm seeing.  I'd love
> to get a look at the menu structure that sets this up.

I haven't run into that, but I rarely watch the newer movies.

It does seem like a logical method of defeating DVD rippers. Sort of like the 
hopping around to avoid deliberately bad sectors on the disk.

Does Handbrake handle these disks? I think it follows the menu in some way.