[DVDnav-discuss] DVD works with dvdnav but not with dvdread

[Frederik Holljen]

On 10/12/2008, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> 'lo,
>
>  On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00:42AM +0100, Frederik Holljen wrote :
>
> > Originally I tried to convert the dvd titles using dvdnav (or simply
>  > dvd:// in vlc) since that works better with DVD's like the one I
>  > currenly have. However I had the following issues:
>  > - Sometimes converting would continue forever because it would rip the
>  > DVD menu until the end of time after the completion of the requested
>  > title.
>
> Yes, you shouldn't use dvd:// for converting/ripping but dvdsimple://
>  or you need to tweak the correct title when opening.
But we already established that using dvd:// will not work with these
"crippled" dvd's so that's not really an option.
If you by "tweaking the title" mean setting the correct title with @
on the command line, that's what I'm doing. I still have the
"indefinite" ripping problem when doing that.

>  > - Some titles have the timing completely off. E.g it will start on 60
>  > seconds and end 60 seconds after the length of the title. This makes
>  > it hard to make progress bars etc.
>
> VLC bug, I think... Not sure though.
Ok, I'll open a ticket for this.

Cheers,
Frederik