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

[Frederik Holljen]

On 11/12/2008, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:
> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>  > On Thursday 11 December 2008 09:42:36 Frederik Holljen wrote:
>  >> I'm still a bit uncertain where the true problem lies in this case
>  >> so I've narrowed it down to this question:
>  >>
>  >> Does dvdnav offer the same functionality as dvdread in terms of
>  >> reading one single title (and no more, not jumping back into menus
>  >> or anything) while still running the dvd-vm so that "crippled"
>  >> DVD's will work?
>  >
>  > not dvdnav (IIRC), but it's very easy to implement: look at
>  > mplayer's stream/stream_dvdnav.c
>
>
> I'm not 100% sure anymore, but wasn't it so that playing a title with
>  dvdnav resulted in playing the title plus the next title in the chain
>  (usually the menu), but using -dumpstream only the title was dumped and
>  then exited?
>
>  If so, this functionality is only a mplayer one (IIRC in earlier times
>  -dumpstream on dvdnav did deliver a huge output stream of e.g. the main
>  menu playing again and again), but this is not anymore the case, but it
>  might well be that the dumping features of VLC do not offer this.

If this is the case then it confirms my suspicions that this is a vlc
problem and not a dvdread/dvdnav problem. I'll explain my problem to
them and see what happens.

Cheers,
Frederik