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

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 18:11:58 Alexander Roalter 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.

you don't remember correctly: when a title or a chapter range is
selected the stream reader stops providing data when said title
or chapter range ends, thus both -dumpstream and the ordinary
playback exit