[DVDnav-discuss] Problem with DVD

[Cédric Macquat]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:28:22AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> Old thread but .....

But still active for me ;-).

> Which track to play could also vary by which version of the disc you
> get in rental vs purchase.  The discs you get from Netflix or Red Box
> are starting to have no extras on them in order to encourage folks who
> want to watch those to buy rather than rent.
> 
> 
> For the case when I watched it via rental it was track 68, if my
> command line history is correct.
> 
> 
> The way that I usually figure out which track it is is to use xine.
> On my Linux box, DVDs get mounted as /media/cdrom.  If I use xine
> dvd:/media/cdrom (instead of xine dvd:/dev/dvd), it displays the
> track.  In theory you could do the same with mplayer dvdnav:  and
> navigate to the feature but the output is a lot noisier.

Thank you for your suggestion. It works for me! But I have to choose
verbose mode for mplayer. I tried with a dvd player and I know the title
is 31. With

$ mplayer -dvd-device /dev/sr0 dvdnav://

I only see somewhere

DVDNAV, switched to title: 8
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (5.1) language: fr aid: 129.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: fr
subtitle ( sid ): 4 language: nl
subtitle ( sid ): 6 language: fr

I don't know what is title 8, perhaps the menu. If I do


$ mplayer -dvd-device /dev/sr0 -v dvdnav://

I get:

DVDNAV, switched to title: 8
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (5.1) language: fr aid: 129.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: fr
subtitle ( sid ): 4 language: nl
subtitle ( sid ): 6 language: fr


DVDNAV, NEW TITLE 31
  {ERROR5,c=0}  
MPEG Stream reached EOF


and I know 31 is the right title! Good trick, Thank you!!