[MPlayer-dev-eng] nice info ;)

Tim U. mplayer at tetro.net
Fri Feb 22 02:52:05 CET 2002


Maybe someone could figure out how WMP generates that fingerprint 
from a DVD, and then create an open source library which can 
query windowsmedia.com's database, and maybe even convert it to 
a different format and upload it to some open DVD database.


On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:52:37PM +1300, dan carter wrote:
> Mike Melanson wrote:
> 
> >	Seriously, though, are there any open source, online databases
> >that are essentially the DVD analog of the CDDB? Would this type of thing
> >even be useful? I don't know much about DVDs, but I thought they would
> >already carry information like title and chapter information in a table of
> >contents somewhere.
> 
> Yes there is.  I think i encoutnered it when i tried to use xine, i 
> found their database lookup thing to be the coolest feature.  Pity it 
> wouldn't actually play without segfaulting... but that was a long time ago.
> 
> I might be mistaken about which media player had that feature though... 
> And with a quick google search i can't find a link for the actuall 
> database...
> 
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