[MPlayer-users] Request for more verbose information from dvds

[Chris Phillips]

> > I know that the cropdetect option give out suitable information for 
> > parsing, so that's great, and it's easy to get information on what 
> > languages are present in a title etc. but it would really be great to be 
> > able to get some more information about a dvd from mplayer itself, and not
> > need to use vstrip of similar apps.
> 
> you should check ifo_dump, from libdvdread package
> it prints as many info as it can from the .ifo file, in a parseable format

A'rpi, you're the man! I really hate that though, when i have an app 
already on my system that i never knew about! yeah, that *seems* to 
actually provide everything i would want right now... i guess theres just 
no other information possible though! It's still presumably a case of 
looping the application through possible ifo numbers until an error is 
reached, not too nice, but nevermind!

It would still be nice to access this information with a default 
installation of mplayer and nothing else, but libdvdread is certainly a 
much more attractive prospect that vstrip.

I'm still not aware of a decent ripping GUI for linux, maybe i'll actually 
do something serious abuot this, maybe not...

brilliant, i owe you one (hmm, maybe i should just pay you back by not 
posting to here :))

Chris
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