[MPlayer-users] libdvdplay 1.0.0 released

[Karol Pietrzak]

On Monday 03 February 2003 19:47, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> IMO the lack of DVD menu nonsense is the #1 advantage of MPlayer over
> the competition. :)

Are you serious?? Is this is the position of the developers?

A few days ago, I was talking about the advantages of MPlayer as a DVD 
player, and I brought up the fact that MPlayer is one of the few 
players which supports CC subtitles (not only that, but can anti-alias 
them...).  Using the arrow keys for navigation is golden and so handy 
(IIRC, Ogle will soon implement a feature to mimic this).

But, then, a friend of mine brought over a DVD and said: "Pull up the 
menu: I want show you a cool interview"  My reply was: "Err.. my DVD 
player doesn't support DVD menus..."  "Then it sucks," was the reply, 
and appriopriately so.

With many DVDs now having >20 titles and a dozen chapters for each 
title, what the hell am I supposed to do to find, say, the bonus 
interview or music video?  Manually scroll through each title?  (Hm.. 
maybe it's on Title 15, Chapter 6... nope...).

I have in my hands a DVD on which MPlayer never gets past Title 1; I 
have to manully select Title 3 each time I pop in the DVD.  Using the 
DVD menu obliviates for that.

What if I want to play a certain episode on a Simpsons DVD?  Am I 
supposed to keep hitting ">" to change the title/chapter and then the 
UP arrow twice to see what episode it is, and then repeat again and 
again??  [As a joke, that same friend asked a few days later whether 
mplayer could seek in an AVI...]

DVD menus are a very important feature to me, and anyone else I know 
that watches DVDs.  Any player that does not support them is ignored.

For this reason (and -only- this reason), I have completely abandoned 
MPlayer in favor of Ogle for watching DVDs.

-- 
Karol Pietrzak <The_Alchemist at earthlink.net>
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