[MPlayer-users] stupid dvd question.

[The Wanderer]

Daniele Forghieri wrote:

> Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
>>> That *isn't* necessarily a good idea, actually. What about
>>> multi-episode DVDs of TV series, for example - or movies which
>>> are actually separated properly into jump-to-able chapters? The
>>> longest track is *not* necessarily the one which the user is most
>>> likely to want to watch, and in point of fact unless multiple
>>> chapters are in fact not used at all I don't think I can think of
>>> a time when it *would* be...
>> 
>> If such a feature were implimented, I am sure it would be an
>> option.
>>
>> mplayer -playlongesttrack dvd://1
> 
> I prefer something like
> 
>    mplayer dvd://-1
> 
> and, if there are some track that differs in lenght of less than,
> say, 2 minutes let the user decide, e.g.
> 
>    mplayer dvd://-1
>    ....
>    1. track  2:   42:20:30
>    2. track  3:   42:10:20
>    3. track  4:   41:58:32
>    4. track  5:   42:06:20
> 
>    1-4:select track to play,  0:exit

That sounds like about the right way to do it, syntax-wise - except that
(by the way MPlayer currently does things) it would actually report the
list of "longest" chapters and then *exit*, rather than sitting there at
some kind of menu. The user would then be able to enter the desired
chapter number in place of the -1.

It might also be desirable to be able to specify, say, -2 (or maybe ?,
or similar), and get a list with lengths (and possibly other available
information) of *all* of the chapters by number.

Hmm. This sounds interesting, and potentially within the bounds of my
ability to actually do; if no one else picks up on this, I may just have
a look at it myself.

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