[MPlayer-users] Re: re: DVD menus

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:31:40PM -0400, Tate Austin wrote:
> >> It seems to me without menus I simply don't have access to certain content.
> >>  Menus are part of DVDs, so why the contention?  At the very least make it
> >> a flag we can disabe if we feel comfortable without them.  But I have
> >> several DVDs that mplayer simply will not play because the creators assumed
> >> people would be using their navigation.  Seems to me we don't even need the
> >> mouse interactivity, arrow keys and enter would work.  Heck, couldn't we
> >> spice Ogle's menu system into mplayers?  (or would the licenses make that
> >> unethical)?
> 
> >This is nonsense, mplayer dvd://1 mplayer dvd://2 etc goes through the titles
> 
> That approach does not work. The Title navigation on many DVDs
> (Buffy the Vampire Slayer for example) is simply not layed out like
> that. Title 2 picks up in the middle of the first episode on hte
> disc for instance. It's a shame all discs aren't layed out well, but
> they aren't. I think mplayer is an amazing piece of software, it's
> playback is really nice and I think if it had DVD menus it could
> really be the king of all media players.

DVD menus aren't the answer, since you can't exactly encode from a
menu! The solution is hacks to figure out the right things to do using
the data in the menus, without actually making the user navigate the
stupid menus...

Rich