[MPlayer-users] re: DVD menus

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On 12. May 2004 at 8:51AM -0400,
"Erik K. Pedersen" <erik at binghamton.edu> wrote:

> Onsdag 12 maj 2004 09:51 skrev Tate Austin:

> > 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

Most of the titles.  The last time I had a DVD, I couldn't get
mplayer to play the mpeg stream contained in the menu.  Some
fancy menus (Spider and Matrix) are like movie trailers.  You're
shown a little sequence (or animation) before you get to the
selections.