[MPlayer-users] DVD Menu Support

[Wesley Belk]

Thanks for the reply.  I am very excited to hear that.  I mentioned
the inclusion of libdvdnav to the authors of Geexbox about a month
ago, but was told that libdvdnav was incompatible with mplayer.  I
know that libdvdnav has already been incorporated into Xine and I look
forward to using it in Mplayer.

Wesley

On 6/12/05, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Wesley Belk <wbelk7777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The reason that I ask is that I am a big fan of the Geexbox Project.
> > Here is a link to their site for those unfamiliar with the Geexbox
> > Project.  http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html  As many of you know
> > Geexbox is a bootable Linux distribution built around Mplayer and  the
> > inclusion of DVD menu support in Geexbox is likely to be based on its
> > inclusion in Mplayer.  I agree that Xine and VLC are both good media
> > players, in fact I use VLC to watch some of my Replaytv's recordings.
> > I would like to see Geexbox adopt a player that can play DVDs with
> > menu support, but one of the goals of the Geexbox project is to remain
> > small (right now around 6MB) and also it does not include xfree86 so
> > that would leave out Xine and VLC.
> >
> >
> > Wesley
> >
> 
> For DVD menu support to be added to mplayer would probably mean using libdvdnav.
> The current libdvdnav is not really suitable for the mplayer
> architecture, so should not be used in it's current form.
> 
> I am one of the authors of libdvdnav and I have plans to reorganise
> libdvdnav so that it would be suitable for inclusion into mplayer. The
> problem is that I don't seem to have enough time to do the work.
> 
> James
>