[MPlayer-users] Getting information about a DVD with mplayer

[Nico Sabbi]

Velko Hristov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a small ripping GUI based around mplayer/mencoder. I use
> mplayer with "-v -identify -frames 0" to get information about the
> movie.
> 
> I was wondering is there a way to get information about single chapters
> in a title? Now I get only their count and cumulative length (the
> title length). But not the length of single chapters.
> 
> Or is it possible to add a command line option which outputs a lot of
> well structured information about a medium (file, DVD, VCD, stream) in a
> way suitable for parsing?
> 
mplayer -identify dvd:// and
ifo_dump <path_to_vobs> <title_no>
will give you the informations you need