[MPlayer-users] Mplayer -chapter command

[Nico Sabbi]

Alan wrote:

> I want to see my DVD with mplayer, and everything all right, but 
> "-chapter" don't work correctly. And it's on all my DVD. The story that:
> 1) typing "mplayer -dvd-device d:\dvd dvd://1 -chapter 1" and 
> everything works. I looked for:
>     There are 7 titles on this DVD.
>     There are 27 chapters in this DVD title.
>     There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> So, There are 27 chapters...
> 2) typing "mplayer -dvd-device d:\dvd dvd://1 -chapter 25". And... 
> mplayers very slowly load movie, but it's 1st chapter. Not 25.
> 3) Trying 20-27 chapters - the same result. Trying chapter 8 - and 
> it's 8th chapter :) good :)
> ... about "There are 7 titles on this DVD." - that's wrong. It's about 
> 1 title and 6 "broken" titles, BTW there are one movie in 1st title. 
> titles 2-6 contains 1 second black screen, and mplayer tryes to load 
> them very slowly... so on :)
> is that a bug? or I do something wrong(with chapters)? I need 
> chapters, 'cause have some problems with mencoder (they don't want to 
> read chapters too), so mencoder can't rip chapter 25, for example, 
> 'cause it's 1st chapter.
>
> I use M$ Windows XP SP2 with Mplayer dev-SVN-r20328-4.1.1 builded with 
> gcc-4.1.1 myself.


I added support for -chapter in dvdnav:// 2 days ago; try and report, 
please.
You could also try to configure mplayer with --disable-dvdnav 
--disable-mpdvdkit
and use the external dvdread; does it work correctly?