[MPlayer-users] Experimental DVDNav: little help?

[Alexander Roalter]

Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> Mplayer is a fantastic software package.  I set out to remedy its sole 
> shortcoming, failure to natively handle DVD menus, by installing the 
> dvdnav patch marked 'experimental' and linked to from the mplayer 
> homepage, here:
> 
> http://dcxx.fw.hu/
> 
> I downloaded the latest source (pre8), applied the patches (some had to be 
> manually applied; details available if interest) and behold! When I run 
> 'mplayer dvdnav://' I get the dvd menu! kudos!
> 
> The only problem: what do I do with it?  The mouse buttons don't work, and 
> I couldn't find any keybindings that allow me to select from the menu 
> options.  Having DVD menu support doesn't seem to be particularly useful 
> if the user cannot interact with the menu.
> 
> Forgive me if this is a vague question, but is there something I've missed 
> here?  I didn't apply the gui patch since I never run with the gui (also, 
> that patch was labeled as 'optional').. is there some other way to 
> interact with the menu, or to bind keys to the menu interface?
> 
It should be in the READMEs or Docs, 'M' is the menu, 'S' select, KLJH 
are for some movement in the menu (i always forget which is what) other 
than that I don't need anymore.

Still one problem stays: when playing over chapter marks, it stutters 
(as I use it only to play copy-protected DVDs (with arbitrarily 
defective sectors and some inline-commands to steer around them, which 
the normal mplayer dvd playing software does not handle well :(, not the 
CSS thing). Already experimented with cache and some other things, but 
still no result. And to make things worse, dumping it won't work either, 
as only the intro video is dumped over and over again...