[MPlayer-users] Compiling current SVN with dvdnav support (and some other issues)

[Nico Sabbi]

Alexander Roalter wrote:

>In order to play the Sony's Arccos-Protected DVD I need dvdnav://, which 
>plays these DVDs rather well, but I don't seem to be able to compile it 
>again with current SVN.
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>My last working copy is SNV 22963, with current 23561 it is not possible 
>to compile it as I did before. I have installed libdvdcss 1.2.9 in my 
>system externally (as was suggested on this list time ago) to make it 
>work with libdvdnav, which version is 0.1.10.
>
>When doing configure in mplayer, dvdnav is not detected, as the test for 
>dvdnav-config --version --minilibs is not understood by dvdnav-config, 
>and so this check does not go through. Removing the --minilibs there, 
>dvdnav is detected, but compile fails at the last stage (when linking 
>mplayer)
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>Is there something I'm doing wrong?
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you need dvdnav from svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/dvdnav/trunk/libdvdnav

>Which version of dvdnav resp. dvdcss should be installed globally and 
>which have to be left internally in mplayer (as with libdvdread?)
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better using the external dvdread (0.9.6)

>Is there a recipe of some sort to make this working?
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svn update :)

>On the other hand, I know subtitle support for DVDs is still lacking at 
>a great deal, but is there some possibility to get these improved:
>* Subtitle colors are somewhat off with DVDNAV (but not only). Is there 
>a way to correctly refer to a palette (either externally or 
>automatically in the appropriate IFO)?
>* And there are still some issues with multi-angle and subtitles, as 
>they appear altogether within one angle, which makes it ATM impossible 
>to watch star wars with the correct subtitles (those foreign speeches) 
>as everything is mixed up.
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?? I have SWIII and I don't have problems with subtitles.
Elaborate, please

>* within DVDnav mode, the lenght of the video is always 0 seconds 
>(displayed in the OSD)
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no, only in certain menus, but not when playing titles

>* with or withouth DVDnav, is there a possibility to switch between the 
>current mpeg timestamp (which is sometimes restarted when at the layer 
>break) and the real timestamp, i.e. when the timestamp goes to 0 after 
>being somewhat other then zero, simply add these two???
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the osd always shows the timestamp read from the IFOs
(thus it doesn't reset except at title boundaries)

>* with -af xxxx, *any* filter applied thereafter breaks mplayer when the 
># key is pressed, thus making it impossible to switch audio channels 
>during playback.
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sadly...

>* I'm using dvdnav not for the menus, but for the working playback on 
>the copy-protected discs. Is there any way this behavior could be 
>implemented in the normal dvd playback mode, as I like its debug output 
>much better (esp. the audio tracks/formats and subtitle listing).
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no, it would mean duplicating the VM in dvdnav. You could help us 
improve the
the debug output instead

>* why cannot the audio track listing above tell on a AC3-2.0 soundtrack 
>immediately if it is stereo or surround (I have to play it with -v to 
>get this information. And
>* is there a way to automatically turn on surround decoding (on 2.0 
>surround material) and having it off all the other times
>
>... just a few questions, simply answer to any one of them you have some 
>insight into (or have some valid point for declaring it rubbish).
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