[MPlayer-users] Seek and chapter

[Alexander Roalter]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il Friday 09 November 2007 15:40:38 Alexander Roalter ha scritto:
> 
>> If I take one arbitrary DVD of mine, I get the following chapter
>> list:
>>
>> CHAPTERS: CHAPTERS:
>> 00:00:00,00:03:42,00:06:30,00:12:25,00:13:57,00:17:49,00:24:38,00:2
>> 9:02,
>> 00:33:08,00:38:27,00:42:07,00:46:42,00:50:24,00:54:15,00:58:33,01:0
>> 3:33,
>> 01:07:25,01:11:00,01:15:25,01:19:42,01:22:29,01:27:03,01:31:54,01:3
>> 7:40, 01:44:20,
>>
>> Interestingly though, playing the DVD, the OSD menu (or the V:xxxx
>> console output) starts at 0 seconds, goes all the way up to 3024
>> seconds and then resets to 0 seconds (I reckon it's where the layer
>> break is).
>>
>> 3024 seconds are 00:50:24, which, surprise, surprise, is a chapter
>> break (chapter 13).
>>
>> This means specifiying an offset below chapter 13 works well, but
>> e.g. specifying -ss 01:03:29 (chapter 16) won't work, since chapter
>> 16 displays 789 seconds as video offset (50:24+ 13:09(=789 sec) =
>> 1:03:33 voilà)
>>
>> btw: before chapter 17 there's another reset, as jumping to 17 is
>> at 24 seconds, oh, what the heck, I'll give you the complete list:
>>
> 
> I've never seen a situation like that.
> can you send me the corresponding ifo file?
Could not manage to put it into /incoming (don't know anymore where it 
is...), so I put it on my webspace:

http://www.roalter.it/dvd/HHGTTG.IFO.tar.gz

contains all the IFOs from the DVD.

If more info is needed, just tell me.

-- 
cheers,
Alex