[MPlayer-users] Option to disable dvd navigation?

[Floris Bos]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:21:05 am Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quintidi 15 nivôse, an CCXIX, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> > Either way the proper solution would be to use dvd-device=http:// but
> > unfortunately that (and in general custom protocols) are not supported by
> > dvdread.
> 
> Or the other way around: streaming only the actual DVD titles from the web
> server.
> 
> What Floris probably does not realise is that the files on a DVD-video are
> almost meaningless: they are the concatenation of every bits of MPEG stream
> that the authoring tool needs to put somewhere, split at 1 Go boundaries.
> The actual structure is stored in the IFO files, and needs libdvdread or
> equivalent code to parse.

Unfortuneately, I cannot use the IFO file.

The situation I described was somewhat simplified.
The actual situation is that the software that acts as the webserver and that 
I want mplayer to stream from, is a kind of download manager, that comes with 
a preview/stream function.
It is typically used to judge the movie quality before the download has 
finished. 
For that purpose it doesn't matter that much which MPEG bits it plays, but it 
would still be nice if it at least got past the DVD menu.

The movie content can be stored inside RAR files, which are extracted on the 
fly.
Problem with that is that the .VOB files may appear earlier inside the archive 
than the .IFO.


>If you do not use dvdnav:// there is no menu involved, if it loops that is
>because there is a looping video in the vob.

Any way to get rid of the loop functionality?
Is the code that does the looping inside MPlayer, or inside one of the 
libraries it uses?


-- 
Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos