[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Extended DVD-arguments

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:18:42PM +0200, Carl Fûrstenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:54:04 +0200, Carl Fûrstenberg <azatoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, now I'm feeling like a fool, didn't notice the entries in
> > parser-mpcmd.c, so now I have meltdown in my head. each given title
> > should be able to have it own chapter-range, and angle. don't know how
> > to fix that :(
> > 
> > You then would need to type like this: dvd://1:1-2:1|2-3:2-4:1@device
> > etc... or dvd://1-4:1-2,2,,1-4:1,,,3@device
> > 
> > Huston, I have a problem...
> > 
> 
> Have use a bit of my brain now, this is fo me complicated, but lets
> see if this is a solution:
> 
> dvd://title1&title2-title3,title5:title1chapter1-title1chapter2,title1chapter4&title235chapter1,title235chapter3:title1angel&title235angle@dvd-device
> 
> but, you are the boss...

multiple titles/title ranges are a rather broken feature imo, since
they involve a single 'filename' creating multiple playlist entries.
my vote would be to support them for legacy purposes, but not to allow
chapter range selections (or any of the extended dvd:// syntax) if
they're used. if someone wants to select chapter ranges for multiple
titles they should really do something like:

mplayer dvd://1:1-2 dvd://2:5-10 ...

the synatx is much cleaner.

rich