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

[Carl Fûrstenberg]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:51:56 -0400, D Richard Felker III
<dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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so you propose a bypass operation in parser-mpcmd.c if string isn't dvd://%d-%d?