[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD Playback problems (lots of info provided...)

[Robert R. Wal]

On 02.10.16 D Richard Felker III pressed the following keys:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:44:56PM -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> > 3. How come I can't get MENUs like on a tv-based DVD player or a win or 
> > mac DVD player? Am I missing something obvious? I don't see this option 
> > and playing the DVD from mplayer skips the menus and foes straight to 
> > the first scene.
> 
> Why do people always want this junk? It's annoying and gets in the way
> of the movie. If I want to watch a DVD, I want to WATCH the DVD, not
> play around with silly animations and intro screens I have to wade
> past before I get started. Just plain playing the movie without any of
> that nonsense is a FEATURE of mplayer, not a bug/limitation, IMHO. :)

1. Because sometimes the dvd menus are The Art by themselves. Have you
seen menus for Alien and Aliens?

2. Because navigation through features on feature-packed DVD-s is easier
with menus instead of blind trying -dvd 1-15.

3. Because some people like to have the choice. If I've been using
something that other people tell me is good, I would be using Windows XP
on some shitty P4 Compaq Dell or other Gateway with nvidia gfx and onboard
sound, bought for double tripple or quadrupple the price of my
homebuilt xp1700+mga450+sblive5.1+dxr3 running Linux.

Robert

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