[MPlayer-users] Request for more verbose information from dvds

[Arpi]

Hi,

> I know that the cropdetect option give out suitable information for 
> parsing, so that's great, and it's easy to get information on what 
> languages are present in a title etc. but it would really be great to be 
> able to get some more information about a dvd from mplayer itself, and not
> need to use vstrip of similar apps.

you should check ifo_dump, from libdvdread package
it prints as many info as it can from the .ifo file, in a parseable format

> I have tried reading the source to find where the titles are read, and 
> found various things inside libmpdemux and the libmpdvdkit2, but not found 
> anything i think i could base a patch, or such like, around.

the disc is opened in libmpdemux/open.c, search for #ifdef USE_DVDREAD
but info like length of titles etc aren't exported there, as we don't need
it for playback. only the selected title is opened.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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