[MPlayer-users] libdvdplay 1.0.0 released
Karol Pietrzak
The_Alchemist at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 4 03:07:35 CET 2003
On Monday 03 February 2003 19:47, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> IMO the lack of DVD menu nonsense is the #1 advantage of MPlayer over
> the competition. :)
Are you serious?? Is this is the position of the developers?
A few days ago, I was talking about the advantages of MPlayer as a DVD
player, and I brought up the fact that MPlayer is one of the few
players which supports CC subtitles (not only that, but can anti-alias
them...). Using the arrow keys for navigation is golden and so handy
(IIRC, Ogle will soon implement a feature to mimic this).
But, then, a friend of mine brought over a DVD and said: "Pull up the
menu: I want show you a cool interview" My reply was: "Err.. my DVD
player doesn't support DVD menus..." "Then it sucks," was the reply,
and appriopriately so.
With many DVDs now having >20 titles and a dozen chapters for each
title, what the hell am I supposed to do to find, say, the bonus
interview or music video? Manually scroll through each title? (Hm..
maybe it's on Title 15, Chapter 6... nope...).
I have in my hands a DVD on which MPlayer never gets past Title 1; I
have to manully select Title 3 each time I pop in the DVD. Using the
DVD menu obliviates for that.
What if I want to play a certain episode on a Simpsons DVD? Am I
supposed to keep hitting ">" to change the title/chapter and then the
UP arrow twice to see what episode it is, and then repeat again and
again?? [As a joke, that same friend asked a few days later whether
mplayer could seek in an AVI...]
DVD menus are a very important feature to me, and anyone else I know
that watches DVDs. Any player that does not support them is ignored.
For this reason (and -only- this reason), I have completely abandoned
MPlayer in favor of Ogle for watching DVDs.
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Karol Pietrzak <The_Alchemist at earthlink.net>
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