[MPlayer-users] dvd playlist was: playlist file syntax

[Carl Karsten]

RC wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:18:43 -0600
> Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Correct, but currently the playlist doesn't have a syntax for that, 
>>which is what I am talking about.
> 
> 
> Clearly, what I'm saying is not making it through...  This
> does NOT require any special handling by the playlist.  If you want
> "/dev/hdd" to be the dvd device, you would use something like
> "dvd://1//dev/hdd" anywhere you could otherwise use "dvd://1".
> 
> Now, that's not an exact line, and it's not currently functional AFAIK,
> but if the patch is accepted, it will work in the future.

Close.

What I want is for mplayer to figure how to play the movie whos location 
is specified by a relitive (not absolute) designaton in the play list 
(geez that's wordy.)

dvd://1 would be fine, "if" mplayer knew that it should use the same 
"device" as where it found the playlist.  I have a feeling that would be 
an undesirable change (it would break a playlist stored on the HD that 
played whatever DVD was loaded in the drive) thus the "if".  OTOH, maybe 
the c

Following the "dvd://1//dev/hdd", maybe dvd://1//./ to represent 
"dvd://1//<dvd location>"

Carl K