[MPlayer-users] dvd length issues approaching 1.0 release

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:31:26PM +0000, Chris Phillips wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As 1.0 is slowly getting nearer and things are being finalised, can 
> someone say that by the 1.0 release mplayer will actually be able to tell 
> the length of a dvd? MPlyaer is a stupidly good bit of kit, but I find it 
> kinda embarrasing to have to see that MPlayer can not successfully tell me 
> how long a dvd track even is...

Perhaps you would like to tell us _how_ to get the correct length of a
dvd track?

> Obviously all this information is available within the ifo's on the dvd, 
> I've written apps myself which will whip out this information in no time. 
> I can understand why things can be more complicated when you're looking at 
> streaming and such, but to be able to have the OSD tellnig me i'm 1hr 
> 32mins into a 58 minute film is just daft.
> 
> I have seen this area excused on this list before, but if Xine can do 
> it...

The length info comes from the demuxer, which doesn't know anything
about the ifo. This should be changed in g2, where we'll try to make
the demuxer repair the broken timestamps in DVDs, but don't expect it
to change in g1 since no one really cares...

Rich