[MPlayer-users] RFE: "Intelligent" DVD title selection

Michael Behrisch behrisch at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Tue Jan 18 11:32:33 CET 2005


On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:29:06PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 January 2005 at 18:19, Matthew Mott wrote:
> > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > >
> > >I have a DVD (Babylon 5 Season 1), on which each episode and each extra
> > >is in its own title, so there's no "longest" title, but there are - for
> > >example - 3 or 4 titles of equal length and several shorter ones. First
> > >episode is located - quite intuitively - at title 1. How do you propose
> > >to handle this case?
> >
> > How about:
> > 
> > 1) If there is a longest title, select this one.
> > 2) If there are several "longest" titles, which differ in length by at
> > most x seconds (where x is fairly small), select the one with the lowest
> > title number.
> 
> What about "differ in length by at most x percent"? Relative difference
> is better here I think.
> 
> > This would deal correctly with your DVD, since the first title is also
> > the first "longest" title. It would also deal correctly with my DVD of
> > Little Britain Series 1 where the first episode is title 2 (with title 1
> > being an introductory sequence).
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me. Now we need a volunteer from the audience to
> implement it. :)

What happened to this one?

http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/mplayer-dev-eng/2004-08/msg00985.html

Micha




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