[MPlayer-users] Chicken Little DVD not starting movie with dvd://1

[Corey Hickey]

Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>> I have 1 DVD called Chicken Little that the same command dvd://1
>> does not start playing the movie. I have to issue dvd://5 to start
>> playing the movie.
> 
> This is based strictly on the manufacturers of the dvd. The number
> signifies the title number. If it isn't the first one you usually have
> to play around to find the right one. I have found the pressing the
> dvd button in the gui usually works, but I assume that most my dvds
> are dvd://1.
> 
> The only way I can think of for an autodetect is to write a shell
> script to perform it.
> 
> Use lsdvd then grep the output for the largest title, then throw that
> title in as an arguement to mplayer.

$ mplayer dvd://

plays the longest title automatically.

-Corey