[MPlayer-users] problems with dvdnav

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Friday 28 December 2007 22:08:35 vdmsss ha scritto:
> Hi Carl Eugen, thanks for your reply.
>
> On 28 Dec 2007, at 19:41, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > vdmsss <vdm_sss <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> >> mplayer dvdnav:///dev/rdisk1
> >
> > This is simply not how dvdnav://, dvd:// and similar mplayer
> > playback paths
> > work. There are no devices (or device paths) expected behind the
> > second slash
> > but title numbers.
> >
> > Is the man-page misleading about this? If you think so, please
> > propose a
> > change.
>
> No, in fact the man page is clear. However confusion is likely to
> arise because the form "protocol" :// "path"  is essentially a
> standard. Worse, VLC and dvdnav use the "dvdnav:///dev/rdisk1" for
> exactly that purpose (just google it and you'll find many hits).
> Even more confusion because if I run from / or if I add another /
> as in "dvdnav:////dev/rdisk1" (four /) then mplayer does not
> complain, just plays the disk from the main title as expected.
>
> So it appears that mplayer allows that form, it just parses it
> wrong. If mplayer wants to disallow it, that's fine too I think,
> but again the leading / should not disappear: it should say eg
> "/dev/rdisk1 is not a title number" rather that "can't stat
> dev/rdisk1"
>
> Cheers.
>

read my previous message: the first / is read in the hostname part