[MPlayer-users] Seek and chapter

[Olivier Rolland]

On Nov 9, 2007 3:52 PM, Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it> wrote:
> Il Friday 09 November 2007 15:40:38 Alexander Roalter ha scritto:
>
> > If I take one arbitrary DVD of mine, I get the following chapter
> > list:
> >
> > CHAPTERS: CHAPTERS:
> > 00:00:00,00:03:42,00:06:30,00:12:25,00:13:57,00:17:49,00:24:38,00:2
> >9:02,
> > 00:33:08,00:38:27,00:42:07,00:46:42,00:50:24,00:54:15,00:58:33,01:0
> >3:33,
> > 01:07:25,01:11:00,01:15:25,01:19:42,01:22:29,01:27:03,01:31:54,01:3
> >7:40, 01:44:20,
> >
> > Interestingly though, playing the DVD, the OSD menu (or the V:xxxx
> > console output) starts at 0 seconds, goes all the way up to 3024
> > seconds and then resets to 0 seconds (I reckon it's where the layer
> > break is).
> >
> > 3024 seconds are 00:50:24, which, surprise, surprise, is a chapter
> > break (chapter 13).
> >
> > This means specifiying an offset below chapter 13 works well, but
> > e.g. specifying -ss 01:03:29 (chapter 16) won't work, since chapter
> > 16 displays 789 seconds as video offset (50:24+ 13:09(=789 sec) =
> > 1:03:33 voilà)
> >
> > btw: before chapter 17 there's another reset, as jumping to 17 is
> > at 24 seconds, oh, what the heck, I'll give you the complete list:
> >
>
> I've never seen a situation like that.
> can you send me the corresponding ifo file?

This happens for me with almost every DVD9. Not so much with DVD5. The
problem also appears with EDL files.

Olivier