[MPlayer-users] tips and tricks to play dvds

[Oliver Seitz]

>
> Dear fellow mplayer users,
>
> I have mplayer installed on several computers.  There are some movies
> which one has to try out and exhaust the numbers
> $ mplayer dvd://x
> where x is a number starting from 1 and forward.  The main movie might be
> like at 10 and I have to scan all the way to 10 find the main movie.  Is
> there a magical number that one can use so that mplayer finds the main
> movie and start playing it, without going through the previews one by one?
>
> Does there exist such an option?
> I know that one can use mplayer dvdnav:// and if the movie has a menu and
> one has compiled a newer version of mplayer via svn, we can see the menus,
> but clicking on it does no good.  This only works while using
> gnome-mplayer :), but when it is not available(did not install it on that
> particular machine), I fall back to command line mplayer and finding the
> main movie takes a while.  Is there a quick hack or do I have to try out
> one by one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antonio

Some questions already have answers, and google knows some of them :-)

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2009-March/076152.html

Greets,
Kiste