[MPlayer-users] tips and tricks to play dvds

[Floris]

(A little off-topic)

You can also use "lsdvd" and "dvdbackup" when you
want to write a bash script.

lsdvd gives you the longest track
dvdbackup will print the main feature

most of the time these two will be the same, but
sometimes when a dvd has more films on it
there is a difference.

good luck,

floris



Antonio Olivares schreef:
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>
> --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de> wrote:
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>> From: Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de>
>> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] tips and tricks to play dvds
>> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
>> Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:46 PM
>>     
>>> 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
>>     
>
> Thanks Kiste and Jimmy for answering.  The following 
>
> mplayer dvd://$(mplayer dvd:// -identify -frames 0 |grep ID_DVD_TITLE |grep LENGTH |sort -n -t = -k 2 |tail -1 |cut -f 4 -d _)  
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> obtained from above page did the trick.  Now I'll need to create a script to call mplayer and avoid the menus and previews which take long and instead watch the movie.  
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio 
>
>
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