[MPlayer-users] Trouble with Star Trek:TOS multi-angle Blu-Rays

[Linards Ticmanis]

Ok, old problem solved, new problem popping up. This might be a
libbluray issue rather than a mplayer core issue - I've already asked at
their list. Since I'm not sure which codebase is the culprit (or if it
is the one between my ears), I'm asking here as well.

My Setup:

I use Ubuntu, on that I run mplayer with libbluray (both compiled by me
from fresh svn / git trees). I'm trying to play, with that setup,
decoded versions of some Blu-Rays from the German release of Star Trek:
The Original Series, Season One. To be exact I'm trying to play the
versions of the episodes with the old 1960s effect shots, which go as
"Blu-Ray Angle 1" on those discs, while the default versions with the
digitally enhanced or redone effects go as "Blu-Ray Angle 0".

My Problem:

What I'm trying to do works well for most episodes by simply saying
"mplayer -bluray-angle 1 ...", except for those two that feature a
Picture-in-Picture comment ("The Menagerie Part I" and "Space Seed" in
this particular release). With them, giving -bluray-angle 1 to mplayer
gives me the video of the PiP comment track instead, with the audio of
the series however. Where there's nothing in the comment track, I get
black video. Still, according to mplayer there's only two angles in
there. And the angle I want must be there since I can chose it and see
it in a Windows based player - not a real alternative, though.

My minimal command line looks like this:

mplayer -bluray-angle 1 -bluray-device /path/to/decrypted/disk br://4

(or br://2)

My Questions:

Is it a known problem that libbluray confuses PiP comment tracks with
angles? Is there a work-around? (saying -bluray-angle 2 or any higher
number doesn't help, it will just give me Angle 0 again.)

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Linards Ticmanis