--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Oliver Seitz <info@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Oliver Seitz <info@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: tips and tricks to play dvds > To: olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx, "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports" <mplayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 _) 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 _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
