[vdr] Re: DVD playback from hard-disk?

[Matt Tovey <matt.tovey@sgi.com>]

Thanks for the tips (Herbert and Matthias).

I'd like to try out dvdselect, but as far as I can see, the dvd plugin
only works with VDR 1.3? I'm currently on 1.2.6, but I'll be brave and
try a compile of 1.3. :) 

Does the dvdselect plugin only work with ISO images of DVDs? I can copy
DVDs with 'vobcopy -m' and then make an iso of the result, I guess, but
is that necessary?

A couple more questions:

- mplayer can't navigate DVDs, is that right?

- xine can't output to DVB, is that right?

Cheers,

Matt

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Herbert Attenberger wrote:
> 
> Am Mo, den 04.10.2004 schrieb Matt Tovey um 17:31:
> > I'd like to copy DVDs to my hard-disk and play these back with VDR. At
> > the moment I'm copying the DVDs with 'vobcopy -l' and using mplayer and
> > Stefan's mplayer plugin to play them back, but there are a few problems
> > with this:
> >
> > - vobcopy keeps all the audio soundtracks so that I can later choose
> > between german and english soundtracks (for example). But the IDs of the
> > different audio tracks vary, so using mplayer I have to check what IDs
> > are avilable, and them try them out until I find the one I want.
> >
> > - When video for different languages is present (for example, the
> > scrolling titles at the beginning of Star Wars), the pictures jump
> > backwards every few seconds and play the other language. So I'd like a
> > solution that can also choose the correct video language (is this done
> > with angles?).
> >
> > - Subtitles - I'd occasionally like to see subtitles, but what I really
> > need is to see the "mandatory" subtitles - when the characters are speak
> > a few phrases of japanese, my DVD player shows sub-titles just for those
> > phrases. So far with mplayer I've only been able to switch subtitles on
> > all the time or off all the time...
> >
> > On top of this it'd be nice to have the DVD Menus!
> >
> > Has anyone been able to solve any of these? With mplayer? Xine?
> > Something else perhaps?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> the dvdselect-plugin (http://vdr.sjur.de/) should be the perfect thing
> for you ...
> 
> bye
> 
> Herbert