[vlc] Problems converting single DVD titles on DVD's with deliberate errors

[Frederik Holljen]

No one with comments on this? Should I send it to vlc-devel instead?

Cheers,
Frederik

On 12/12/2008, Frederik Holljen <frekko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm writing an application using vlc to convert single DVD titles to
>  transport stream.
>
>  As you may know VLC has two ways to read content from a DVD:
>  - dvd:// using dvdnav
>  - dvdsimple:// using dvdread.
>
>  For my usage dvdsimple:// is recommended by the vlc community because
>  it doesn't include navigation. E.g when using dvd://@1 to capture the
>  main title the converting process may continue indefinitely capturing
>  the menu if the dvd title includes navigation to return to the menu or
>  any other title. I tried using dvd:// on some titles and sure enough,
>  it will fill my hard drive :)
>
>  The problem however, is that quite a few DVD's contain deliberate
>  errors. To remedy this the dvdread/dvdnav guys implemented a DVD-vm in
>  dvdnav that detects and fixes these errors. The issue is that the
>  DVD-vm is in dvdnav (dvd://) and _not_ in dvdread (dvdsimple://).
>
>  In effect, the single title converting in vlc is currently buggy since
>  any dvd's with deliberate errors will never work.
>
>  According to the dvdread/dvdnav guys this was a problem in mplayer
>  before as well. They fixed the issue by circumventing the chain
>  functionality in dvdnav if a specific title is specified.
>
>  Is this something the vlc developers acknowledge as an issue? Is there
>  any other known way to get around this problem?
>
>  Cheers,
>
> Frederik
>