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

[Herbert Attenberger <herbsl@a-land.de>]

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