[mythtv-users] navigating dvd menus

[William]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Sunday 31 January 2010 09:04:49 am Yan Seiner wrote:
>   
>> Brian Wood wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 31 January 2010 08:46:31 am Yan Seiner wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Does anyone know of a utility that dumps a dvd menu structure in a way
>>>> that can be easily processed by a shell script?
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to find a way to identify the title that gets played when the
>>>> user selects the "main feature" or "play feature" using a CLI script.
>>>>         
>>> The traditional wisdom is to simply select the longest file, it's correct
>>> 99% of the time.
>>>       
>> That's what I'm doing now; the problem is that some of the newer DVDs
>> seem to be catching on and creating dozens of nearly-identical length
>> titles.  This has to be some sleight-of-hand as you can't fit 41 90+
>> minute features onto a single DVD but that's what I'm seeing.  I'd love
>> to get a look at the menu structure that sets this up.
>>     
>
> I haven't run into that, but I rarely watch the newer movies.
>
> It does seem like a logical method of defeating DVD rippers. Sort of like the 
> hopping around to avoid deliberately bad sectors on the disk.
>
> Does Handbrake handle these disks? I think it follows the menu in some way.
>
>   

I have been able to use dvdshrink32 running under wine to identify the 
correct title. It also did a fine job of producing a backup copy of the 
file. I figure for the occasional title that causes trouble I can 
manually produce a backup.