[Simian]

Hi,

Generally, I encode all my DVDs to h264/mkv on hard drive, rather than have them hanging around for the children to break.

According to Handbrake, one of my DVDs has ~90 equal length (128 minute) titles. I've tried encoding the first 3, but each of them consists of loops of repeated video after playing normally for roughly 10, 20 & 45mins.

Obviously the DVD menu picks the correct DVD title to play, and XBMC plays it with minimal[*] problems. Does anyone know if there is any logging output by XBMC that would tell me which title to encode?


[*] This particular DVD tends to cause XBMC to restart if you try and skip or fast forward the 10 minutes of adverts at the start, and copying it to HD produces a version with a broken menu, on natty/unstable anyway.

Thanks,

Simon.

[X3lectric]

this falls under the realms of disk copy protection (no doubt) which handbrake cannot handle. And in that case google is your friend. Im sure many ppl here will tell you what programs to use, but Im not one of them.

if not perhaps the DVD is fubar, does it play on other machines OK?

\\edit XBMC has a seetiing that says attempt to skip DVD menus or something to that effect, but this is hardcoded in some DVD's and cannot be skipped due to protection.

[Simian]

this falls under the realms of disk copy protection (no doubt) which handbrake cannot handle. And in that case google is your friend. Im sure many ppl here will tell you what programs to use, but Im not one of them.

if not perhaps the DVD is fubar, does it play on other machines OK?

\\edit XBMC has a seetiing that says attempt to skip DVD menus or something to that effect, but this is hardcoded in some DVD's and cannot be skipped due to protection.

Yeah, I tried looking for something that would decode the .ifo files into some useful format, but nothing that gave me the details I needed came up.

I wouldn't be that bothered, but it's my kids' favourite film, and it was covered in sticky finger prints this morning... as I discovered having been woken up specifically to "fix the dvd player" at 6am.

The disc plays fine, if you just (clean it) put it in the drive and press play. It's just skipping / ffwd that causes problems, and if the kids are happy to sit and watch adds, I'm not bothered.

[X3lectric]

http://forums.afterdawn.com/ has all the information you need.

[Simian]

http://forums.afterdawn.com/ has all the information you need.

Thank you.

This thread gives me the info I needed:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-11/d...bs-902449/

Where players like MPC-Home Cinema will display the title being played.

Simon.

[X3lectric]

np