[xine-devel] Re: DVD MRL changes

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Michael Roitzsch wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> 
>>xine dvd:/   <- plays a DVD from the default dvd device.
>>xine dvd://dev/sr0 <- plays a DVD from /dev/sr0
>>xine dvd:/dvd.img  <- plays a DVD image from the current directory.
>>xine dvd://dvd/dvd.img <- plays a DVD from full path /dvd/dvd.img
>>xine dvd://dvd/dvd.img/ <- plays a DVD from full path /dvd/dvd.img. Having
>>the last / makes no difference.
>>xine dvd://dvd/dvd.img:1.2 <- plays Title 
>>1, Part 2 of DVD image.
> 
> 
> I certainly appreciate you trying to improve these DVD MRLs, but I am not sure 
> this is a good solution, because
> a) it breaks MRLs that worked before
>    ("xine dvd:/path/to/image/" will not work any more)
>    and I fear this will cost us a lot of explaining on xine-user
> b) it is not conforming to the MRL grammar, because this clearly requires
>    /dvd.img to be an absolute path in dvd:/dvd.img
> 
> I would still favour the idea discussed here: 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7519844
> It's just that noone took the time to implement that yet. I think leaving out 
> the "?title=2&part=4" for now would serve as a good interim solution.
> 
> Sorry for my complaints.
> 
> Michael
> 

Having the last / or not has caught out so many people, that I think we 
have to go with the idea that the last / does not matter, so it works 
with or without it. That is what I am trying to do, and if you have 
found a case where it does not work, we should fix it.

I certainly do not like the dvd.img/2  (meaning title 2) method.
It is too ambiguous.

Cheers
James