Re: [Thoggen-devel] filename selection

[Tim <t....@ze...>]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 17:26 +0100, John Leach wrote:

> these are just my opinions but I'm thinking these might be good defaults
> for general use.
> 
> These ideas are from my experience ripping a DVD of the Ray Mears TV
> show, which has multiple episodes on the one disc.
> 
> It would be nice if the default filename had the title in it.  The
> title_num isn't very useful, especially if the user has already taken
> the time to write title_tags for each title.
> 
> Also, in the job editor dialog, I think it should have the title_tag at
> the top as well as or instead of the title_num, e.g:
> "Configure DVD Title 2: Ray Mears - Jungle".  I know this is in the
> stream information, but still.

That sounds like a good idea, yes.


> Also, it would be useful for each job editor dialog to use the previous
> dialogs output directory to specify the new output file.  In my case, I
> wanted to put all 6 episodes in one directory
> named /home/john/dvd/raymears and I had to browse to the directory for
> each job.  How often will a user be exporting different titles to
> different directories in the same run?

I agree, that should definitively be fixed.


> Also, if I don't like the way a film ends, could I check a box and have
> Thoggen rewrite the script for me?

Not a bad idea at all, maybe once we reach version 1.x :-P  For now,
what about cutting off the film 10 minutes before the end and replacing
the end with 10 minutes worth of snooker or golf championship footage?

Cheers
 -Tim