From: Daniel Caujolle-B. <seg...@cl...> - 2003-03-18 23:10:59
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Hi Rocky, ...finally i get time to test deeper the vcdx plugin... R. Bernstein wrote: > Daniel Caujolle-Bert writes: > > Okay, so, if i understood you, one day the embbeded vcdimager version > > will disappear, superseded by the official one ? > > You understand correctly: the embedded vcdimager version will > disappear and will be superseded by an official release. I'm hoping by > release 0.7.15. Version 0.7.14 was released today: > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/vcdimager/vcdimager-0.7.14.tar.gz > > Even though in CVS there is a directory called vcdimager-0.7.12-rocky, > the contents are pretty much synched up to 0.7.14 with a couple of > additions like reading a CUE-sheet file and retrieving CD track MSF's > which I hope will get merged in release 0.7.15. > Okay. > > > > Just a question about vcdx plugin, can i access to menus with svcd ? > > As Glenda the Good Witch says to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, "Of > course you can. You always had that ability all the time." Never saw this movie, sorry ;-) > > There are many ways to do this. As designer of the GUI, I'm sure you > are familiar with ways to interact with an input plugin. The autoplay > directory and the MRL are two that come to mind. Okay. > > For concretness, let's use the the SVCD test disk available at: > http://www.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/examples/test_svcd/test_svcd_ntsc.zip i have some svcd here, this is why i wanted to see how menu looks. > > And have this as a CD in /dev/cdrom. Then xine vcdx:///dev/cdrom:P1 > > will read /dev/cdrom and start with playback control P1 which is where > you usually start. Note this is "vcdx" not "vcd" which would be the > old plugin. Yeah, i didn't use (in fact i remove the old plugin, like other i don't/can't use). > If /dev/cdrom is the "default" drive then the MRL "vcdx://:P1" would > work as well. If you enter just vcdx:///dev/cdrom or vcdx://, then > what gets played depends on a configuration setting. Make sure this is > in your .xine/config or .xine/config2: > > # default type to use on VCD autoplay > # { track entry segment playlist }, default: 1 > vcdx.autoplay:playlist > > If you just wanted a play just still frame a "segment" on that > particular CD, then you can specify one of the segments listed in the > MRL list, say "S4" for segment 4. You don't have to burn the CD above, > you can also run from the bin/cue image on a disk. If you have the > demo disk files stored in /tmp/test_svcd_ntsc.bin and > /tmp/test_svcd_ntsc.cue then > > xine vcdx:///tmp/test_svcd_ntsc.cue:P1 > > will work too. And if you cd to /tmp or the directory these are stored > in then > > xine vcdx://test_svcd_ntsc.cue:P1 > > or > xine vcdx://test_svcd_ntsc.cue > > assuming you have vcdx.autoplay:playlist set in your configuration > file. Okay, i got the menu using vcdx:// mrl type. > The fact that you ask this is a but surprising since these features > have been around for a while. What has changed in the upcoming release > is that the default thing to play is now a playlist entry (e.g. we > assume PBC is on) rather than an "entry" which always refers to > something inside a track. This change in default value reflects the > fact that PBC is largely finished. In fact, i never tried those vcd menu, i just used the old vcd plugin, just to see the streams, nothing more. But now, it's no more the case. > So to make this long story short, if you are asking this question, my > guess then is either you have tried the old plugin VCD, or the > configuration listed above "autoplay" entry is not playlist but > something else and you selected a MRL that was not specific enough so > the "autoplay" value was used. > > If you do find yourself in a still frame, this should be reflected in > the stream meta information as well as in the title if you have the > default setting: > vcdx.title_format:%F - %I %N%L%S, disk %c of %C - %v %A > > The %S refers to the "Still frame" value. > > Last but far from least, a lot of the above is documented in > docs/user-info.txt Okay, i will look closer, so. Thanks for all of those tips. It's really cool to have svcd menu working, impressive! Cheers. -- 73's de Daniel, F1RMB. -=- Daniel Caujolle-Bert -=- seg...@cl... -=- -=- http://naboo.homelinux.org -=- |