GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 652358
rsndvd: Starting at wrong DVD menu with DVDFASTSTART
Last modified: 2013-01-09 09:02:19 UTC
By default, totem use the DVDFASTSTART method to skip all useless chapters of a DVD and starts directly at the DVD menu. On some DVDs, totem starts at a wrong menu page. This is the case for my Alien Quadrilogy DVDs: - on each disc, there are two versions of the movie (Director's Cuts and Theatrical Cuts) - the first menu screen should be the selection between those two versions - the second menu is either Director's Cuts or Theatrical Cuts menu page, where user can chose to play move/chapter selection/audio preferences. - totem starts directly at Theatrical Cuts menu page (hopefully, there is a button to go back). Note that vlc has the same issue... I don't know if it's a software bug or a DVD bug. How can I provide further informations?
fast-start uses heuristics to guess what the menu is, and is apparently wrong in these cases.
*** Bug 666761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
<thaytan> not much to do about it apart from provide some UI way to disable DVDFASTSTART <thaytan> there's not really any heuristic - the problem is DVDs that don't have the main DVD menu linked as the 'top menu' in the navigation structures <thaytan> fast start starts playing the first title, and then tries to jump into the main menu from it <thaytan> sometimes the DVDs don't point to the right one So not much we can do about this then, closing as NOTABUG (no CANTFIX I'm afraid). Feel free to re-open if you find a way to make this work properly, thanks!