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Testing DVD Menus

by Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2 :: Rate this Message:

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I used to use ogle to test menu behaviours on a dvdauthor-created
directory structure before burning it to a DVD. Gentoo had a package for
this, but it appears Debian does not. Is ogle dead?

I had a hunt around for alternatives, and it looks like vlc does a
creditable job of handling the simple menus I've thrown at it so far.

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Re: Testing DVD Menus

by Eduardo M KALINOWSKI-4 :: Rate this Message:

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On Ter, 02 Jun 2009, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> I used to use ogle to test menu behaviours on a dvdauthor-created
> directory structure before burning it to a DVD. Gentoo had a package for
> this, but it appears Debian does not. Is ogle dead?
>
> I had a hunt around for alternatives, and it looks like vlc does a
> creditable job of handling the simple menus I've thrown at it so far.

I don't know about ogle, but xine can display DVD menus.


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Re: Testing DVD Menus

by Bill McClain-3 :: Rate this Message:

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On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:26:52 +1200
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@...> wrote:

> I used to use ogle to test menu behaviours on a dvdauthor-created
> directory structure before burning it to a DVD. Gentoo had a package for
> this, but it appears Debian does not. Is ogle dead?
>
> I had a hunt around for alternatives, and it looks like vlc does a
> creditable job of handling the simple menus I've thrown at it so far.

I think vlc is pretty nice and use it instead of xine these days. But I
haven't created complex menus for either in a long time.

I've always supposed that software players are more generous in what they
accept than standalone hardware, but I don't keep any test cases.

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Re: Testing DVD Menus

by Joo Martin-4 :: Rate this Message:

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On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:26:52 +1200 wrote
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@...>:

> I used to use ogle to test menu behaviours on a dvdauthor-created
> directory structure before burning it to a DVD. Gentoo had a package for
> this, but it appears Debian does not. Is ogle dead?
On my Debian Lenny (stable) you find ogle. Sometimes I had tested ogle
but it seems it is still buggy. So I always use xine - it is fast
configurable and not buggy.

> I had a hunt around for alternatives, and it looks like vlc does a
> creditable job of handling the simple menus I've thrown at it so far.
Yes, vlc is a good program. But I have found that some dvd menu buttons
get other colors as I have defined with dvdauthor/dvdwizard. I don't no
why.

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Ciao,  Joo

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Re: Testing DVD Menus

by Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Bill McClain wrote:

> I've always supposed that software players are more generous in what they
> accept than standalone hardware, but I don't keep any test cases.

Fair point. But if I hit a problem with the software player, I figure it
saves me wasting a DVD. :)

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Re: Testing DVD Menus

by Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Joo Martin wrote:

> On my Debian Lenny (stable) you find ogle.

I'm running Unstable. I did "apt-cache search ogle", and couldn't see
any package actually named something like "ogle".

> Sometimes I had tested ogle
> but it seems it is still buggy. So I always use xine - it is fast
> configurable and not buggy.

I previously had trouble with xine--whenever I tried it with downloaded
media files, it usually complained it couldn't find the right demuxer or
codec. Possibly I was running distro-specific versions which were
crippled for legal reasons?

Anyway, I just tried it with the same menus I previously tested with
vlc, and yes, it seems to handle them fine.

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Re: Testing DVD Menus

by Joo Martin-4 :: Rate this Message:

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On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:59:17 +1200 wrote
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@...>:

> I'm running Unstable. I did "apt-cache search ogle", and couldn't see
> any package actually named something like "ogle".
That's right. I checked the debian repository and some more infos about
ogle. It seems it is not more under development since 2006. But its
gui looks some years older. And it have some bugs. So it will be
the best to forget ogle and use xine, totem, gxine or vlc.

Ciao,  Joo

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