On Wednesday 16 March 2011 15:17:14 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2011 13:54:57 Stroller wrote: > > On 16/3/2011, at 12:44pm, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Wednesday 09 March 2011 18:27:59 Stroller wrote: > > >> I've got a Perl script to wrapper `dvdbackup && mkisofs`, reduce > > >> typing a little and do some error-checking. ... In the next > > >> version > > >> I'd like to remove the "unskippable" flag from all titles / > > >> chapters, > > >> as it seems a little daft to have ripped all one's DVDs to a > > >> network > > >> RAID array, and yet still have to suffer the dumb FBI warnings. > > >> All > > >> the Windows rippers do this, so I assume it's possible to > > >> implement, > > >> but I have no idea how difficult. > > > > > > ... > > > As for the "unskippable" flag, I wonder if the other tools "rebuild" > > > the menu structure and remove it that way. I have in the past > > > played with making dvd- menus myself and it wasn't too hard. > > > (following the howtos) > > > > That one can make DVD menus with GUI Linux applications indicates that > > it > > must be possible to make such changes. I would imagine (or at least > > hope) > > that it's not so much a case of rebuilding the menus from scratch, but > > just as case of flipping a single bit - the equivalent in a binary-file > > of changing "skippable=no" to "yes" in a text file. > > > > What programs have you used to make DVD menus in the past? > > DVD Author, there are some howto's for it on the web, including on on the > gentoo forums: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 > > I don't know how that menu works, but if anyone knows which file contains > it, we might be able to edit that bit. > > If anyone knows how to create the "dvd-author" xml-config-files from an > existing DVD, I'm sure, with some clever scripting, we can amend that > particular flag. It is in my todo-list, but it doesn't have a very high > priority at the moment. > > -- > Joost
Stroller (and others), While having a quick search, I found the following page: http://old.nabble.com/dvdunauthor-xml-file-dump,-then-import-to-dvdauthor-with- errors...-td20324985.html This may be usefull to someone with good script-fu? :) -- Joost
