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+SMPlayer 0.6.7 adds the possibility to display DVD menus.

+

+In order to enable, you need:

+

+* Check the option "Enable DVD menus" in Preferences->Drives.

+* Assign the action "Activate option in DVD menus" (Preferences->Keyboard and 

+  mouse) to the left mouse button (so you can select the options in the menus 

+  with the mouse).

+

+A recent mplayer build with dvdnav support is required.

+

+Note that cache will be automatically DISABLED (dvd menus won't work with it)

+so this can affect performance.

+

+WARNING: support for DVD menus is EXPERIMENTAL and NOT complete yet.

+Currently mplayer has a lot of issues/limitations when using dvdnav, and it

+doesn't make things easy for front-ends, so the support for the DVD menus

+in smplayer can't be improved any further for the moment.

+

+Some of the problems I found:

+

+* it seems there's no way to know the current title that it's playing.

+  MPlayer prints a line like this "DVDNAV, switched to title: 1" but

+  unfortunately the title number that appears there may not match the

+  title IDs that mplayer printed before (it may say "switched to title 2"

+  but the actual title may be the 12th). As smplayer doesn't know the

+  title, restoring the previous position after a mplayer restart is

+  impossible.

+

+* if the audio track is changed, when you return to the dvd menu the

+  sound may be lost (while printing a lot of error messages "Too many

+  video packets in the buffer").

+

+* subtitles may disappear after seeking.