Sorry folks. I just couldn't leave it alone until I figured it out.
The softcon dvd player now has the ability to play *all* titles on
the disc. This means all of those extras, deleted scenes, and yes,
even the commercials for other shows.
It's a bit tricky, so here's how it works.
When you use the T (capital T) key, it will move to the next title.
Toggle between menus and playing has been moved to the letter M.
What happens is this.
When you hit the T key, softcon dvd player increments your current
title selection by 1, and then starts playing that selection. The
problem is in the way dvds are built. After a particular selection
is played, most dvds go back to the menu. When this happens, the
current playing selection of course isn't a title, since it's a
menu. This drops your title selector back to zero.
So, here's how I suggest you work this feature until I can work up
something a little more usable.
First of all, change your time display to time remaining by mouse
clicking on the time display. When you do this, the time will become
a negative number, letting you know how much time is left in the
currently playing selection.
Then, you can hit the T key and title number 1 will begin playing.
You can then watch the time left countdown until it approaches 0,
then hit T again before it gets there. This way you can navigate to
each and every selection on the dvd disc. Be advised though, that
things aren't always in an orderly manner, and commercials/previews
may be intermixed with your show episodes and such. it works, so we
can finally get at everything on the disc to watch it, but it's
certainly not an elegant solution. I'll put together something a bit
more user friendly later on. This was just to get the feature out
there for folks to use it. I'm finding all sorts of things on some
of my dvds I never knew was there and I for one an having a blast
with this program.
Url for those who've just joined the list, or missed the other
postings is:
http://homepage.mac.com/windowbridge/
Enjoy.
I think this will be the last version for a few days at least, since
the other things I want to add to it are more complex, and I've been
ignoring other tasks to get this into a usable condition.
Glad you folks like it, it is good to know it's being used already.
Thanks for the feedback too, it helps to know what else is wanted/
needed.
