DVDNav current time

DVDNav module calculates the current time by taking the total time and then uses the block position to approximate the current playing time. Because of changing lenght of the blocksize this method is inaccurate.

A better method should be found, but this requires accessing the internal DVDread structure (see also [10144]). This functionality should be exposed from the dvdnav API and therefore requires libdvdnav development.

added Component::Demuxers + 1 deleted label

changed title from DVDNav duration to DVDNav current time

changed the description

DVDnav duration is fixed changing bug to dvdnav current time issue, which is closely related.

added Difficulty::medium label

changed milestone to %0.8.5-final

changed milestone to %0.8.5-test3

Delaying until libdvdnav is fixed (have they been notified btw ?)

changed milestone to %0.8.6

http://dvd.sourceforge.net/dvdinfo/ifo_vts.html#tmap time table for the cells, which needs to be used in order to do a proper SET_TIME.

assigned to @hartman

changed milestone to %0.9.2

changed milestone to %Features paradize

what does "see also [10144]" mean here?

Another manifestation of this, I believe:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=81879

[10144] used to mean Subversion revision 10144:

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r10144 | robux4 | 2005-03-05 16:02:39 +0200 (sam. 05 mars 2005) | 1 ligne
Chemins modifiés :
   M /trunk/modules/access/dvdread.c

dvdread.c: fix the title duration & time reports
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Now git commit 286a9420 http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=286a9420a21325a49fdd3b56d721ca3d8e90cde8

unassigned @hartman

Offering $400 bounty if someone can fix this within dvdnav itself (also saw it mentioned on the dev ML recently). Thanks! -roger-

Appears that mplayer has some code to do this "right" for their OSD. Maybe it would be useful... http://betterlogic.com/roger/2011/01/mplayer-counter-resets-while-playing-a-dvd/ (last comment).

added more detail here http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=76308&p=315301#p315301

Original author: gnosygnu