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a chapter doesn't make sense without title. OK, but what makes sense to VLC as the name of a title and chapter? When I'm playing the video, I see "Title 1" and "Chapter 2" in menu options. So should the notation be "@Title 1:Chapter 2", or "@1:2"... or is the...

IIRC it is "dvd://PATH@TITLE:CHAPTER" on VLC 1.1 and earlier, "dvd://PATH#TITLE:CHAPTER" on VLC 1.2 and later. In the documentation, title and chapter have brackets around them separately, so it looks like #TITLE is optional. Despite the documentation, is the title mandatory in ...

The list of chapters, titles, and chapters per titles is available in the navigation menu of the main UI. Oh, good, I finally found radio buttons for the four chapters. But they don't play anything. And they only appear when the directory is opened, not when the video file is selected. Playback > N...

Yes, that's how hardware behaves. How does one get a list of valid VLC chapter identifiers? Trying to tell VLC on the command line to go to chapter 2 doesn't seem to do anything but produce an error. Is chapter two known as 0002, 000002, or does it have a name? The VLC documentation only shows a pre...

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So, does VLC not support the same kind of chapters that other DVD readers support? What is VLC's definition of what is a "chapter"?

Sorry I haven't played around with chapters on VLC, though the documenation indicates it should work. May be a silly question but does the DVD work correctly on a hardware player (it could be an authoring issue, especially if it's a non-commercial DVD)? Yes, it was in use in a DVD player. It actual...

I don't know specifically about VLC and DVD chapters, however I wonder if you are trying too hard here. VLC can play the DVD directly, either directly from the DVD media, or from a folder (just copy the complete DVD files to a folder). Then use either "open disc" or "open folder"...

I found in dvd::rip a list of four chapters:
#1 [00:04:32]
#2 [00:08:11]
#3 [00:04:47]
#4 [00:05:59]

But I tried telling VLC to play chapters, and VLC gave errors that indicated that it couldn't find anything.

I have a DVD which was created for an educational institution, with 4 short videos on it. VLC's onscreen display of the contents only shows one video. A video conversion tool is able to find all 4 videos. Apparently the .VOB file contains an MPEG video (thus probably MPEG-2). How do I get a list of ...