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Does anybody know of a way to get the length of any/all the video tracks on a DVD? libvlc_media_player_get_length(p_md) works nicely for the current track, but I'd like to be able to get the length of all the tracks without first playing each one. Does anybody know of an API call where I can pass in...

Tracks are the list of channels. Not "titles"

So these should work for the OP use case...

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libvlc_media_player_get_title_count libvlc_media_player_set_title libvlc_media_player_get_title

Thanks, that looks like it should do it.

Terry

Tracks are the list of channels. Not "titles"

Thanks, that explains why I didn't get what I was expecting.

Terry

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Try dvd:///media/Atlantis/VIDEO_TS/

That worked! Thanks you!

I've been working on this for days.

Terry

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