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Found VLC v2.0 release notes, which say, among other things: * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd title: vlc dvd://#1:2-...

After I posted this, I found http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Play_HowTo/Advanced_Use_of_VLC, which, among other things, says that the dvdsimple MRL goes like this: % vlc dvdsimple://[device][@raw_device][@[title][:[chapter][:angle]]] which, apart from the abomination that is C-shell, seems fa...

If I try to play a DVD that has multiple items on it with VLC, I get a menu which allows me to select which item I want to play. (By "item", I'm not talking about chapters of a movie; items may be different episodes of a series, or even separate movies on the same DVD). When I'm streaming ...