Play DVD Titles and Chapters

[David Sinclair]

Wanting to know if any one has code examples to have Windows Media Centre or maybe Cyberlink PowerDVD, load and play a predetermined DVD Tile & Chapter. Wanting to list in a table various scenes or chapters from DVDs that are stored on a HDD and have Access play these. Currently have Access play the whole DVD; now want it to play just a predetermined part. Any ideas?

 

[nIGHTmAYOR]

god i love that
the very next thing , i want access to to turn on my house lights on predefined time queries (which is possible btw).
ok the answer to this comes at cost :
check this out this link for a variety of active x controls that enables you to do vertualy anything regarding video playing , streaming and editing.
http://video-playback-ocx.vista-files.org/
now as for powerdvd i just checked and no , it doesnt install referances for visual basic to control but still you can use sendkeys access function to trigger its short cut keys (^P blas blas) but then you wouldnt be able to retrieve times or chapter informations , feddling with winamp however can leave you with a saved playlist file that is in text format you can access and retrieve data from.
but heck why the bother realy ? are you trying to create a media indexer ?
why wouldnt you google programs that do that ?

 

[David Sinclair]

Your suggestion of using SendKey commands is valid but the issue is that not all DVD’s have the main movie as Title 1 this can change. What Access has to do is tell the player to first select the folder, then the title and finally the Chapter. Programs like PowerDVD must record this information because when a DVD is played again there is the option of resuming where last played. Presumably if a process could be worked out how to use this information one might be able to have one of the various commercial player work in conjunction with Access. The other option is to have Access control Windows Media Player. Typically when playing a DVD with Windows Media Player the properties screen will show the following;

“wmpdvd://D/2/3?contentdir=D:\video_ts”

which tells me that currently I am playing Title 2, Chapter 3.

Hope this will help discussion on the subject.

 

[nIGHTmAYOR]

oh if the interest comes at basic play i'd suggest using both ActiveMovie Control and MS Video Control which are reliant on installed video codecs (in which case you need to install a valied mpeg2 codec) and then you provide arguments as of where to start , stop , etc.

 

[nIGHTmAYOR]

ps :
i tried once to referance Windows Media Player libraries but i had several error messages which i'm not sure if they are due to restrictions from microsoft or corrupted installation or version issue and thats why i'm avoiding further talks in its direction.

 

[David Sinclair]

Thanks for the info on your experience with Windows Media Plyer. Now having a look at VLC Media Player to see if I may be able to communicate with that.

http://www.videolan.org

If you want to have a look.

 

[nIGHTmAYOR]

no i know of it (nope doesnt leave referances) yet its open sourced , so take a look at its source see if you can make yourself a custom build you can communicate with