Re: [VCDImager] SEGMENT dir in svcd images

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Kim Helenius wrote:

> First of all I'd like to say vcdimager is a very useful little utility so
> big thanks to the coder :) However! Some evil software players, such as
> windvd, and some standalone dvdplayers base their svcd identification on
> the SEGMENT directory. I still don't know why, the directory is usually
> empty and optional (afaik) anyway. Windvd does have the playlist function
> but it would still be nice to be able to add it in the images (maybe an
> option for adding it?) as I haven't found a way to add a directory to the
> image structure. If there already is a way to do this, please enlighten me
> and forget my ramblings ;) Thank you.

there's no way at the moment to add an empty dir yet... other than editing
the source code :)

next release (0.6.1) will add that empty dir by default;

if you can't wait for it, you can check out the
cvs repo tagged with "rel_0_6_branch"...

(or just apply the following patch)

Index: libvcd/vcd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/vcdimager/libvcd/vcd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -r1.37 vcd.c
--- libvcd/vcd.c        2001/04/15 16:28:32     1.37
+++ libvcd/vcd.c        2001/04/20 15:17:04
@@ -827,6 +827,7 @@

   case VCD_TYPE_SVCD:
     _vcd_directory_mkdir (obj->dir, "EXT");
+    _vcd_directory_mkdir (obj->dir, "SEGMENT");
     _vcd_directory_mkdir (obj->dir, "MPEG2");
     if (obj->broken_svcd_mode_flag)
       {



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