there have been numerous bugs in MakeMKV/mkvtoolnix and the like over the years that have required people to rerip their content. if I want to have a theatrical and director's cut of a movie that is stored on disc as seamless branching, I have to waste a lot of space if I would remux both of theģ) remux is actually changing the content, in a way that is just suspectible to bugs. its the 'source of truth' and should be able to used as suchĢ) seamless branching. This isn't out of the realm of possibility but I'm afraid the number of people who would need this functionality would be very small these days.ġ) some people want to store the full optical media (say on their nas), i.e. If all we're going to do is try and interpret the playlist and stream the main feature (which, BTW, would not really be a straightforward undertaking) then why not just use one of the available tools to convert that feature to a file format?

Most of the time, when people ask for support of disc structures, they want the menu systems involved with them. But then you have to ask how many people will actually need or take advantage of that. (maybe you do support it?) this is the same. There's no real reason why you couldn't use the cue file to stream individual tracks. Think of it this way, imagine a user had a cue file for a cd image. one just has to be able to use specified playlists.

I really think people get hung up on the concept that if its a disc 'if it's a disc, we'd have to stream the menus and that just doesn't work', when one doesn't. all user has to do is provide metadata that maps a program (dvd, though I believe dvd isn't as nice for this as bluray, as the mepg program concept mixes instructions and video data into the same stream, which makes predictability hard to impossible)) or a playlist (bluray) to a title and you can treat that as a file.

just like if playing a file that isn't supported but whose codecs are, you remux on the fly, this poc demonstrates that the same can be done with discs. the github project I linked above: ) is a demonstration of how any streaming device can support it.

Disc formats are a different issue though as no streaming device will support those.Įxcept this (i.e.

Makemkv rogue one which mpls