Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Tracks that have segment maps can, in many cases, produce individual tracks for each segment. This can add a significant amount of bulk to the track table during the disc identification process.
Conceptual examples are:
- a deleted scenes play all track in which each deleted scene is also its own independent track
- a disc in which special features appear as the feature only and as the feature with a post credits/copyright track
- a disc in which the main title is present in multiple versions (languages, releases)
- In this case each segment of the main title appears as a separate track, each one looking just like an extra feature but it is actually just a main title scene.
Describe the solution you'd like
Stretch goal that I would not expect to be addressed anytime soon, but it would be super helpful at sorting through the clutter for discs with many, many tracks if segment tracks were presented as a tree view instead of all tracks presented in a linear table view. Then we could visualize hierarchical relationships between tracks, which would substantially help with labelling and identification for certain discs that heavily leverage hierarchical segment maps.
Playlists and segments that are not included in any playlists would be top-level nodes. Segments that belong to a playlist would be child nodes of each parent node they belong to. Playlists that are a proper subset of another playlist (a run of segments in the same order but less at least one beginning or ending segments) would be a child node of the parent playlist.
Describe alternatives you've considered
A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.
Additional context
An excellent example is the X Files: I Want To Believe Blu-ray (no URL yet, pending import). This was a painful identification. It features a theatrical and extended release. For space saving, the extended portions are split as separate segments (18 through 25) interleaved with the non-extended segments (1 through 17). This means every segment of the theatrical release AND the extended release is it's own track (which I labeled as feature segment and extended feature segment to help me keep track of what had been touched and what was missing). I wish these could have been collapsed underneath the actual main title tracks so they could be wholesale ignored.
Additionally, this disc features an interactive feature. The interactive feature includes 87 video clips, each video clip as a segment of a single playlist (00042.mpls) and as it's own track (00051.m2ts through 00137.m2ts). This creates a disc with 153 rows in the table. A tree view would probably reduce it down to a couple dozen playlists. The linear table view makes for a lot of fluff to sort through that otherwise could be quickly collectively identified, labeled, and dismissed.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Tracks that have segment maps can, in many cases, produce individual tracks for each segment. This can add a significant amount of bulk to the track table during the disc identification process.
Conceptual examples are:
Describe the solution you'd like
Stretch goal that I would not expect to be addressed anytime soon, but it would be super helpful at sorting through the clutter for discs with many, many tracks if segment tracks were presented as a tree view instead of all tracks presented in a linear table view. Then we could visualize hierarchical relationships between tracks, which would substantially help with labelling and identification for certain discs that heavily leverage hierarchical segment maps.
Playlists and segments that are not included in any playlists would be top-level nodes. Segments that belong to a playlist would be child nodes of each parent node they belong to. Playlists that are a proper subset of another playlist (a run of segments in the same order but less at least one beginning or ending segments) would be a child node of the parent playlist.
Describe alternatives you've considered
A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.
Additional context
An excellent example is the X Files: I Want To Believe Blu-ray (no URL yet, pending import). This was a painful identification. It features a
theatricalandextendedrelease. For space saving, the extended portions are split as separate segments (18through25) interleaved with the non-extended segments (1through17). This means every segment of the theatrical release AND the extended release is it's own track (which I labeled asfeature segmentandextended feature segmentto help me keep track of what had been touched and what was missing). I wish these could have been collapsed underneath the actual main title tracks so they could be wholesale ignored.Additionally, this disc features an interactive feature. The interactive feature includes 87 video clips, each video clip as a segment of a single playlist (
00042.mpls) and as it's own track (00051.m2tsthrough00137.m2ts). This creates a disc with 153 rows in the table. A tree view would probably reduce it down to a couple dozen playlists. The linear table view makes for a lot of fluff to sort through that otherwise could be quickly collectively identified, labeled, and dismissed.