Programming a DVD player application

[Qjimbo]

Does anyone know where the best place to start is when writing a DVD player app? It doesn't have to be any thing fancy, I'm going to use the standard DirectShow stuff. But I'm hoping to somehow analyze the decoded audio (I'd only need one channel really), and develop a way of mapping out the silent parts and skipping them.

Any resources you folks can point me to about it?
Thanks!

[Kurtnoise]

what language would you like to use ? C/C++/C#, Delphi ??

[Qjimbo]

Oh I program in Delphi! I was a bit nervous about putting it in case there were no resources for that language and it put people off posting.

[CyberShaman]

http://www.progdigy.com/ is a good resource for Delphi.

Also be sure to study the Microsoft's DirectShow help from DirectX SDK or from here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/directx9_c/directx/htm/directshow.asp) .

[Sirber]

I haerd of a SDK to use DirectX with delphi... but I don,t remember the name. It has DVD playback...

[Qjimbo]

Thanks for the links guys! I did find quite a cool thing called MPEG2Lib, which provides a more controllable MPEG2 player, but it has no audio support! I do have a more ambitious plan in mind involving actually cutting the vob file up into each non-silent section, but I'll have to read up on the vob and ac3 spec :P This is gonna be quite challenging.

[celyo]

You also should try www.clootie.ru packages and see MS DirectShow Docs.

Btw my player is also developed in delphi.