Good news. The folks at MPlayer have forked libdvdnav, the library responsible for navigating menus on DVDs. Upstream has been dead for quite some time now, but it’s still widely used and it’s a shame it hasn’t been getting the loving care it deserves.
There is already a new mailing list and subversion repository for the forked version.
Hopefully we’ll get to see some improvements and modifications real soon now. If anyone can handle the task, it’s those crazy mplayer devs. Thanks, guys. 🙂