[MPlayer-users] Playing a DVD from the Hard Drive
Van Leer
vanleer at freemail.it
Thu Jan 16 09:57:20 CET 2003
D Richard Felker III wrote:
>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:26:20PM -0800, usenet at wingert.org wrote:
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>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>I vobcopy'ed a DVD onto my hard drive. Is there a way to make mplayer player
>>this as a dvd (ie mplayer -dvd 1 /dvd/moviename). I used mplayer VTS_1_*.VOB,
>>but it is not the same.
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>Answer #1. This is the WRONG WAY to copy a DVD. Instead use mplayer
>-dvd 1 -dumpstream to dump the whole thing to one big file, or
>the play_title tool from libdvdread.
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>Answer #2. It might work with mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device
>/path/to/vobs.
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>Answer #3. But it might not if the junky program you used to copy the
>vobs left them encrypted. In that case you need to figure out the
>title keys, install libcss (which is deprecated), and use the -dvdkey
>option with mplayer.
>
Probably I'm wrong but I believe that vobcopy decrypts the VOBS before
copying them on the HD.
By means of -dumpstream you will face the 2Gb file limit problem, or
probably it happens only on _my_ linux-box
VanLeer
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>Rich
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