[mythtv-users] DVD Image playback

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 17:29, Kevin Denniss wrote:
> Okay, this is slightly off topic but not by too much I hope! I'm also
> hoping that someone can point me in the right direction because I'm
> sure I've read a post about this before, and now I want it I can't
> find it anywhere. Clearly my skills on search engines need help! 
> I want to put my DVD collection onto hard drive so I can play them
> back through MythVideo. Because I'm really fussy about these things I
> want to keep all the chapter marks and subtitles, so I decided that
> transcoding the movies into avi wasn't going to do what I wanted. 
> So I figured that ripping the DVD to an ISO image on the hardrive may
> be the way to go. That way you get to keep all the features and still
> only put a single file on the harddrive for each movie. I decided to
> use Xine since that handles menus and subtitles properly which
> mplayer doesn't yet do. 
> I was under the impression that you could play the iso with:
>  
> xine dvd:///path/to/ios/
>  
> However this complains that it can't access the device or wrong MRL,
>  the terminal window I launched xine from tells me it can't find the
> VIDEO_TS files. 
> I therefore tried mounting the ISO image with:
>  
> mount -o loop -t iso9660 -r /path/to/iso /mnt/dvd
>  
> That works and I can see the contents of the ISO image so I'm sure
> the image file is okay (but I can't play the mounted ISO filesystem
> either). 
> Play back of real DVD's is fine so I know xine is working.
>  
> I'm sure this something I've seen done before and I'm sure I'm
> missing something really obvious so any help would be very much
> appreciated. 
> Many thanks

AFAIK, Xine supports playing DVD images ripped to a directory, not an 
ISO image, so if you have an ISO image you need to mount it as a 
loopback device (as you did).  You might want to try using "-t udf" 
instead of "-t iso9660" in your mount options.

-JAC