[mythtv-users] DVD Image playback

[Kevin Denniss]

Thanks for the suggestions, your udf comment and a comment that Cory made about the encryption on the image got me thinking.

It turns out that I had incorrectly generated the ISO file, selecting 'DVD - ISO' in Nero instead of 'DVD - Video'. D'oh, I knew it would be something simple!

So you can play the image file directly from MythVideo with:

xine dvd:///%s/

I also add the -pq -V Xv -f --no-splash options and it works perfectly - I'm a very happy chappy now!

Thanks all.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph A. Caputo [mailto:jcaputo1 at comcast.net]
Sent: 05 February 2004 15:34
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Image playback


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



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