[mythtv-users] DVD Image playback

[papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu]

	My main question is regarding the DVD encryption.  How'd you cook up 
the iso?  If the DVD is encrypted, I don't think you can do that... I think 
you've have to decrypt the VOBs, and then remaster the image.  Should still be 
doable, and probably the best way to archive DVDs.  Regarding xine issues 
between image/loopback playback, can't help you.

-Cory

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, 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
>  
> Kevin
>  
> (I'm using Fedora core1 with Axel's rpm's after following Jarrod's guide and installed
> xine through apt-get if that has any importance!)
>  
>  
>  
> 
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