[mythtv-users] How to play video files from a DVD data disc

[Paul Gardiner]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2010 12:21:30 pm Kevin Ross wrote:
>>> but what's the best way to arrange for the dvd to be mounted,
>> If you're running Gnome, the gnome-volume-manager will automount it
>>  whenever you insert the disc.  I assume KDE has similar functionality (I
>>  don't use KDE).
>>
>> If you aren't using Gnome or KDE, I think autofs will do the trick.
> 
> Assuming you live where it's legal, could you just rip it with HandBrake or 
> something similar and thus get a playable single file, probably h264 which 
> would also require less space?

Actually the files were produced by Handbrake. They used to be on my
server and playable from there. They are nice small files for the
quality, but they mount up over time, so I've since archived them
onto a DVD. I thought there might be some simple trick to playing
them from the DVD, but maybe not.

autofs sounds like the right sort of thing, so maybe I should
look into that, but it might be difficult with minimyth unless
it already has autofs.

Cheers,
	Paul.