k3b: the king of wasting disks

[Paul Smith]

On 12/27/05, Kenny Gow <kgfedora at swbell.net> wrote:
> > Your approach, Kenny, is quite effective and simple, and inspired the
> > following alternative method:
> >
> > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video
> > /path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
> >
> Cool. I hadn't looked closely enough at the growisofs man page
> to see that you could pass mkisofs options.
>
> In any event, I like to create the DVD images so I can test them
> with xine, usually to see if my custom menus work, etc.
>
> xine can play a DVD iso image or by full path to
> /path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
>
> e.g.,
>
> xine dvd:/full/path/to/dvd.iso
>
> or
>
> xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
>
> and even
>
> xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts/VIDEO_TS
>
> works too!

Thanks again, Kenny. That is a piece of very useful information.

Paul