playing dvd files/video from the harddrive

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:17:27 -0700, bruce wrote:

> hi..
> 
> is it possible to use mplayer/xine to play a dvd video/file from the
> harddrive? is it possible to then burn this same file to the dvd disk and
> play it from a hardware DVD player?
> 
> thanks
> 
> bruce
> bedouglas at earthlink.net


Of course. If it's a vob, just 

mplayer file.vob

If it's a dvd, say in a directory called MyMovie (containing AUDIO_TS and
VIDEO_TS) then the trick is to specify the dvd device:

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path/to/MyMovie