which DVD player can play DVD from hard drive *and* support DVD Menu ?
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which DVD player can play DVD from hard drive *and* support DVD Menu ?
Mplayer is nice and suports so many types but it does not support DVD menu which is hard to understand. XINE is also a great DVD player but cannot play ISO or *entire* ripped DVD movies from hard drive. OGLE is so unstable and GUI is so inferior.
Anyone knows anything better than XINE and MPLAYER. I really like to see InterVideo DVD on Linux but it seems the effort got lost somehow.
Actually I just found out that XINE can play ripped DVD from hard drive. In the setup input tab just replace the DVD device with the pathname on the hard drive where the movie is. Or one can also edit the 'config' file in .xine directory to specify 'input.dvd_device' to point to where on the hard drive the ripped DVD locates. It works great . I love XINE. Ogle is too buggy and GUI is very inferior.
Originally posted by tho_x_tran Actually I just found out that XINE can play ripped DVD from hard drive. In the setup input tab just replace the DVD device with the pathname on the hard drive where the movie is. Or one can also edit the 'config' file in .xine directory to specify 'input.dvd_device' to point to where on the hard drive the ripped DVD locates. It works great . I love XINE. Ogle is too buggy and GUI is very inferior.
Easy, use either mplayer, transcode, or dvd::rip. The linux way is to use dd and setting the image as a raw device.
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Mplayer is nice and suports so many types but it does not support DVD menu which is hard to understand.
The reason why mplayer does not support DVD menu (dvdnav library) is because the developers do not like the way dvdnav libraries works. The dvdnav library does an MPEG-2 hack to inject the menu information. Many Windows programs uses the MPEG-2 hack method to display navigation menus. I guess mplayer developers is waiting until MPEG-4 hits DVD movies because it is an object base codec that can make dvd navigation menus a little easier to make and to use. DiVix and Xvidx does not comply to MPEG-4 formats. You can look on mplayer's mailing list to see if there is a patch that adds dvdnav support.
Hmm.. Since I have read some essential part of mplayer's manual (i mean the commandline core part, not gmplayer) i never thought about where to get a better player, cause it has literally all the features. Just search trough the manual ('man mplayer', then type '/', enter the search string, and hit Enter, use 'n' to move to the next occurence). I don't know, whether it has the DVD menu support,..
...but you don't really need it for managing your audio/video. The main key commands are left, right, up, down, pgup, pgdown, *, /, space, # (changing the audio tracks on a videoDVD; don't forget to hold Shift), <, > (changing the video tracks, again don't forget Shift). If you're still in trouble, download'n'burn a 6MB geexbox livecd, and forget about these problems.
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