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gtm.kramer at inter

Oct 1, 2004, 8:56 AM

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Playing complete DVDs from disk?

Hi,

This probably is asked some time before but...Is is possible to play
complete DVDs from disk with either mythvideo or mythdvd? My mythbox
lacks a dvd drive but I have plenty of diskspace to put some DVDs on it
(vob, ifo, bup files etc).

Greetings,

Jurgen

mlynch at gcom

Oct 1, 2004, 9:14 AM

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Re: Playing complete DVDs from disk? [In reply to]

This works for me:

mplayer -dvd-device /dir/where/IFOandVOBs/are/located/ dvd://1

I don't know if there is a way to make mythvideo do this or not. I'll
defer to someone with more knowlegde.

Jurgen Kramer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>This probably is asked some time before but...Is is possible to play
>complete DVDs from disk with either mythvideo or mythdvd? My mythbox
>lacks a dvd drive but I have plenty of diskspace to put some DVDs on it
>(vob, ifo, bup files etc).
>
>Greetings,
>
>Jurgen
>
>
>
>
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pc-mythtv04 at crowcastle

Oct 1, 2004, 9:18 AM

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Re: Playing complete DVDs from disk? [In reply to]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:56, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> This probably is asked some time before but...Is is possible to play
> complete DVDs from disk with either mythvideo or mythdvd? My mythbox
> lacks a dvd drive but I have plenty of diskspace to put some DVDs on it
> (vob, ifo, bup files etc).

Sure. I use xine as my player for mythvideo, but for files ending in
.dvd, it uses a script that changes the DVD device to the file in xine's
config file before telling xine to play a DVD.

Here's my script:

#!/bin/csh -f
if ( x"$1" == x ) exit 1
mv ~/.xine/config.dvd ~/.xine/config.dvd~
sed '/^input.dvd_device:/s:.*:'$1'' ~/.xine/config.dvd~ >
~/.xine/config.dvd
shift
xine --config ~/.xine/config.dvd $argv

This would be a lot simpler if xine would allow the dvd device to be a
command-line parameter instead of only settable in the gui (or by
hacking the config file where the gui saves it).

This is also a useful trick if you want to take a DVD on a laptop with
you when traveling--I'll bet that the hard drive takes less power than
the DVD drive by a large margin.

--PC

tbdombrosky at gmail

Oct 1, 2004, 9:47 AM

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Re: Playing complete DVDs from disk? [In reply to]

I got this to work with both Xine and Mplayer using ISO images of my
dvds. With Mplayer I mount the ISO using a loopback device, and then
play it using the command mentioned in the first response. Xine
supports ISO files directly with the following command:

xine dvd://filename.iso/

It is possible to get MythVideo to play backups, but not MythDVD.
Just make the backups using iso files and create a new extension in
MythVideo setup. Then for the command to play the iso files, use the
one above or make a script to do it.

Tom

gtm.kramer at inter

Oct 1, 2004, 10:47 AM

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Re: Playing complete DVDs from disk? [In reply to]

OK thanks, that seems to work. Next step would be to get it to use
the DVD menus.

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 18:14, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> This works for me:
>
> mplayer -dvd-device /dir/where/IFOandVOBs/are/located/ dvd://1
>
> I don't know if there is a way to make mythvideo do this or not. I'll
> defer to someone with more knowlegde.
>
>
> Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >This probably is asked some time before but...Is is possible to play
> >complete DVDs from disk with either mythvideo or mythdvd? My mythbox
> >lacks a dvd drive but I have plenty of diskspace to put some DVDs on it
> >(vob, ifo, bup files etc).
> >
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Jurgen
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >mythtv-users mailing list
> >mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
> >

jcaputo1 at comcast

Oct 1, 2004, 11:33 AM

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Re: Playing complete DVDs from disk? [In reply to]

On Friday 01 October 2004 13:47, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> OK thanks, that seems to work. Next step would be to get it to use
> the DVD menus.
>

I'd use Xine for this. Mplayer doesn't support DVD menus (neither
direct from DVD nor otherwise). Ogle might; I'm not sure. I know Xine
supports DVD menus. It also supports playing an ISO image or a
directory as a DVD, IIRC.

-JAC
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Dave.Packham at utah

Oct 1, 2004, 11:40 AM

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RE: Playing complete DVDs from disk? [In reply to]

AND to get some tool to encode the VOB files to xvid or something to
make the whole ISO small and nicly compressed

Dave P

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Playing complete DVDs from disk?

OK thanks, that seems to work. Next step would be to get it to use the
DVD menus.

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 18:14, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> This works for me:
>
> mplayer -dvd-device /dir/where/IFOandVOBs/are/located/ dvd://1
>
> I don't know if there is a way to make mythvideo do this or not. I'll

> defer to someone with more knowlegde.
>
>
> Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >This probably is asked some time before but...Is is possible to play
> >complete DVDs from disk with either mythvideo or mythdvd? My mythbox
> >lacks a dvd drive but I have plenty of diskspace to put some DVDs on
> >it (vob, ifo, bup files etc).
> >
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Jurgen
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >mythtv-users mailing list
> >mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
> >

ivtv at schlomo

Oct 3, 2004, 8:31 AM

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Re: Playing complete DVDs from disk? [In reply to]

Hi,

I use xine dvd://<path-to-ripped-dvd> to play DVDs I copied with dvdbackup
to my HD. Works very well with menues etc.

Schlomo

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Preston Crow wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:56, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > This probably is asked some time before but...Is is possible to play
> > complete DVDs from disk with either mythvideo or mythdvd? My mythbox
> > lacks a dvd drive but I have plenty of diskspace to put some DVDs on it
> > (vob, ifo, bup files etc).
>
> Sure. I use xine as my player for mythvideo, but for files ending in
> .dvd, it uses a script that changes the DVD device to the file in xine's
> config file before telling xine to play a DVD.
>
> Here's my script:
>
> #!/bin/csh -f
> if ( x"$1" == x ) exit 1
> mv ~/.xine/config.dvd ~/.xine/config.dvd~
> sed '/^input.dvd_device:/s:.*:'$1'' ~/.xine/config.dvd~ >
> ~/.xine/config.dvd
> shift
> xine --config ~/.xine/config.dvd $argv
>
> This would be a lot simpler if xine would allow the dvd device to be a
> command-line parameter instead of only settable in the gui (or by
> hacking the config file where the gui saves it).
>
> This is also a useful trick if you want to take a DVD on a laptop with
> you when traveling--I'll bet that the hard drive takes less power than
> the DVD drive by a large margin.
>
> --PC
>
>

--
Regards,
Schlomo

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