Re: [xine-user] Can Xine play a mounted ISO DVD image?

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Rohan Parkes wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 07:17, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>On 07/11/03 14:01, Rohan Parkes wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 06:33, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>>You sure that's not an IO throughput issue of your hardware?
>>>
>>>
>>>It could be, but I wouldn't know what to look for. It's a 100 Mbps
>>>ethernet LAN, using Samba (the ISO images are on an XP machine). If
>>
>>Didn't someone else already comment that doing this over Samba would result 
>>in terrible performance?  I think they stated that it must be on a local disk.
> 
> 
> That's why I noted that Samba might be the problem. However, I would
> have liked more information on this before giving up on it - is it Samba
> specifically that's the problem, or any type of network? The whole point
> of doing this was to run the DVDs over a network to a combination of
> Windows and Linux machines. If it's not possible, there's no point in
> continuing. Even if I placed the DVDs on a Linux host, they would only
> be available to a Windows box via Samba, so I would presumably run into
> the same problem form the other end, unless Windows does a better job of
> reading the stream.
> 
Have you looked into using videolan ?

Details of the samba problem: -
I have never tryied playing a DVD over samba, but I heard reports that 
it has file length issues. The issue was that it could not seek 
correctly. I.E. Play a DVD menu, but need to open a different .ifo file, 
so seek in the image for the ifo file, but if the .ifo file is located 
too far from the .vob, the seek will fail.

So, standard file copies work, but if you have to start seeking round in 
a large file, it will fail.