Re: [xine-user] Playing DVDs copied with vobcopy -m?

[Jeremy G. <yd1...@sn...>]

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:45:28 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton
James-at-superbug.demon.co.uk |xine-user|
<uak...@sn...> wrote:
> Jeremy Gilbert wrote:
> > I have a very old DVD drive that often has trouble playing DVDs
> > directly off the drive, but I can use vobcopy and then play from the
> > hard drive.
> >
> > My question is, can I play a DVD from the hard drive as if it were
> > still on the DVD (i.e. with all the menus in use)?  Currently, I can
> > play all the .VOB files, but I can't figure out how to make xine
> > recognize the menus.  What I do is use `vobcopy -m` to mirror the DVD
> > filesystem on the hard drive.  I've tried telling xine that the dvd
> > device is the location of the mirrored DVD, but xine apparently
> > expects an actual DVD drive, so that doesn't work.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy
> >
> 
> xine dvd://path-to-DVD-image/
> 
> So, if the .IFO and .VOB files are in /home/user/dvd/dvd-name
> use xine like this
> xine dvd://home/usr/dvd/dvd-name/
> 
> You have to use the full path. If you cd /home/usr/dvd, and then use
> xine dvd://dvd-name/
> it will not work.
> 
> 

Forgot to mention, I did try that also.  This is what I get:

prompt:/media/dvd$ xine dvd://media/dvd/ALIAS_SEASON_2_DISC_6
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.2.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc5 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/jgilbert/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP.
Aborted


Any other ideas?
Jeremy