DVD Playing on 2.4.8

[Christophe Massiot]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001, Chris Stevens wrote:

> The dvd is /dev/cdrom
> 
> The 'disk' option appears to do nothing, even after linking /dev/dvd to 
> /dev/cdrom

Try the command-line option :
vlc dvd:/dev/dvd

> If I mount the dvd and use the gtk interface, specifying a .vob directly, 
> it will
> play the file on one of my dvds using the SDL output. However, the rest 
> all give
> read errors even though the directory listing is ok: is this a problem 
> with decoding?
> (Manual copying of the .vobs to /tmp/fails also).

It's probably because your DVD is encrypted. You need to use the
DVD input for that.

> Will videolan handle interactive menus?

We're working on integrating libdvdread for that right now, though no
official timeframe has been set.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.