[vlc] Play a DVD over LAN via shared drive?

[Boris Dorès]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:54:32PM (GMT+0100), Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> Scott Matthews wrote:
> > Does anybody know how to put a DVD into a drive on one PC, and play that DVD
> > from another PC over the LAN? (I can share the drive and mount it from the
> > 2nd PC, but the DVD playback doesn't work)
> 
> As you just found out yourself that doesn't work and can never work in 
> that way. For DVD access the player needs access to the hardware, which 
> is  not possible if using the drive shared over the Network.

  Actually, it works, but only for unencrypted DVDs (which of course is
not the case for the vast majority of commercial DVDs).

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Boris Dorès