[vlc] does vlc play .iso files directly off the harddrive?

[Scott Matthews]

I'd love to hear your suggestions...

Basically, I'm looking for a way to play DVDs over my LAN (the playback
device doesn't have a DVD drive), but I don't have much need to rip the DVDs
(ie, I don't really need to a library of DVDs on the LAN).

So, I was hoping that I could simply pop the DVD into a PC on the LAN, share
the drive, and play it from another PC -- but I now gather that's not going
to be so stright-forward.

I am hoping to get the conventional "menu" experience, and avoid "guessing
which VOB" to play.

Is it possible to rip a DVD to iso, and play that over the network, still
getting the menu type interface? If not, would that work if I copied the iso
to the local drive?

Thanks again -- I thought this would be simple, and I'll be happy to finally
figure out the right way to do it!

-Scott




> Scott Matthews wrote:
> > Given that I was just asking about playing a DVD over a LAN via a shared
> > drive -- which apparently cannot work -- I gather this is the next best
way
> > to try?
> >
> > In other words, can I:
> > 1) rip a DVD to a .iso file on a network share
> > 2) mount and play that .iso over the network? (including menus, special
> > features, etc?)
> >
> > If so, what is an appropriate tool to use to rip the DVD to iso? (do I
not
> > need to decrypt it when doing so?)
> >
> > thx,  -Scott
> >
>
> Have you considered using VLC in a streaming setup to accomplish this?
> It's fairly easy to run VLC on the remote machine and tell it to serve
> the DVD (a particular title, anyway) over an MPEG-TS to your VLC client,
> then play it from there.
>
> Of course you wouldn't get menu support by doing this, so the usefulness
> of this solution depends on how important that is to you.
>
> In particular, have a look at this section of the manual:
> http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch08.html
>
> Or you can use the streaming wizard in current versions.
>
> Another alternative is to rip the DVD to a directory, using one of the
> many pieces of software that can do this, which should dump a decrypted
> copy of the DVD that VLC will happily play over a network share (since
> the remote decryption is the only tricky part). You can use File -> Open
> Directory on the "VIDEO_TS" folder to do this, among other methods.
>
>
> Neil
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