Watching video from dvd files doesn't work

[pete watson]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Ulrich Grün <ulrich.gruen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Does anybody know whow to watch a video in the filesystem in dvd structure
> (/
> VIDEO.TS) ?
> It seems that a video with dvd structure can be played only if it can be
> found
> at /dev/dvd (or so), but not if it's in the file system.
> I think, that this wouldn't be hard to do, but somehow xine, kmplayer, et
> al,
> cannot open files like VIDEO_TS.IFO.
> While I'm able to play the .vob files, I'm not able to get the dvd menu.
>
> Does anybody know how to solve this?
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xine dvd:/full/path/to/dvdfiles/VIDEO_TS/

works for me, note the last slash is essential.

HTH

Pete
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