On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:15:54 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:34:11 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > OK. Copying the DVD to my hard drive works, provided I do it as root. > I need root because the top-level directory on my DVD has *no > permissions whatsoever*. The files within this directory, though, have > reasonable permissions for user, group, world. But the uid and gid are > -1. > > VLC will only play the first program in the files so copied. > > To get the rest, I use a program I found at > http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/ DVD-VR/ which links to > http://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/dvd-vr/ It reads the IFO and VRO files > and puts together a sequence of VOB files. > > VLC will play these VOB files. > > I've used more disk space on my laptop this week than I've used in the > previous year, though -- essentially two copies of the data on the DVD. > It wold be good to find some way to combine all this hackery so as not > to need all that file space. > > -- hendrik
So, is the stuff in that program from http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/ DVD- VR/ that decodes .VRO files something that VLC (and other media players) should do in a streaming style to avoid using all that temporary disk space? Or should it be a file system that VLC just reads stuff from? Where's the proper place to discuss this? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j8s090$vcr$1...@dough.gmane.org
