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how to play VOB files using xine?

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Serge Khmelevsky

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Apr 28, 2009, 12:40:07 AM4/28/09
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Hi, some VOB files has the menus and I cannot understand how to handle
such menus.
My favorite video player is xine, so I have googled how to handle DVD
menus with it and found something about libdvdcss and xine-dvdnav. I
cannot find these packages in the repository.

Cheers,
Serge.


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JoeHill

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Apr 28, 2009, 2:00:25 AM4/28/09
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Serge Khmelevsky wrote:

> Hi, some VOB files has the menus and I cannot understand how to handle
> such menus.
> My favorite video player is xine, so I have googled how to handle DVD
> menus with it and found something about libdvdcss and xine-dvdnav. I
> cannot find these packages in the repository.

Can you play DVD's at all? ie. play the video without the menus?

GXine will play DVD menus, and has a 'keypad' to mimic the navigation with the
remote.

If you cannot play DVD's at all, then you need libdvdread, and for that you
would need to enable the debian multimedia repository in your software sources.

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Serge Khmelevsky

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Apr 28, 2009, 5:40:11 AM4/28/09
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Yes, xine plays DVD fine. I cannot use menus on DVD in gXine too. May
be additional plugins are required?

Cheers,
Serge.

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI

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Apr 28, 2009, 7:50:09 AM4/28/09
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On Ter, 28 Abr 2009, Serge Khmelevsky wrote:
> Hi, some VOB files has the menus and I cannot understand how to handle
> such menus.
> My favorite video player is xine, so I have googled how to handle DVD
> menus with it and found something about libdvdcss and xine-dvdnav. I
> cannot find these packages in the repository.

If these VOBs form a DVD structure (VIDEO_TS directory, files with
names such as VTS_01_1.VOB or something similar), you can run
something like

xine dvd:/path/to/your/dvd/structure

If not, then you could try to form a DVD structure, but the files have
to contain the whole DVD, menus and everything. You may have only the
video itself.

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Serge H.

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Apr 28, 2009, 9:40:12 AM4/28/09
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> If these VOBs form a DVD structure (VIDEO_TS directory, files with
> names such as VTS_01_1.VOB or something similar), you can run
> something like
> xine dvd:/path/to/your/dvd/structure
>
>
> If not, then you could try to form a DVD structure, but the files have
> to contain the whole DVD, menus and everything. You may have only the
> video itself.
This works! Thank you, Eduardo!
Before, I've tried open the VOB files directly.

Cheers,
Serge.

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