[Solved] how to open video_ts file

amaro · 2017-10-15 09:10:21

Hey, guys!

I have a seminar recording on 8 dvds. All of them show like VIDEO_TS in thunar and don't play. Tried them on LinuxMintDebian and there they appear like empty dvds.
They play fine on Win7 but I want to watch them on Arch.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by amaro (2017-10-15 09:53:34)

V1del · 2017-10-15 09:29:19

What how and where are you trying to play them? Thunar is not a video player, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … e#Playback

amaro · 2017-10-15 09:32:59

I know Thunar will not play them. I just explain how they appear: type - unknown type, size - 0 bytes. As for playing I use mpv mostly (sometimes smplayer).

momu · 2017-10-15 09:46:18

In what media format (mp4, avi, ...) are those files?

momu · 2017-10-15 09:49:25

I think I played those files once with a VLC player. So try VLC player.

V1del · 2017-10-15 09:50:14

And? does pointing mpv to the disk device (/dev/sr0 or /dev/cdrom) work? Going by what thunar shows is not going to be indicative of much, as this will be dependant on whatever mount handler there is.

Gusar · 2017-10-15 09:52:06

Sound like you have a DVD structure. Might work by using the directory that contains the VIDEO_TS dir as the dvd device:

mpv --dvd-device=/path/to/the/dir dvd://

If you need menus, you're better of with VLC than mpv. No clue if VLC can work by pointing to a DVD structure like with mpv, but maybe it does.

Edit: Oh, are these actual DVDs? At first I thought you have files on your disk that are structured like on a dvd. If they're actual DVDs, just open them as such, pretty much every player can do it (but mpv doesn't support menus).

Last edited by Gusar (2017-10-15 09:54:51)

amaro · 2017-10-15 09:52:52

Thanks for the link, V1del!
Installed dvdbackup and vlc and everything is allright.

P.S. Gusar's suggestion also works. I will extract them with dvdbackup and then use mpv.
Thank you guys!

Last edited by amaro (2017-10-15 10:03:16)

graysky · 2017-10-15 10:03:39

Dunno about your use case but if it's storing DVDs, have you considered transcoding to save space? Handbrake works well for this and can read these natively.

amaro · 2017-10-15 10:44:01

Thank you, graysky! I'll have a look at it as well.

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