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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)
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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
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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).
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In what media format (mp4, avi, ...) are those files?
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I think I played those files once with a VLC player. So try VLC player.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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Thank you, graysky! I'll have a look at it as well.
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