[plug] xine query

[John Knight]

Whoah, that's difficult!

xine and MPlayer (and probably most players) are designed to play DVDs when 
they're not mounted. The old way of doing things was to mount the disc, and 
play the .vob files directly, which was very primitive. Now it's meant to 
play unmounted discs and can play encrypted DVDs (which is probably your 
problem) with libdvdcss. Try googling libdvdcss and libdvdread and that 
should help you out (as long as you play 'em directly at least).

If you're playing with weird networky stuff or whatever kind of loopback 
you've got going going on, try out videoLAN, which I thinks is at 
videolan.org.

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"

>Howdy All
>
>I have been trying to get xine to watch some movies I have mounted 
>virtually.
>
>I have a DVD iso mounted on loop and a vcd cue/bin file mounted using 
>cdemu.
>
>I seem to be unable to get xine to play either :(
>
>It keeps throwing an error message about the mrl (media resource locator) 
>not
>understanding the format.
>
>Anyone got any suggestions?
>
>Craig