How do I play a local DVD copy in “DVD mode” using Xine and/or Mplayer?

Question

I have a local copy of entire DVD's VIDEO_TS directory.

How can I use Xine or Mplayer to play it in a "DVD mode"?

That means for me:

• that menus are recognized as such,
• I can select language and other DVD-related options from DVD's menu, rather than from command line
• I can navigate through titles, rather than VOB files.

Answer 1

Assuming your dvd folder is /path/to/movie/VIDEO_TS, try

xine dvd:///path/to/movie/

or

vlc dvd:///path/to/movie/

mplayer plays the movie, but I couldn't get it to play it in DVD mode. Apparently, the packaged builds of mplayer don't quite have menu navigation support yet.

mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device '/path/to/movie'

If your build of mplayer has dvd menu support, you should be able to invoke it using dvdnav:// instead of dvd://