As a note for followers, in order to play a dvd chapter from a certain start time (s), this worked for me -- the key being dvdsimple, instead of dvd:// $: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --start-time=5 --stop-time=10 dvdsimple:///Volumes/Dvd_name@4 # chapter 4, start at 5s, end at 10s For s...