(Hopefully) simple question: DVD menus?

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(Hopefully) simple question: DVD menus?

Postby jheikkinen » 11 Nov 2009 09:36

I have a rip of a DVD in a directory on my hard drive, with a VIDEO_TS folder and the other usual stuff that goes with that. When I open VLC, choose "Open folder" and point it there, I expected it to show me a DVD menu as though I had simply put the DVD in a normal DVD player. Instead, it started playing what appeared to be a Deleted Scenes feature, with no immediately obvious way of navigating to anything else, and none of the usual DVD controls such as a Menu button in evidence. How do I get to the menus?

In case the platform matters this was on Windows 7. I tried searching (though I couldn't find a way to look for an exact phrase such as "DVD menu") and checked the basic playback FAQ (didn't see anything of obvious relevance).

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Re: (Hopefully) simple question: DVD menus?

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Re: (Hopefully) simple question: DVD menus?

Postby mc2man » 11 Nov 2009 16:58

with vlc 1.X.X you may lose dvd navigation if opening a VIDEO_TS or folder holding one as a folder or dir.
In which case open as a disc instead
media -> open disc and browse to VIDEO_TS or folder holding one

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Re: (Hopefully) simple question: DVD menus?

Postby jheikkinen » 11 Nov 2009 19:40

with vlc 1.X.X you may lose dvd navigation if opening a VIDEO_TS or folder holding one as a folder or dir.
In which case open as a disc instead
media -> open disc and browse to VIDEO_TS or folder holding one
Thank you, that not only addressed the question I actually asked (unlike the other response, which told me to try something I already tried and pointed me to a post irrelevant to my issue), but worked too! I didn't try that because I had assumed, based on other players, that it would only look in my DVD drive. Good to know VLC is more flexible in that respect.


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