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I have a general question (not sure if it would even be OS specific): I'm trying to launch a DVD movie using VLC's command-line for an RTP stream. The problem I'm having is:

1) dvdsimple plays chapters in the wrong order - which I learned is the way the DVDs are made these days. Playing as dvd and showing the menu plays the chapters correctly. But as I'm looking to stream via RTP, I need it it to get past the disc menu and continue on with the playback.

2) I'd like to be able to by-pass the menu, or have the movie start if no one has clicked the "Play" button on the disc menu for 2 or 3 seconds (or after the first menu loop ends), or maybe simulate clicking the "Play" button via the command-line.

I tried setting the dvdnav --no-dvdnav-menu. It appeared to work from the VLC Player interface and playing on another local VLC Player interface. From the command-line - it gets stuck on the disc menu. Any suggestions to getting the command-line to work with by-passing the disc menu and playing the movie in the correct chapter sequence? DVD is recently purchased, True Grit - from research I learned it's one that has the chapters all mixed up by design.

full list of command-line arguments I have tried:
The option dvdsimple players older DVD movies fine, it seems to be an issue with newer DVDs, playing the chapters out of sequence.
The option dvd and dvdnav do not give me the option to get past the disc menu.

I did read somewhere that I could try moving the title or chapter with but that didn't work at all for me.

Finally, I was looking at the command-line options at https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help/ not sure which options to apply or remove from the above. Maybe if someone has a simplified command-line that allows to by-pass the disc menu, I can go from there.

Any suggestions, or tweaks I should make to the above command-line?

Thank you in advance.

had a typo, should be not dvdnav.

You can either enable or disable the DVD virtual machine. You can't have it both ways.

If you want a specific playback order without the menus, you'll have to disable the VM and select titles one by one as separate playlist items.

Thank you for the quick response.

I'm fairly new-ish to using VLC on a command-line. How do I "enable/disable the DVD VM"? Or is this something that needs to be done in the VLC window interface first before running the command-line I posted above?

Tried some Google searching, and looked through the "all" settings in the VLC interface. I'm not finding anything on enabling/disabling the DVD VM. My apologies for the newbie question above. All I want to do is be able to play a movie from the command-line to RTP stream, either skip the menu or have the menu close after X number of seconds and start the movie from the correct 1st chapter to the end.

Thank you again for your valuable time and support!

Playing with dvdsimple instead of dvdnav disables the DVD VM. Again, you can't have it both ways. It's either one or the other.

Obviously for noninteractive streaming, you need to use dvdsimple, as menus cannot be navigated.