How do you play a DVD on Android?

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How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby arromdee » 07 Jun 2014 16:46

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7563 was closed as fixed. This ticket is about playing DVDs on Android. How do you do this? I was able to navigate to the folder and play a single .VOB file, but I wasn't able to open the entire folder as a DVD complete with menus. If there's an option to do it it seems to be very well hidden.

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Re: How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby flx42 » 07 Jun 2014 17:44

Support is still experimental but you should be able to see the main menu if you load an ISO file.

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Re: How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby arromdee » 07 Jun 2014 19:16

The ticket is about playing a folder of files, not an ISO. Was it improperly closed?

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Re: How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby flx42 » 08 Jun 2014 11:43

That will be a nice feature to have, I will discuss this with fellow developers, we have many changes planned for DVD playback right now.

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Re: How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 08 Jul 2014 01:59

Usually, people transfer iso, not VIDEO_TS folders...
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Re: How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby arromdee » 13 Jul 2014 06:20

.iso can be a pain when you're using a SD card formatted in FAT32 and the size of the .iso is larger than the max file size. Besides, doesn't the non-android version of vlc already support vob folders?

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Re: How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby edwardw » 13 Jul 2014 16:02

Only ISO files are supported at the moment.

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Re: How do you play a DVD on Android?

Postby Nick Payne » 31 Dec 2014 21:51

I too would like to see support for vob folders. Most DVD ISOs exceed the max file size allowed on fat32, and as the microSD in my tablet has eight times the storage capacity of the tablet itself, it's the only place I can put a DVD image.

I was able to get around the problem for the time being by ccopying the vob folders to the SD card and used the Wondershare player to access them.


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