DVD Menu

[13bc08]

Connecting with iPad to Synology NAS: all well. No way to choose an option from the menu by tapping on the screen.
Any idea?

[masayan24]

Same above. Hope we can.

[antoniocavalcante]

I hope so.

[fkuehne]

We don't support DVD menu rendering on iOS for legal reasons and this is unlikely to change soon. The problem here is not Apple but the developers who did the code for VLC 10 years ago, which we cannot legally use on iOS.

[baumaeschi]

"We don't support DVD menu rendering on iOS for legal reasons". Could you give some more information about this? I mean, VLC is running on iPad, iPhone, Apple TV. So the code is running on Apple devices. Where exactly is the legal problem?
Is there a way to play specific .VOB Files when you open a DVD ISO file with VLC on iPad or Apple TV?
This would be a workaround for the missing DVD Menu rendering feature.

[fkuehne]

The problem is the DVD playback library that VLC uses to render DVD menus called libdvdnav. It is licensed under the GPLv2, which is incompatible with the App Store Terms of Service. Since the authors of the library are partially anonymous, there is no way for us to ask them to relicense their code so we could legally distribute it on the App Store. So, the legal implication here is not pressure from Apple or something, but that we cannot distribute the open-source software we use on all other platforms on iOS, iPadOS and Apple TV.

VLC supports playback of individual VOB files on iPad and Apple TV based on a simplified MPEG PS demuxer, but it will not show a menu or allow navigation. It cannot decrypt .iso images.