Viewing A DVD on Another PC on my network

[MartyK1]

Hello,
I need some help people.
I have a DVD on PC A . I am currently on PC B on my network and wish to watch the DVD. (I dont want to move the DVD physically to PC A - er not just a lazy sod honest - Long term I want to put a 300 DVD player on PC A and keep all my DVD's there)

So I went to PC B - started the player - select DVD and looked at the MRL default - thought "what on earth!" (no really I dont swear <G>).
Can someone give me an example of an MRL that will let me read the shared DVD on PC A - Windows OS please. (Assume the path to the share is \\PCA\DVDRW)

Will this work or do I have to so something else more clever instead
in that case How and what ???????

mayday mayday mayday

Thanks for any help
Martyk

[fkuehne]

You need to stream the DVD to your other computer by using the VLC-stream-output or VLS. Thus you have to select a Network-Input on your receiving computer.

[MartyK]

thanks for that
er can you give me a detailed example plz
sorry am newbie and manual looks like martian to me at the moment

[fkuehne]

thanks for that
er can you give me a detailed example plz

Well, I'm going to describe how to stream with VLC, since I don't how to do so with VLS. More details should be available in the VLC user guide, as far as I know.

First you open the "open disc"-dialog. In this dialog, you select your DVD. At the bottom of the window, there should be something about "Stream Output" or "Advanced Output" (I don't know the windows-dialog exactly since I use Mac OS X only.) There you select HTTP as the streaming method, "MPEG TS" as the encapsulation method and finally enter an IP-address (which should be the IP of your serving PC) and a port-number (you may also use the default value 1234). Then you leave the "open disc"-dialog by pushing OK.
After that, you go to your client-PC, open the "open network"-dialog and enter the informations which you entered in the "Stream Output"-dialog of your serving VLC. Afterwards, you leave the "open network"-dialog and you should see your DVD.

I haven't tested this with a DVD though, but it should run. If not, may be anyone else might help you...

Sorry for the late response. I have been quite busy during the last days...

[MartyK1]

hi,
That didnt work but i Finally got it working on UDP so my guess would be a firewall setting.

now I play a dvd and it has a menu on if - you knw the sort - 1 to play 2 to change settings etc.
How can I select an option from my remote pc??? they dont always default to play after a while so this is quite important


thanks
Martyk

[antinort]

Interesting, I'm at the same point. I can use the http interface to start streaming the DVD, but I haven't figured out how to use the http interface to simulate the arrow keys that I'd use to navigate the DVD menu if I was playing the DVD locally.

[markfm]

I've not used it, but believe there's a Telnet interface in VLC (if you have it enabled).

[antinort]

Yes, I use that to start vlc too (vlc -I rc), but it doesn't seem to have a way to control DVD menus either. Sure I can create a playlist with either the remote console or the http interface and play each vob, but that's not the same as using the on screen DVD menus as I can when I'm playing a DVD locally. The http interface seems to have many functions, so I'm hoping that it's hiding in there.

[Gibalou]

This menus problem is exactly the reason why there are two DVD plugins included in VLC (actually there is also an experimental one as well). One supports menu and another one doesn't and is more suited for streaming.

Also in your case, streaming might not be the best solution. I would rather recommend sharing your DVD drive on the network. This will work perfectly has long as the DVD is authenticated before it is shared (you just need to play it for a few seconds on the server).