On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 05:01:41PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:44:17PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > > > I can play movies from a USB stick. I cannot play DVDs with one. A DVD > > > is not a file; it holds files. > > > > A DVD contains multiple files. Placing all those files in a directory > > works the same as being on a DVD to many player programs and gives you > > all the menus and special features and everything. You simply tell VLC > > to open the folder, not the file. > > If I don't have a DVD player, how can I transfer a DVD to anything?
You get external DVD drive, you use dvdbackup to transfer the disc to a folder, then bring the folder on your harddisk or a usb key and play it when you want. The external DVD drive can stay home unless you plan to transfer a new DVD while out. Conviniently external DVD drive can work with a new machine in the future that does not have an internal DVD drive (seems hardly any do anymore). -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
