#VLC DVD PLAYERS MOVIE#
#VLC DVD PLAYERS WINDOWS#

In KDE it is nicely integrated with the rest of the desktop and the file manager, but it works well in other desktops too. Kaffeine - a KDE-specific player, comes with some KDE dependencies. Totem player was able to display the first level of menus just like VLC but clicking any of them was just starting the first entry. (I tested mpv, Gnome MPV, bomi, Gnome MPlayer, Baka Mplayer, KPlayer, KMPlayer, Dragon Player) Many do not see the menus as such but play them as a video stream, and so the menus are not usable. When starting the DVD in this player anyway, it treats menus as video stream.Įven without an 'Open DVD' option I was able to test with other players. Gnome MPlayer also has it, but cannot find the dvd as it looks for it by default in /dev/dvd and it doesn't have a way to change that. SMPlayer has that option, shows the first level of the menus but does nothing then (it seems to see the menus just as a video stream or something). Well, many video players don't even have an 'Open DVD' option. What happens when trying the same DVD with a different player? I cannot seem to find that in VLC neither - clicking the 'DVD Menus' added to the interface, it will just restart from the beginning.

#VLC DVD PLAYERS WINDOWS#

Can other player do as well as this? Or better: I remember that in Windows I used players that at any moment during playback were able to show the first level of the menus by selecting a specific option. once the DVD disk inside the computer drive, VLC can show the menu like so:Īnd each menu entry may lead to other sub-menu entries:.

#VLC DVD PLAYERS MOVIE#

VLC is maybe the best video player out-there and as far as I can tell the best DVD player for Linux, but it may happen that it fails from time to time (I sometimes lose video, audio, or synchronization between those) - so that it may be useful to know if there is a way to have full access to all features of a DVD movie with a different application.Įxample (tested in Manjaro and Mint KDE): I want to be able to just insert a DVD movie and be sure I'll have full access to all its features.

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