[MPlayer-users] DVD player under Windows that can play DVDs from HD

[Sascha Sommer]

On Friday 30 July 2004 14:34, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
> On Friday 30 July 2004 14:26, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> > On Friday 30 July 2004 13:20, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Thanx to some wonderful work from members of this list I've now managed
> > > to get several of my DVDs onto my HD. Playing them with xine and
> > > mplayer is not a big deal of course, but my wife and daughter insist on
> > > using Windows '98. Is there a (free preferably) DVD player for that OS
> > > that can play DVDs straight from the HD? I do mean DVDs, including
> > > languages/subtitles, etc., and not just the VOB files (managed that
> > > already with several programs).
> >
> > I don't know how you playback the dvds on linux, but the windows version
> > of MPlayer from the download page should work the same.
>
> Yeah, but where I don't mind using commandline under Linux, I don't think I
> can persuade my family to do the same under Windows. Actually, under Linux
> I've already added an entry in Konqueror to just open a directory with
> mplayer as if that directory contains the DVD. Sure, it won't give me
> menu's, but I can play them quite nicely. :)
>

Somehow I expected that ;)

http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/projects.html
has a few frontends for the windows version.
Otherwise maybe videolan is a better solution but don't ask me if it supports 
playing dvds from hdd.

Sascha