On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:17:27 -0700, bruce wrote: > hi.. > > is it possible to use mplayer/xine to play a dvd video/file from the > harddrive? is it possible to then burn this same file to the dvd disk and > play it from a hardware DVD player? > > thanks > > bruce > bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Of course. If it's a vob, just mplayer file.vob If it's a dvd, say in a directory called MyMovie (containing AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS) then the trick is to specify the dvd device: mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path/to/MyMovie