On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:05 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can VLC play a a movie from a DVD drive > connected by USB 2? Are any specific > settings or permissions required.
There shouldn't be. As long as the DVD can be mounted everything should work fine. There aren't - or at leest shouldn't be any issues in mounting a dvd over a usb interface compared to doing so over an ide or scsi type interface - at least in theory. Not having such a device (usb dvd that is) my only caveat is that you are playing from (comparatively) slower media (dvd) and you are bringing that data through a comparatively slower interface, namely usb2.0. In mplayer, there is a setting for adding a cache amount, which is useful for playing files from slow(er) media. I think there is a similar setting in VLC. You may need to increase that value - 256 or 512 seems to be a safe bet - I use those mostly when playing video over the net (like from a streaming video site). Look for the caching checkbox in (for instance) File; Open dialog box. You can check it and see if adding a value helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
