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. I find this tool very handy for extracting the files correctly from the physical DVD: Package: dvdbackup Source: dvdbackup (0.4.2-4) Version: 0.4.2-4+b1 Installed-Size: 234 Maintainer: Stephen Gran <sg...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdvdread4 (>= 4.1.3-4~) Suggests: libdvdcss2 Description-en: tool to rip DVD's from the command line dvdbackup will extract all (or optionally only selected) titles as found on the dvd. It will structure the extracted files in a format suitable for burning at a later time with genisoimage and dvdrecord. Has the advantage of being very easy to use, small, and fast. Description-md5: b4879cb8d0f49e81b7b69c9613032cb1 Homepage: http://dvdbackup.sourceforge.net Tag: hardware::storage, hardware::storage:dvd, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::converting, use::storing, works-with-format::iso9660, works-with::archive, works-with::video Now if your DVD is not a movie DVD, but just data files on a DVD, well then I don't see a problem with a USB key instead. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk