virtual cd/dvd drive/xine dvd rip playback

[Brian West]

On 11/18/2012 11:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/19/2012 12:04 PM, Brian West wrote:
>> Hello everyone I have been using fedora since 2003 so i'm not totally new at linux.  How can i create a virtual cd/dvd drive to use for watching dvds and installing software etc?  also is there a way to play a ripped dvd that's on my hard-drive using xine. by ripped i'm refering to the video_ts directory?  I'm able to use vlc but not xine.  Thanks in advance for your time
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> I usually find it sufficient to mount the ISO file as a loopback device.
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> mount whatever.iso -w -t iso9660 -o loop  /mnt
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Thanks ed do you have any thoughts as to how i can resolve my xine issue?