play-dvd

Opens a DVD with the video player mpv.

So basically all it does is to call:

mpv dvd://0 dvd://1 dvd://2 dvd://3 ...

As you might have experienced, it is challenging to find the title numbers you want to see. Therefore play-dvd was created, which has the following features:

• by default it only enqueues the main title(s).
• it allows to resume playback of each DVD, by managing the watch-later-dir (in ~/.cache/play-dvd/watch_later).
• it waits until a just inserted DVD can be successfully opened.
• when installed, it adds a "DVD Playback" entry to your application launchers.
• the launcher has a second launch mode to play the extras (trailers, featurettes, ...).

These make it arguably more convenient to use than a dedicated DVD player (with its irritating menus, intros, pirating nag screens...).

Tips

You may want to add the following settings to your mpv.conf:

# select the preferred audio languages
alang=de,en

# enable the resume playback feature
save-position-on-quit

Commandline arguments

Usage: play-dvd [-options] [--mpv-arguments]
  -t, --titles     playback titles (default).
  -e, --extras     playback extras.
  -o, --others     playback other tracks.
  -a, --all        playback all tracks.
  -v, --verbose    enable verbose messages.
  -h, --help       print this help.

Building

A C++17 conforming compiler is required. A script for the CMake build system is provided.

Installing dependencies on Debian Linux and derivatives:

sudo apt install build-essential git cmake mpv libdvdread-dev

Checking out the source:

git clone https://github.com/houmain/play-dvd

Building:

cd play-dvd
cmake -B build
cmake --build build

License

play-dvd is released under the GNU GPLv3. It comes with absolutely no warranty. Please see LICENSE for license details.