[qbasic_forever]

I've also noticed playback of DVDs is terrible these days too. Long ago I ripped my DVD collection to iso files so I could preserve the full experience of the menus, etc. But almost nothing these days supports DVD iso playback and menus, not even VLC! The only software I can get to work to play them is Kodi. It's wild how much DVD software has disappeared, I don't remember it being this bad 20 years ago.

[mbirth]

Same here. I've once `dd`'d a VideoCD into a `*.iso` file and there's seemingly no app that can read it now. VLC only detects the video stream and plays whatever frames it can decode, but since it's mixed with CD layout and filesystem stuff, it's rather garbled.

I can't mount the file and also can't find any software that can make sense out of the raw CD sectors. Very strange.

[brokenmachine]

VLC does support DVD menus... maybe not from iso, but you can play ripped DVDs with menus from VIDEO_TS folders.

Why you'd want DVD menus in the first place, though...

[nolok]

Mount the ISO as a drive and play it ? It's a double click worth of effort on windows, and probably one mount call away on linux

[qbasic_forever]

I was trying to play it on Android devices and can't mount it unfortunately.

[m-p-3]

What about mpv? I don't have a DVD iso to test at the moment..

[TimeBearingDown]

In my experience mpv and VLC will handle .IFO files in DVD’s VIDEO_TS folder structure just fine.

You could open the .VOB files directly, but that’s more cumbersome.