Play DVDs on iPad - no jailbreak!

Learn how to play a dvd on you ipad or iphone. Can be easily setup with a local network or over the internet if you have an external ip address. More detailed instructions for changing mime.types and enabling the web server can be found in my DVD over wifi to apple tv video

Here is a link to a text explanation of some of the command line code

Basic instructions: Download and install VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-...

2. Add application/x-mpegURL m3u8 and video/MP2T ts to mime.types for your apache server

3. Enable your server

4. Add a stream folder to the root of your web directory

5. Insert the dvd and run the vlc command line with the title and chapter set to the right ones for the DVD and the output to the stream folder in your web directory

6. Check that there is a prog_index.m3u8 file in your stream folder - might take up to 30 seconds for the dvd to startup and begin encoding

7. type yourserver.ip/pathto/stream/prog_index.m­3u8 into the browser on your ipad

Make sure your web server is running and make sure that the path to your stream folder is correct - it won't work if you are trying to access a prog_index file that doesn't exist

You can mess with the video and audio encoding to try and get the best quality and minimize lag - let me know if you find anything that works really well!

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[Erick van Rijk]

actually what mediastreamsegmenter does is cut the stream in chunks.

if you use a special argument (-d i believe) it will clean up after itself.

Originally I helped erica sadun (author of airflick) figuring this out to work on an appletv.

[Harrison Jackson]

good to know! Thanks for the response. That's really cool that you were able to help Erica; Air Flick is great!

[Harrison Jackson]

if you go to the apple documentation for it online, under the compatibility heading, it seems like you have to use fairly specific encoding for it to work. A lot of the encoding talk goes over my head which is probably why I had trouble getting the video cleaned up. I was just happy to get the sound working after an hour of fiddling haha

[Jean-Bernard Jansen]

Ok, thanks for the explanation. In fact, the hack lies on mediastreamsegmenter. Is mediastreamsegmenter complex ? I mean, does it just split the stream regardless of the encoding used or is it a little more smart ?

[Harrison Jackson]

but in a way it is like watching a partial converted file - since the vlc is reading the dvd and then streaming it - but you could say that about any dvd player that reads a file off the dvd and plays it as it reads

[Harrison Jackson]

No the file does not grow. That file is a sort of video playlist file that just points to small video files. If you look in the folder with it there are 8-10 video files that actually contain the video. These files are added and deleted from the folder as the movie progresses - thus the streaming

[Harrison Jackson]

yes, I have a tutorial for that as well. I'm definitely not the first person to do it, just trying to share the knowledge. How did you get the Apple Tv to play it? I used a program called AirFlick to share the URL for the streaming folder over AirPlay.

[Jean-Bernard Jansen]

Got a question. The DVD is streamed into a *.ts file. But does this file grows up until having the size of the complete movie ? It seems to me that yes. And its more like whatching a partial converted file than a real streaming.

[Erick van Rijk]

I did the same as a proof of concept for AppleTV2 back in December. Check my channel to see how it works. It actually works fine on any ios device since they all are compatible with m3u8 files