Resolved [Playing DVD from hard drive]

I have Windows XP. My slide show program, Memories on TV, makes a DVD which starts and plays automatically on the computer or a TV. I would like to create a file which could be played on the computer without the DVD. I suppose this is possible because the DVD is "bootableâ€? Maybe not, I don’t know.

At any rate, simply copying the files from the DVD to a folder in the computer provides no way to start the program. All the individual albums are selectable and playable, but what I want to do is to open it to the menu from which any of the albums can be selected as with the DVD.

Can this be done?

 

Thanks for the response. I have both VLC and WinDVD as you suggested, however I think the problem is more complex than that. I don't know the details--that's what I'm trying to learn, here--but it is something like this: When you insert a DVD to play, it's as though the DVD has been made "bootable ". If you look at the contents of the DVD in Explorer, the videos and audios are available in the folders and can be played by VLC and WinDVD, however the overall "show" is not available to click on and play as though it was the actual DVD being inserted. The only way you can play the actual DVD is to give a "play" command.

I have seen similar things like this, where you download a file but it must be put on an ISO formatted disk to play.

Hmmm. I hope this doesn't sound too confusing.

 

I think I've just discovered the answer to my own question. In the video_ts folder on the dvd, one of the many video files is called video_ts.ifo. This is apparently the "root" file for the entire dvd show. When it is played, the menu structure comes up and the show can be played as if it were the actual dvd.

Thanks again for the suggestion.