MkDevDVD is a /dev/dvd manager for Linux systems. While this might not sound all too exciting...

Most multimedia players when told to play DVD movies will attempt to read them from /dev/dvd, and if they cannot, they fail. On most systems /dev/dvd is just a symbolic link to another /dev device on the system such as the CDROM drive. The problem here is if you have a DVD ISO file on your hard drive, you would have to burn it to disc to play it.

However Linux has the ability to mount CD/DVD ISO files directly onto the file system right off your hard drive. To set this up in a way that your multimedia player can use takes a few commands to do. For those of us who have many DVD ISO and DVD discs, it is kind of annoying to switch back and forth between a symlink and a mounted ISO over and over. That is what MkDevDVD is for.

Requirements
      • Linux
      • PHP-GTK 2
      • GKSu (optional, but recommended)

Download MkDevDVD
I suggest you use an official release, however if you wish you may check out the latest code from the SVN server. However, be advised like any code repository, this code is the latest and may or may not be broken.

Source Tarball:
      Latest Release: mkdevdvd-1.0.tar.bz2

SVN Checkout:

Installation
1) Make sure you have PHP (or a symlink to it) in /usr/bin/php.

2) Make sure you have the PHP-GTK PHP.INI (or a symlink to it) in /etc/gtk/php.ini

3) Extract, change directory into the source root, and run `./configure` or `php configure`

4) If there are no errors, run `make install`

5) Run `mkdevdvd`.