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[chiefengineer]

This is a quirky problem I have had for months:

1) I have terabytes of video on hard disk, each in its own Truecrypt volume. I simply mount the volume I want to see and drag/drop the VIDEO_TS folder into VLC, and it throws this error:

VLC is unable to open the MRL: 'dvd:///mnt/dm-0/VIDEO_TS/'

...and yet it clearly finds it: it starts playing the DVD Folder one VOB at a time skipping everywhere...each VOB plays serially like its own file...as from a list...requiring constantly resetting subtitles, sound, etc., making the experience unusable). I formerly blamed VLC for playing poorly with Truecrypt but that just doesn't make sense the more I test:

2) I thought maybe I needed a swap file (which I am reluctant to employ) or increase my 4GB RAM, but if I simply take the decrypted volume and copy the exact same VIDEO_TS folder to hard disk (no longer involving Truecrpyt) then drag/drop it into VLC, it plays the whole "DVD" as it was meant to: perfectly. Of course, this makes the whole encryption thing nonsensical to begin with.

3) This is true whether I use Truecrypt 7.0a, 7.1, turn off kernel cryptographic services (in which case DM-0 doesn't appear but I drag the folder from /mnt/truecrypt1 with the similar error), or whatever version of VLC I use and whatever advanced menu option I attempt to use to open the folder. It also behaves the same way regardless of the hard disk the Truecrypt volume physically resides on: fixed, removable, etc.

This is the ONE THING I am relegated to using Windows for anymore
(and on the exact same machine, and also with VLC and Truecrypt). I am what you could otherwise describe as super-Fatdog-happy.

I am guessing I am clueless about some missing mapping library that makes a Truecrypt volume behave as if it were an honest-to-God hard drive volume...

Any advice about this would be most enlightening and appreciated.