Is there a way to get Kaffeine to play a DVD ISO image?

I think I'm missing something simply, but I haven't found a way to do it.

I never tried Kaffeine to do that, but why don't you use Xine for that?

IMHO, Xine is the best DVD playback application under Linux, with full support for menues.

To play back a DVD .iso with Xine run the following command line command:

xine dvd:/full/path/to/dvdisoimage.iso

or if the .iso is located in the current directory:

xine dvd:`pwd`/dvdisoimage.iso

Hope that helps.

Is there a way to get Kaffeine to play a DVD ISO image?

I think I'm missing something simply, but I haven't found a way to do it.See:
http://hftom.free.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=290&highlight=iso
Perhaps that is what you are running up against (the old whitespace problem is one of the reasons I got into the habbit of using _underscores_ in filenames, as the problem can still pop up here and there every once and a while)
Which version are you running ? perhaps it is fixed within new builds:
http://kaffeine.kde.org/

^^^ Ahh, that might be it.

Last night it looked like it Kaffeine might have been choking on ISOs created by DVDFab, but would open an ISO created by Brassero. However, they were in different paths, so I need to check on that. I also had some problems with Fileroller opeing those ISOs, I wonder if it has the same issue.

I never tried Kaffeine to do that, but why don't you use Xine for that?

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Actually I use SMPlayer for 99.9% of my DVD viewing.

But there are some rare occasions when I need reliable DVD Navigation and Kaffeine has the least quirky, almost always works right DVD Navigation implementation that I've found [and I think I've tried everything out there including VLC, Xine, Ogle, blah, blah, blah]

Actually I use SMPlayer for 99.9% of my DVD viewing.

But there are some rare occasions when I need reliable DVD Navigation and Kaffeine has the least quirky, almost always works right DVD Navigation implementation that I've found [and I think I've tried everything out there including VLC, Xine, Ogle, blah, blah, blah]

AFAIK Kaffeine uses xine as DVD player backend so the navigation should be identical (also I have never experienced any trouble with DVD Navigation in xine so far).

See:
http://hftom.free.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=290&highlight=iso
Perhaps that is what you are running up against (the old whitespace problem is one of the reasons I got into the habbit of using _underscores_ in filenames, as the problem can still pop up here and there every once and a while)
Which version are you running ? perhaps it is fixed within new builds:
http://kaffeine.kde.org/

Thanks CityK!

That was at least part of my problems. I still have some ISOs that make Kaffeine and/or Fileroller crash, but I think in those cases it's actually due to screwed up mastering of the disc.

In case anyone is curious and in the event it might help someone else, I'm running Jaunty Jackalope so all the versions of apps I'm running are from the Jaunty repository.