VOB Playback from HDD using External Players

[fujidust]

Hello all! Great program, I must say. I have been testing a bunch of proggies including BTV4.5, GBPVR, Yahoo Go! TV and some other less known ones and this one is by far the most capable & most powerful. I am very impressed.

I am writing today about a problem I am encountring with the playback of DVD files off my hard drive. Used to work fine but, not anymore. What I want to do is export the playback of these files to PowerDVD (5, I think), as it plays through that program without any stuttering AT ALL. However, upon selecting the file, the program will only open PDVD and sit there. Almost as if it is not opening the right file. I can then select the file through PDVD menu and 'kick start' it. But, the goal here is to fully automate this. Should I be trying to use another player? DiVX? VLC?

PS: I have Cyberlink and Nvidia Codecs. Not sure which is better, dunno if it makes a difference here.

The goal here is to click on the title in the My videos menu and have it open the movie in Full Screen. That's it.



MediaPortal Version:
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Windows Version: XP, SP2
CPU Type: P4 Northwood @ 2.0 Ghz
HDD: IBM Deskstar, 40 GB
Memory: 512 MB, RDRAM
Motherboard: Intel Board, I forget which
Motherboard Chipset: i850
Motherboard Bios: sorry, it's been a while.
Video Card: XFX 6600GT
Video Card Driver: Latest, 91.36?
Sound Card: SB LIVE! Value
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1. TV Card: None - yet
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[fujidust]

I figured out that this problem may have already been mentioned here. I upgraded to PDVD7 and the same problem exists except now I get an error message that PDVD is looking for the media on my DVD drive instead of the VOB files on my HDD. I suppose that is why it was sitting there. The error says something like "No disc in Drive <X>.

I don't want PDVD to look for the file in its default drive location, I want it to look for the file that MP asked it to play. However, does MP actually point it to the right place? Sounds like not.

Any suggestions here?

Thank you in advance.

[MrHaugland]

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