can it be done? (VOB playing) (1 Viewer)

[Karmal]

As of right now, I've been doing the typical mpg/avi/divx method of watching my movies. I've been using CloneDVD and VideoReDo to extract the movie itself and convert to mpg. But I'm noticing I'm not *really* pleased with the quality of the mpgs. So I was curious if there is a way to create a folder, toss a movie into it, and create a queue file of some type (playlist?) that would visible in the My Videos section. I'm guessing for the queue file bit it would require setting in config to pick up whatever queue file type it will allow (that is if it is doable)? Any help in this would be great.

Oh, and just a different question. I have a .mpeg file of a silent film that if I watch in WMP it plays audio/video no problem, but for some reason in MP it only plays video. Every other video type seems to play both within MP.

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

DVDs that are ripped as VOB files can be directly played. You only have to make sure you have the correct folder structure. Eg. create a folder named DVDs and add this to your video shares.

\DVDs\Spiderman\VIDEO_TS\
\DVDs\Spiderman\AUDIO_TS\
\DVDs\Terminator\VIDEO_TS\
\DVDs\Terminator\AUDIO_TS\
....

MP will play the DVD if you press Enter/OK on the Movie folder (eg. Spiderman). You even can add the movies to the database by pressing Info/F3 on the Movie folder.

What codecs did you choose for video playback?

HTH,
Flip.

 

[Karmal]

thanks for the response, I'll play around with using VOBs instead of ripping to a lossy video type.

as far as the audio codecs, tried using: ffdshow, ac3filter, MPA decoder, Nero Audio Decoder2, and Nero Mpeg Decoder. It's strange as this video plays the audio part fine w/ windows media player but for some reason it will only give me video in MP (everything else works fine, but this is the only .mpeg file I have).

thanks again for the help

 

[ckcomm]

If your goal is just to improve video quality of the main movie - rather than to preserve your whole DVD's menu structure, chapter points, bonus material etc. - then there's probably a simpler solution for you.

After you rip the main movie to a .vob file, simply change the extension from .vob to .mpg (this works because the video-content portion of a VOB file is encoded as an MPEG).

Then MediaPortal can play the .mpg file just fine, and there's no re-encoding, so no loss of quality. And it's simpler than the machinations you have to go through to get MP to play VOBs.

Just a thought.

 

[felo]

After you rip the main movie to a .vob file, simply change the extension from .vob to .mpg (this works because the video-content portion of a VOB file is encoded as an MPEG).

Then MediaPortal can play the .mpg file just fine, and there's no re-encoding, so no loss of quality. And it's simpler than the machinations you have to go through to get MP to play VOBs.

Just a thought.

I rip a few videos from my DVDs and did that, but then no audio from the file.
It may need a post processing decoder but im too lazy to try.

 

[makryger]

Perhaps someone can help me out. I have a harddrive full of ripped movies. They are all the vob, ifo, bup etc. type files. I would like to launch the dvd, (ie the dvd menu, just as if I put the dvd into the drive).

I did an automatic scan of my dvds using IMDB database. It found the movies correctly, but when I try to play them within MediaPortal, I just get a blank screen. In MP configuration, the movie database only shows one file being accessed for any one dvd: VIDEO_TS.IFO.

Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

On a side note, its not playing dvr-ms files either. Should it be able to do that?