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[NickM]

I have ripped a complete DVD and can play it from a local drive.  If I move all the DVD files to a network drive and import the same files into MC, the DVD will not play.  Playback skips to the next file with no error.  MC will sucessfully playback a DIVX encoded AVI or MPG file from the same network drive, using the same UNC naming convention.

What am I missing?

nick

MC11.0.316

[Alex B]

Actually, how does MC support DVDs on a local HD? AFAIK there is no standard for that.

I have copied and compressed some DVD videos to AVI video files and naturally they can be played like any other video files.

[NickM]

I just took all the files from the DVD, copied them to a single folder and imported the first file called VIDEO_TS.vob.  Once this file is played within MC, the rest of the DVD menu, subsequent files and other DVD features seem to work.

nick

[Alex B]

Could it be that the installed decoder is responsible of the file access. Can you play the same files with e.g. WinDVD or PowerDVD?

Have you tried mapping a drive letter to the UNC path?

[zxsix]

I just took all the files from the DVD, copied them to a single folder and imported the first file called VIDEO_TS.vob.  Once this file is played within MC, the rest of the DVD menu, subsequent files and other DVD features seem to work.

nick

That's the wrong file.  The one that needs to be imported into MC is vts_01_1.vob

[NickM]

Alex, thanks for the for methodical approach...

WinDVD plays from UNC and from drive mapped path.
MC does not play from UNC but DOES play from drive mapped path ( so at least there's a work around ).

Is this a problem with MC or the decoder?  How do I tell which decoder MC is using? And is it possible to make MC use an alternative decoder??

ZXSix, I believe that you are incorrect... I understand that for the complete DVD including the menu, if the file exists, one should use VIDEO_TS.vob, otherwise the first file in the series which may well be VTS_01_0.vob but may alternatively be VTS_02_1.vob or VTS_0x later in the sequence.

nick

[zxsix]

Alex, thanks for the for methodical approach...

WinDVD plays from UNC and from drive mapped path.
MC does not play from UNC but DOES play from drive mapped path ( so at least there's a work around ).

Is this a problem with MC or the decoder?  How do I tell which decoder MC is using? And is it possible to make MC use an alternative decoder??

ZXSix, I believe that you are incorrect... I understand that for the complete DVD including the menu, if the file exists, one should use VIDEO_TS.vob, otherwise the first file in the series which may well be VTS_01_0.vob but may alternatively be VTS_02_1.vob or VTS_0x later in the sequence.

nick

Nope.  In MC, it's the vts_01_1.vob that must be imported to initiate the movie.
Try it for yourself if you must.  Import video.ts and vts_01_1.vob.  Try to play each and see what happens.
For reference, here's the files present for one of my movies:
video_ts.ifo, vts_01_0.ifo
vts_01_1.vob, vts_01_2.vob, vts_01_3.vob, vts_01_4.vob

[NickM]

Zxsix, if you re-ready my post, you will see, I was suggesting
"if the file exists, one should use VIDEO_TS.vob".  I was not suggesting you try to import video.ts or video_ts.ifo

On the particular DVD that you are looking at, as this file does not exist, I was suggesting "otherwise the first file in the series which may well be VTS_01_0.vob ".  In this case, yes the file would be VTS_01_1.vob

nick

[zxsix]

oh sorry, somehow I read video_ts.vob and heard video_ts.ifo, since that's what I'm used to seeing.  No worries.

[NickM]

That's OK Zxsix.  I too am dislexic most of the time...

I am still stuck with why MC won't play via UNC but will play by mapped drive.  Guess that should be marked as a bug then?

n

[zxsix]

I'd go ahead and post as a bug and see what they say.
All my vob files are in a hard drive array on my server so I don't have any network mounts.

I can't see any reason for it not to read a UNC path.

[StarBand Guy]

Anybody ever figure out how to get cover art to work with these files?  If I paste a picture from the clipboard ALL the .vob files end up with the same art.

Grrr....

[zxsix]

Only import vts_01_1.vob.   Don't import any of the other files from the dvd folder, just the first one.

[StarBand Guy]

No, I wasn't clear.  If I paste cover art for say, "Starband's Guys' Family DVD onto the .vob file, every other DVD's imported .vob file gets the same artwork. I'm only importing the one vts_01_1.vob file per DVD.

[zxsix]

That's not happening here.  These vobs are in separate folders right?
Any chance you have more than one file highlighted when you do the paste?

I have my options set to use folder.jpg and when the vob file is on the harddrive, I can paste cover art onto the movie in the MC database and the folder.jpg is added into that folder where the vob and ifo files are.

If it's a DVD that I didn't rip to harddrive, then I can't use the paste method due to it being read only media.  In that case, I save the coverart to a common folder and then use the "add image from file" option.

[StarBand Guy]

Yeah, they're in seperate folders.  Let me investigate the option you mention, if I can find it.  I would Soo love to get that working right.
Thanks.

[StarBand Guy]

Whoo Hooo!  That did the trick!  I'm a much happier camper

[zxsix]

Glad that helped.