I had posted a while back about this, but perhaps I can add a bit more info to see if it helps anyone. CountryBumkin just posted that the VOBs are removing themselves from the library. Is that only when the DVD is ripped from MC? I don't rip DVDs on my HTPC, mainly for two reasons, one of which may not even be a good reason to NOT rip them on the HTPC. My main reason is that the HTPC is in the basement where it's free to be as loud as the loud PSU fan in it wants to be. (Too lazy to fix it, I don't notice it in the basement) All of my external hard drives can lay around and look like hell in the basement too. The second reason is that I haven't figured out if it's possible just to rip the main movie from MC. It might be possible, but again, I haven't looked into it.
Here's how I rip my movies from another PC on the network.
Fire up DVDShrink and re-author the movie so that only the main movie is selected. Rip the movie via \\Server\Movies\Movie_Name\VIDEO_TS
If DVDShrink doesn't work, DVDFab almost certainly will get it ripped, via the same network naming convention.
So this past weekend I picked up a copy of Puss In Boots and lest my kids destroy the physical media, I promptly put the movie into another PC and ripped it to the HTPC (in the basement)
The Auto-Import that I have set up monitors folders and assigns genre tags automatically based on those folder selections, so when I go to Theater View, under Video I have Kid's Movies where anything that resides in the "Kids movies" folder on the HTPC will show up.
The last several months I've noticed almost all (but not 100%, weird) of the movie rips will show up with 4 or 5 covers in Theater View. If I pop out of Theater View and select the VOB files and remove them from the library, everything is dandy.
It's nothing major, just an inconvenience, but if there was a setting or something that I could switch to alleviate it, that would be great.
What CountryBumkin just made me realize is that I'm probably doing things oddly by not ripping movies on the HTPC itself, and secondly, from within MC.