[mythtv-users] Playing back IFO/VOB files from server.

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Jul 7 18:11:56 UTC 2006


On 07/07/2006 01:56 PM, Craig Lovold wrote:
> Dos anyone know of a way to play back a VOB file and have the player use 
> the IFO file with it?
>   

Yeah.  It's called DVD playback.  ;)

> I have lots of movies on my server with all the menu crud ripped out and 
> just VOB file(s) with corresponding IFO file for each movie.
>
> I have tried Xine and MPlayer, but each one just wants to play the VOB 
> file like a stand-alone mpeg file.  None of the honor the jump points or 
> continuations in the IFO file.
>
> I used to have a Roku HD1000 on my network and I just pointed it to the 
> folder withe th VOB/IFO files and it played them, no problem.  I am 
> hoping that something like this exists for MythTV (or Linux in general).
>
> I don't want to have to put in each VOB file as a 'file to play next' as 
> that is very cumbersome to manage, won't let you skip backwards over 
> file breaks, and has a nasty pause/flash while Xine/MPlayer restarts 
> with the next VOB file.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to trick Xine/MPlayer into thinking that 
> the folder is a dvd, so it doens't do the IFO processing.
>
> Am I the only one playing back movies this way?  What's the dealio?

Why not just rip the DVD as an ISO?

Mike


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