[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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