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

[Craig Lovold]

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

Because I don't want to rerip and index 400+ movies ;-)