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Old 08-09-2007   #2 (permalink)
Adam Albright


 
 

Re: media player will not play vob file

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:48:01 -0700, Burner
<Burner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have family movies saved as vob files on my hard drive. I previously used
>media player on an xp computer and they played fine. I recently bought a new
>vista computer and copied the vob files to my hard drive. When I try to play
>them with Media Player 11, it just shows blank - nothing happens. I tried
>adding new codecs but still nothing. If I put a home movie that is on dvd in
>the optical drive (contains the same vob file), it will play. How do I get
>Media Player to play vob files from my hard drive?


Only the Home Premium and Ultimate versions of Vista come with an
included MPEG-2 encoder/decoder. What version do you have?

If neither of those then you need a third party DVD player.

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