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Old 08-09-2007   #3 (permalink)
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Re: media player will not play vob file

I have Vista Home Premium.

"Adam Albright" wrote:

> 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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