Try downloading VLC for windows at
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ it works on
my wife's Vista Basic machine.
"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:30:06 -0700, Burner
> <Burner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I have Vista Home Premium.
>
> Well I have the business version of Vista. While Windows Media Player
> won't directly play a DVD, it will play VOB files if you open the TS
> folder and click on the individual files.
>
> That you can't suggests something has messed up Media Player. Just
> looking at it wrong will cause it to malfunction.
>>
>>"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.
>>>
>>>
>