Thanks. I downloaded VLC and it plays the vob file and the mpg file very
well. But, I would still like to play it with Media Player so I can use the
Windows Media Center. Any other ideas?
"John Lee Brown" wrote:
> 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
> news:rcjmb3p7jh7rrn38v6a75ooieqfefp643i@4ax.com...
> > 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
>
>