Vista - Playing backed up DVDs with Media Center

I upgraded to Vista Premium from XP Pro and this is my first experience with
Media Center. I have a number of my DVD movies backed up to my hard drive and
have always played them through Media Player. I can still do that, however, I
would like to be able to play them through Media Center.

Here is my problem. MC has found all of my movies, and shows me them all in
folders in the video library. When I open a folder I see the audio_ts and
video_ts subfolders. When I go into the video_ts folder, however, it tells me
"No videos were found. Either there are no videos or you are viewing an empty
folder."

But I'm not - the files are there. I have used a couple of different
programs to back up my movies, most recently DVD Shrink.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

Try the following registry tweak:

Registry key -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Settings\DvdSettings
Registry value - ShowGallery
Registry value data type - REG_SZ
Registry value data - Gallery = enable My DVDs; Play = do not enable My DVDs

Good luck

"s6xbucks" <s6xbucks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:263BCE23-4193-46F0-819B-B93BDD852F89@microsoft.com...
>I upgraded to Vista Premium from XP Pro and this is my first experience
>with
> Media Center. I have a number of my DVD movies backed up to my hard drive
> and
> have always played them through Media Player. I can still do that,
> however, I
> would like to be able to play them through Media Center.
>
> Here is my problem. MC has found all of my movies, and shows me them all
> in
> folders in the video library. When I open a folder I see the audio_ts and
> video_ts subfolders. When I go into the video_ts folder, however, it tells
> me
> "No videos were found. Either there are no videos or you are viewing an
> empty
> folder."
>
> But I'm not - the files are there. I have used a couple of different
> programs to back up my movies, most recently DVD Shrink.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks

Stuart, this is also happening to my backed up DVD's. Looking at your fix, I
read it as

set the value of 'ShowGallery' to 'Gallery', rather than 'Play'.

If I have read this right, I have tried this fix and I now get the picture
but it still doesn't play, I just get the video and audio ts folders? Do you
have any other suggestions? I appreciate your help

Thanks Simon

"Stuart" wrote:

> Try the following registry tweak:
>
> Registry key -
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
> Center\Settings\DvdSettings
> Registry value - ShowGallery
> Registry value data type - REG_SZ
> Registry value data - Gallery = enable My DVDs; Play = do not enable My DVDs
>
> Good luck
>
> "s6xbucks" <s6xbucks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:263BCE23-4193-46F0-819B-B93BDD852F89@microsoft.com...
> >I upgraded to Vista Premium from XP Pro and this is my first experience
> >with
> > Media Center. I have a number of my DVD movies backed up to my hard drive
> > and
> > have always played them through Media Player. I can still do that,
> > however, I
> > would like to be able to play them through Media Center.
> >
> > Here is my problem. MC has found all of my movies, and shows me them all
> > in
> > folders in the video library. When I open a folder I see the audio_ts and
> > video_ts subfolders. When I go into the video_ts folder, however, it tells
> > me
> > "No videos were found. Either there are no videos or you are viewing an
> > empty
> > folder."
> >
> > But I'm not - the files are there. I have used a couple of different
> > programs to back up my movies, most recently DVD Shrink.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
>

After making the registry change you should be able to access and play your
DVDs through
the DVD Library menu which will have appeared on the TV+Movies nav strip.

You do not play them through the Pictures+Video menus.
Indeed it is useful to keep all your DVD rips under one parent folder such
as DVDs
and set it as a hidden folder, then it will not appear as a bunch of folders
under Videos
but can still be accessed through the DVD Library tile.




"Simon" <Simon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsD248A04-CDF8-4F3B-927B-9931DDE3521F@microsoft.com...
> Stuart, this is also happening to my backed up DVD's. Looking at your
> fix, I
> read it as
>
> set the value of 'ShowGallery' to 'Gallery', rather than 'Play'.
>
> If I have read this right, I have tried this fix and I now get the picture
> but it still doesn't play, I just get the video and audio ts folders? Do
> you
> have any other suggestions? I appreciate your help
>
> Thanks Simon
>
> "Stuart" wrote:
>
>> Try the following registry tweak:
>>
>> Registry key -
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
>> Center\Settings\DvdSettings
>> Registry value - ShowGallery
>> Registry value data type - REG_SZ
>> Registry value data - Gallery = enable My DVDs; Play = do not enable My
>> DVDs
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> "s6xbucks" <s6xbucks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:263BCE23-4193-46F0-819B-B93BDD852F89@microsoft.com...
>> >I upgraded to Vista Premium from XP Pro and this is my first experience
>> >with
>> > Media Center. I have a number of my DVD movies backed up to my hard
>> > drive
>> > and
>> > have always played them through Media Player. I can still do that,
>> > however, I
>> > would like to be able to play them through Media Center.
>> >
>> > Here is my problem. MC has found all of my movies, and shows me them
>> > all
>> > in
>> > folders in the video library. When I open a folder I see the audio_ts
>> > and
>> > video_ts subfolders. When I go into the video_ts folder, however, it
>> > tells
>> > me
>> > "No videos were found. Either there are no videos or you are viewing an
>> > empty
>> > folder."
>> >
>> > But I'm not - the files are there. I have used a couple of different
>> > programs to back up my movies, most recently DVD Shrink.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>