.vob files

[Ne007]

What is the best software for viewing .vob files? Or how do I view a .vob file?

[Rickio]

I believe vob is the extension used for DVD format.

Get a player like ZoomPlayer or one that says it plays DVD's

peace

[Digital Bliss]

Damned vob files i op in dc and thats all they think thats somthing someone would want to dl. You would have no idea how many people i kick for sharing vob files.

[Sockfulloflove]

mount it as an image with daemon tools or alcohol 120%, then i you can play it with WinDVD. i've tried it, and it works.

[Ne007]

Thanks....

I hope PowerDVD will work.

[Ne007]

Well darnit! Can I view a .vob file WITHOUT burning a disc?

The file is too big 1,000 mb to burn as an image.

Darn this .vob file. It's a good flick though....so I'll give it a try.

[mojo-ris-in]

Originally posted by Ne007
Well darnit! Can I view a .vob file WITHOUT burning a disc?

The file is too big 1,000 mb to burn as an image.

Darn this .vob file. It's a good flick though....so I'll give it a try.

Like sock said use Alcohol 120% mount the file then you can watch it

[Ne007]

With PowerDVD I figure out how to open a .vob file, but these are the messages I got.

"The hardware-accelerated decoding function provided by your display card is not available."

and

Because you switch to an unsupported display mode, the hardware-accelerated decoding function provided by your display card is not available.

"Please close PowerDVD and execute it again. If this message appears consistently, please verify whether your display card is installed properly."

I have a G-Force 4 graphics card, P4 2.2Ghz CPU.

[Ne007]

Originally posted by mojo-ris-in
Like sock said use Alcohol 120% mount the file then you can watch it


The image is too big to mount on to a 700 mb disc....I tried to with alcohol 120%.

The file is 1023 mb.....anyway of splitting a .vob file?

[FreakinWeasel]

Like has been observed here quite a bit recently goto
http://www.dvdrhelp.com

all the info you need and then some.

[Sockfulloflove]

mounting does not mean burning, i think you misunderstand. this file you're talking about is the exact when i used and have.
;-) (i know what it is)

mounting is pretending like you have the cd in a dvd drive or whatever. you can still mount files over 1 gig, i've done it.

ok open up alcohol 120% and at the bottom you should see "device" thing showing your computer, virtual cd/dvd rom, and physical cd/dvd rom. on the virtual cd/dvd rom (first make sure, everything is spread out, meaning click on the little "+" sign so it spreads out and that you see everything), then right click, and do "mount image." then select and find the .vob file. it should be mounted. now go and find that file you originally have (that .vob again, not the mounted image), and open it with PowerDVD. if that doesn't work, get a trial version of WinDVD (i know it works for sure with WinDVD) and try the same thing with that instead of PowerDVD.

[FreakinWeasel]

I found this how to that also explains how to split stuff but it spilts it AFTER you reencode it to an avi or vcd whatever.

http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/dvd2vcd_with_smart_dvd2avi_tmpgenc.cfm

I should have mentioned this place the first time.

[CCSDUDE]

Damn you people...so fucking complex and so friggin' off....

Open PowerDVD....go to the 'file source' menu (ctrl+O)...select "Open DVD File on Hard Disc Drive" and add all the vob files to the playlist by selecting the first then holding shift and selecting the last then hitting 'add'.

And to the dude bitching about people sharing vobs on DC....if you want an exact copy even if you can't burn it without a DVDRW drive and two 4.7gb discs....then you'll take the time to download the big ass vob files. If not they should be sharing ripped and vob format files....give people a choice.

[Ne007]

Thanks Sockfulloflove - that was the ONLY way I was able to open this file. PowerDVD kept giving me the error messages I listed above. WinDVD played the file after mounting it with Alcohol 120%.

The quality of the file is definately NOT DVD material.

[Sockfulloflove]

Originally posted by Ne007
Thanks Sockfulloflove - that was the ONLY way I was able to open this file. PowerDVD kept giving me the error messages I listed above. WinDVD played the file after mounting it with Alcohol 120%.

The quality of the file is definately NOT DVD material.

no problem, i'm happy you got it working. now go and enjoy your movie. =)

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by Ne007
Thanks Sockfulloflove - that was the ONLY way I was able to open this file. PowerDVD kept giving me the error messages I listed above. WinDVD played the file after mounting it with Alcohol 120%.

The quality of the file is definately NOT DVD material.

Kick whoever you got it from in the nads, cuz PowerDVD has taken all that I've thrown at it. Even some really cheap DVD's I ripped that were made in up state NY....by a group of goomba's who took some crappy 80's camcorder and set it up in a second run house...the DVD layout was all fugged up....wouldn't even play on a normal player....

I guess someone was having to much fun playing with crappy second rate VOB authoring software? LOL

Edit: It wasn't PowerDVD's fault....your hardware decoder wasn't in place...or you don't have one and it didn't install a software decoder...either way the file you got may be of quality. WinDVD's decoder may just suck...