I ripped one of my DVDs that had a menu at the beginning of the main movie in the VTS_01_0.VOB file. Since there is no way to select from the menu in Media Center, I encoded the movie to XVID using all the VOBs except the VTS_01_0.VOB. (I also removed the menu using DVDShrink.)

The encoded movie plays in Divx Player and various applications like Avidemux but will not play in Vista Media Center or Windows Media Player. When attempting to play the movie in Media Center or Media Player, all I get is a black screen. In Media Player, the button on the slider bar is not shown and the Pause button is shown. It appears the movie is looping on a black frame and cannot get past it.

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do to get the movie to play in Media Center?

Thanks,
Tom