Having Major Issues Trying To Play VOB files.

[Polygon]

To start off I'm ripping my DVDs using AnyDVD and DVD Decrypter. I'm ripping them as VOB files with no DVD structuring. All I want is the movie, I don't care about the menus and extras. Now, I'm trying to watch these on my HTPC using Media Browser. So, I have it launch and external program. I've tried four different programs now with no luck.

1. MPC-HC: This was my first choice. It works perfect and the PQ is about as good as I can expect for DVDs. However, certain movies have a strange issue. They hit certain points where there's a hiccup in the video and suddenly the audio is out of sync with the video. These points are always the same and you can skip past them and avoid the problem all together. Or after is occurs you can move to any other point in the movie and the sync will be back to normal. I've been searching Google for over a week now with no answer and I've been changing setting all day and nothings worked so far.

2. Someone suggested VLC: Sadly the video quality wasn't as good but it worked. That is until I tried to launch it from Media Browser. I hear audio, then about three to four seconds later it switches over to VLC but it has no video. So, I try just opening the file from explorer and it works just fine.

3. Well PDVD8 should work: Wrong. I can drag and drop the file into PDVD8 but that's the only way it will play it. Trying it from Media Browser means it opens the program and then it just sits there doing nothing.

4. My last attempt was trying KM Player: The only thing I can say is that it's a worthless pile of crap that doesn't work no matter what you do.

There has to be a better way to do this? Maybe there's something I'm missing? I know that I could just encode them using Handbrake but I'd like to avoid that step at all cost.

[hech54]

VOB2MPEG

[guns1inger]

The VOBs require the IFO files because they contain all the information about what is in the VOBs. The reason none of the players work for you is because you threw away the most important parts.

If you don't want the menus, but you do want everything else (subtitles, multiple audio tracks etc) then you need to repackage the VOBs as MKV files. If you only want the video and an audio track, use VOB2MPG and be happy with a an MPG file.

FWIW, I have no problems playing pretty much anything in The KM Player, but then I also have some idea of what I am doing.

[classfour]

Movie only rip: Dvdfabdecrypter - free. Has movie only mode. You then can play the .ifo file with Media Player Classic to verify integrity (not all rips work as planned) then convert with VOB2MPG.