Playing a DVD Vob file on TV

[Rek]

I rip a dvd but do not want to encode it. My Samssung tv will play vob files off usb hardrive. The picture when playing on tv is in wide screen but is small picture with black all around it. Do i need to encode it to have a picture just like i was playing the actual DVD?
I just wanted to copy some of my dvds to usb drive without encoding to something else

[Baldrick]

You can try "remux" it to mpg with vob2mpg or to an mkv with mkvtoolnix. It might work better than the vob container. No reconversion.

[Rek]

You can try "remux" it to mpg with vob2mpg or to an mkv with mkvtoolnix. It might work better than the vob container. No reconversion.

Well vob2mpg and mkvtoolnix worked but not what i was looking for. It did'nt stretch the picture out to fill the tv screen. What i'm looking for is to copy DVD movies to usb drive without taking the time to reencode and have just the movie play back on tv just like watching it from DVD player. I'm assuming that the ifo file on dvd tells the dvd player what the output would be- like 16.9 or full screen. I guess i will probally have to reencode and loose a little quality

[tinker]

If your TV has a ZOOM button ( may be other name) on your remount, just use that to stretch the picture. Look in your TV manual. My TV works like that.

[jman98]

Congratulations. I know you don't want to hear this but you just learned a hard lesson that TVs are not "plays everything perfectly" playback devices and they all have limitations, which you have hit.

Please explain better on what your intentions are. You talk about a "USB drive". Are you trying to rip a bunch of DVDs to a large external hard drive so you can play them back from that? If so you'd be better served to just buy a Western Digital or similar streaming media player and give up on the idea of using the TV to play files. If I could bitch slap the entire TV industry for even allowing direct file playback I would do it because all it did was create the false impression that TVs are "plays everything" devices now.

[Rek]

Congratulations. I know you don't want to hear this but you just learned a hard lesson that TVs are not "plays everything perfectly" playback devices and they all have limitations, which you have hit.

Please explain better on what your intentions are. You talk about a "USB drive". Are you trying to rip a bunch of DVDs to a large external hard drive so you can play them back from that? If so you'd be better served to just buy a Western Digital or similar streaming media player and give up on the idea of using the TV to play files. If I could bitch slap the entire TV industry for even allowing direct file playback I would do it because all it did was create the false impression that TVs are "plays everything" devices now.

Yes that is what i was wanting to do rip a bunch of dvds to a external usb hard drive instead of fumbling threw all the dvds i have. I think i'm just about to give up on this idea. I probably be better off just hooking a pc to the tv and go from there.