movie problems

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:17 pm

I've got most of my movie collection on HDD. I can't veiw them with the ATI file player or windows media player. They play fine with powerdvd though.
I've tried to change the file extentions but that hasn't worked. Any ideas?

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:51 pm

What type of file? What compression is used?

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:08 pm

I've tried to use vob,mpg, mpeg, and wmv extensions. I used smart ripper to rip them to the HDD. There was no compression.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:26 pm

Ahhhhh SmartRipper rips directly to VOB files. I think if you correctly setup WMP it could possibly play but probably not. The reason PowerDVD only plays it is that you are dealing with MPEG2 "uncompressed" (I know it's not truly uncompressed) data streams and also probably digital audio. It's the DVD from the disc on your HD basically. To get to an AVI or whatnot you have to use a conversion program. FlaskMPEG or the Gordian Knot suite of programs.

One trick to fool a player may be to tell it to load a DVD Video from your HD and point it to the folder, given you ripped using IFO mode in SmartRipper.

Oh and I might suggest using DVD Decrypter instead, much better program IMO.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:18 pm

I agree, your trying to play a DVD with a program not meant for DVDs. ATI File player does not play DVDs, it plays other files though. ATI media center has, or had a DVD player in it. It was in the package with my 7500 AIW card, but then I had to delete it when I upgrade to a newer ATI media center and it was not included in that download. Never tried installing the one I had again since I preffered power DVD anyway.

For riping my program of choice is DVDshrink. I still use beta 3 version, never had problems so I never upgraded it to the newer version. Free program and works great for ripping, and if your buring the disk it's good for fitting DVD movies over 5 gigs onto the 4.7gig disks. I use it ALOT for just ripping and also shrinking. Heck I even use it to shrink original DVDs I make. Sometime I either capture a little to much to fit the disk or I might want to take 2 projects and make 1 dvd.

I never go from DVD to other formats like avi though.