Can't play DVD off of hard drive

[oLLie]

Hi AT Software forum!

I'm having trouble playing a DVD off the hard drive, I have the .IFO and the .VOB's but it won't play in WinDVD,
I tried making the source a file, and tried 'dvd from folder' but it says "No valid Drive/Disc Found!" (This is WinDVD platinum).

I've also tried PowerDVD XP, and Zoomplayer Pro and neither of those worked either.

Anyone know how it's done? Perhaps something is wrong with my filter setup? But then how would I correct that? Thanks gang!

Ollie

 

[oLLie]

I can open the .vob's individually and play them, but there's no way to enable the subtitles. Too bad I'm not running linux... I heard the open source "xine" dvd-player can force subtitles on by command line.

Any ideas?

 

[Wolfsraider]

i use power dvd

control+o to select media

or use the button here

or you can right click "open with" choose power dvd and it will automaticly play
make sure you select all files when doing this,as it allows subtitles
i have divx movies that i use the nimo codec and play them in power dvd as well as dvd's ripped to the hdd.

does this help?


mike

 

[oLLie]

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
i use power dvd

control+o to select media

or use the button here

or you can right click "open with" choose power dvd and it will automaticly play
make sure you select all files when doing this,as it allows subtitles
i have divx movies that i use the nimo codec and play them in power dvd as well as dvd's ripped to the hdd.

does this help?


mike

I've tried using that button, it says No valid Drive/Disc found. I'm not sure if selecting all the .vob's will make a difference... I can open an individual .vob if I tell it to the source is a file, but then there are no subtitles and no way to turn them on either. I'll try selecting them all and see if there's a difference. Thanks for the idea,

Ollie

 

[onza]

if i'm not mistaken, when you just rip a dvd onto a hdd, the files are encrypted, so you have to use a program like dvd decrypter to decrpyt the files.

then you can watch the dvd off your hdd

thats what i think and recall.

 

[oLLie]

Originally posted by: onza
if i'm not mistaken, when you just rip a dvd onto a hdd, the files are encrypted, so you have to use a program like dvd decrypter to decrpyt the files.

then you can watch the dvd off your hdd

thats what i think and recall.

I think you're sort of right. The video is encrypted on the DVD, and DVDDecrypter does decrypt the information, but it does so while ripping it. That is, I actually used DVDDecrypter to rip the .IFO and .VOB's to my HD.

 

[oLLie]

Selecting multiple .VOB's and doing an Open With still didn't let me turn the subtitles on. Any other ideas? Thanks.

Ollie

 

[oLLie]

Can everyone but me successfully play them off the hard drive, or is there just no one around who's tried?

 

[Auric]

It's just you. I have had a problem where Macrovision was not stripped out as it was supposed to be though and so to output directly to a VCR I had to use VideoLAN as the player to bypass it.

 

[oLLie]

bump. It must be me like you said, but I wonder why! WHY?!