How to play a video from a hard drive?
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Hello,
Sorry for this question which must have been the subject of many threads but I can't find it in my research.
I have recordings of TV films on DVD that I would like to transfer to my external hard drive and be able to play them.
The problem is that the transfer creates as many video-ts and audio-ts folders as there are films.
How can I easily command their playback from a custom file name like is done with .avi format?
I know how to migrate from .vob to .avi but I would like to avoid this tedious conversion and stay in the original format.
Thank you to the specialists who can guide me.
Sorry for this question which must have been the subject of many threads but I can't find it in my research.
I have recordings of TV films on DVD that I would like to transfer to my external hard drive and be able to play them.
The problem is that the transfer creates as many video-ts and audio-ts folders as there are films.
How can I easily command their playback from a custom file name like is done with .avi format?
I know how to migrate from .vob to .avi but I would like to avoid this tedious conversion and stay in the original format.
Thank you to the specialists who can guide me.
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Hello institute
I don't know how multimedia hard drives work, if the playback of video files is controlled by a remote, but I suppose it is.
First, is it a multimedia hard drive or a regular one? Does it support MPEG 2, the DVD-Video format, if it is a multimedia HDD?
Then see if you can read the VOB files, those related to the movie (taken all together) with the VLC player.
I think you can also play your entire DVD by using the IFO file with the Media Player Classic or maybe another one. It works on my computer.
Best regards
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I don't know how multimedia hard drives work, if the playback of video files is controlled by a remote, but I suppose it is.
First, is it a multimedia hard drive or a regular one? Does it support MPEG 2, the DVD-Video format, if it is a multimedia HDD?
Then see if you can read the VOB files, those related to the movie (taken all together) with the VLC player.
I think you can also play your entire DVD by using the IFO file with the Media Player Classic or maybe another one. It works on my computer.
Best regards
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~ Little fish will grow up ~
Check the box if the problem is solved if that's the case.
Maybe if you change the opening properties of your file, Properties --> Open with, you'll get what you want.
For me, I click on the IFO file, and my DVD video launches automatically with MPC. For VOB files, they open automatically with VLC. I rarely use WMP.
Bye for now
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For me, I click on the IFO file, and my DVD video launches automatically with MPC. For VOB files, they open automatically with VLC. I rarely use WMP.
Bye for now
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Check the box if the problem is solved.
Okay, I know how to do that, but I'm stuck with a generic name "VIDEO_TS" that I can't change to personalize it (otherwise it doesn't work).
So each time I have to wander into each folder to activate the IFO file of the movie I want to watch.
Not very functional.
There must be a solution somewhere.
I'll see if I can achieve the result by creating an ISO file with the name of the movie.
Follow-up:
I just tried it, it works
You need to convert the DVD to .iso format and assign the WMP program to .iso file types.
WMP plays them directly without having to go through the intermediate step of loading the virtual disk with Daemon or Isobuster.
So each time I have to wander into each folder to activate the IFO file of the movie I want to watch.
Not very functional.
There must be a solution somewhere.
I'll see if I can achieve the result by creating an ISO file with the name of the movie.
Follow-up:
I just tried it, it works
You need to convert the DVD to .iso format and assign the WMP program to .iso file types.
WMP plays them directly without having to go through the intermediate step of loading the virtual disk with Daemon or Isobuster.
The solution is probably to create an ISO Image of the DVD-Video, which you can play with VLC or MPC or another player (hard drive partition in NTFS if the file is larger than 4 GB).
This way, you end up with a huge single file that might work like an AVI file.
I haven't tried to modify the auto-start of such files. If you want to give it a try, I'll let you experiment.
But the thing is, the players in question don't have a library like WMP does. So you have to search your hard drive for the corresponding files. To mitigate this, you group your ISO Images of your DVD-Videos in a folder or on a disk/partition.
See you later
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~ Little fish will grow big ~
Check the box if the problem is solved if that's the case.
This way, you end up with a huge single file that might work like an AVI file.
I haven't tried to modify the auto-start of such files. If you want to give it a try, I'll let you experiment.
But the thing is, the players in question don't have a library like WMP does. So you have to search your hard drive for the corresponding files. To mitigate this, you group your ISO Images of your DVD-Videos in a folder or on a disk/partition.
See you later
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~ Little fish will grow big ~
Check the box if the problem is solved if that's the case.
Let's reason as if I wanted to do this operation on my internal disk.
Is there a simple way to read a VOB movie transferred to the hard drive?
I know that you can read it by opening the IFO file in WMP, but it's a cumbersome process (you have to go into the video folder, then locate the IFO file in a list, and then request its opening with the WMP program).
I would like to recreate the execution conditions of an .avi file.
You click on a name, the file is automatically recognized as a multimedia object, and the movie opens with the default player.