MVP and Video TS Files

[Rebecca_HV]

We use GBPVR EXCLUSIVLY via MVP playback.

I would like to take my home videos (which I have chapter indexed and burned to DVD (as well as placed them as video TS files on the home theater playback system)) and play them back (from the hard drive DVD TS files) on one of the three MVPs in the house. Is this possible? The ability to select by chapter is important because playing or fast-forwarding through two hours of home video just to get to the one scene you want to show GrandMom can be boring!

I realize that GBPVR is mostly about timeshifting, but it is such a central part of ours (and others?!) viewing experience that I would love to see the same convience applied to family video playback (WITHOUT having to find the camera, find the correct tape, hook up all the cables...... you get the picture!).

What a FANTASTIC piece of code! Thanks to Sub and everyone who helps to make these complex concepts easy for us noobs!

[sub]

Sorry, but I think you're going to out of luck with this one. To playback via the MVP, and have the ability to easily jump to other parts of the video, you really need to have MPEG2 video files.

There is no native support for DVD VOB files on the MVP. The XDVD plugin might be able to help, but I've never tried it myself so I dont know.

[Rebecca_HV]

Seems ashame; perhaps the folks at Hauppauge will see the value of a family having the option of watching home movies (now that SO many companies have Video Editing and DVD authoring software) of their kids growing up instead of whatever ABC or NBC has to show!

Thank you for such a quick response! Where do you find the time!??

[pBS]

try the MVPMC dongle, it allows you to run gbpvr, or switch to a 'native' MVP player that can browse shares and play .vob's directly, including ac3 audio!
i used it about a year ago and it worked great even then, now it's a bit more stable and able...

basically it is an alternate os that can load gbpvr's dongle,or act as a stand alone os....just requires reboot of mvp to load new dongle,[just put it in your gbpvr\dongle dir and select]

[sub]

More info about trying the MVPMC dongle can be found here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=24372

[Rebecca_HV]

Thank you all VERY much! I'll give it a try and let you know if anything interesting happens!