dvd playback

[burdiman]

HI, First off I am a new convert to gbpvr and it is awesome. Great job and thanks for taking on this huge task.

Ok, I mapped my backed-up dvd location on my hard drive within the config for gbpvr but am not able to play the dvds on the mvp/television. I can however, play a backed-up dvd when I launch gbpvr on my pc. Strange.

Has anyone had luck with this? On my mvp I do not see the DVD button (but I do on my pc gbpvr) and when I access the video library i see the audio_ts and video_ts directories and not the .dv file (playable) that I see on the pc gbpvr.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[sub]

Sorry, but you cant play DVDs on the MVP.

The DVD would first need to be converted to a normal MPEG2 video file (with MPEG1 Layer 2 stereo audio track).

[colin]

Sub have you heard about ympeg ?

I'm wondering if there is something we could do with this?

Colin.

[ronkmd]

Can someone please point me in the correct direction for info on converting DVD-ripped VOB's to a single MPEG-2 file that the MediaMVP can play? I've looked around http://www.vcdhelp.com and http://www.doom9.org a bit but I think I'm missing something. TIA!

Ron

[sub]

This is from another post. It was originally about the PVR350, but equally applies to the MVP.

Quote[/b] ]Step 1: I rip the DVD's with SmartRipper to my hard drive. I set SmartRipper to rip the movie to one big file.

Step 2: I then import that file into Womble MPEG Video Wizard and select Export. I only change the AC-3 audio to MPEG Layer II and hit Start. Only the audio is re-encoded.

The entire process is very fast and the resulting file is of excellent quality and plays just fine through the hardware decoder of the PVR-350

If a DVD has no copy protection I wont even use SmartRipper. I import into Womble direct from the DVD and proceed with Step 2.

[ronkmd]

Thanks. I'd seen this post earlier. Any alternatives to Womble MPEG Video Wizard (which I don't have)? Womble MPEG VCR? DVD2VCD? TMPGEncPlus? Etc?

[sub]

There probably are alternatives, but I'm not sure what they are. Sorry.

[Guest]

Hi ronkmd

You can use DVDx to convert a DVD to an Mpeg. It’s free and you can get it from: http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/

By default will create standard SVCD files, but the settings can be changed for other sizes and bitrates.

Best regards,

Fernando

[Guest]

Hi ronkmd

You can use DVDx to convert a DVD to an Mpeg. It’s free and you can get it from: http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/

By default

[Guest]

You can also change the extension on the ripped .vob files to .mpg

.vob files are just mpeg2 files with a different extension to make them compliant with the DVD file system.

Media Player and most others will play them this way.