Serviio

I must be missing something but movies that are ripped into /Video_TS folders show up as individual VOB files. Is it possible to load the DVD so I get the root and title menus / options, and the movie plays through to the end?
If it matters, for clients I have a PS3 and 8Player on my IPad.

Thank you
SA

That's how it's done for DVD at the moment. It's planned to play it as 1 file in future.

Ok, thanks for the quick response.

SA

I have searched the forums and found this thread that replicates my query. Has there been any development on this aspect since the last post in Feb? I have over 1000 movies and they are all in VOB format - Serviio shows each VOB file as a separate file so there are 4-6 files for each movie. It makes it a very cumbersome process to search the movies and also to watch it as you have to select the next file in the movie to keep watching.

No progress yet.

I'm guessing this hasn't progressed much as the thread is old. Zip, what would you ask to fund this feature?

I might suggest ripping the DVD using different software. MakeMKV is free, and does an outstanding job with DVDs. You can select multiple audio and captions tracks, and many devices will play them without transcoding. It also rips DVDs very fast, with most 2+ hour movies done in about 15 minutes. Video and audio quality is equal to the original disc.

This of course isn't helpful if you already have hundreds of DVDs ripped into the TS folder structure. Just wanted to throw it out there.

Yep. That's pretty much how I do it right now. I think (and I could be wrong here) that Serviio is better at selecting the transcode options than I am for my display device. I use handbrake to transcode my movies. If I change my DVD player or my smart TV, my preference because of my understanding of the technology would be to re-transcode for the new device to gain the full advantage of the device features. And get the aspect ratio right, etc. That's a monumental waste of time for a library the size of mine.

I've noticed that any given DVD player does a better job at working out how to play correctly on my TV than I do. To put it another way, any given TV does a better job with the data from a DVD player than I do. I just want to cut out the limits I place on the content by manually transcoding it. My theory is that if I start off with the original content as it was packaged by the studio, Serviio will do a far better job than I can. On the fly, and with any platform I'm using as a player.

Not having to re-transcode from the source is worth money to me. There may be limits to the technology we are dealing with that I don't fully understand, but if what I am asking for is possible, I'm willing financially to help make it happen.

I also just discovered a different ripping product called MovieRescuer (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MovieRescuer. It rips a DVD into a single VOB file, and a Blu-ray into M2TS, with the entire video and audio structure intact. My Sony players play the M2TS natively, with full selection of multiple audio and/or caption tracks. I believe (but haven't tested yet) that they will play the VOB file without transcoding as well.

I'm with you about library size. I have over 600 movie titles, and well over 1000 TV series episodes, so I'm not going to be re-ripping everything. I am going to slowly re-do my BD discs, but there's only a couple dozen of those, and it's worth it for me to retain the HD audio and be able to select captions.

When I last replacing my media players, I checked for native MKV support, since that's what almost everything I have is ripped into. The BD players seem to support it better than the stand-alone boxes (such as the Roku). Even though Roku supports MKV, they don't support HD audio, even as a passthrough.