DVDs on Hard Drives problem

Hi all

I have recently put my Media Centre over to Vista 32bit Home Premium. I was
using XP Media Centre 2005 before. I have 4x 500Gb external hard drives
running through USB 2.0 all of which have my DVD ripped to in uncompressed
format. (I copied them across using DVD Shrink (but without compression)).
When I used these files in XP MCE, MCE was able to recognise that these were
infact DVDs and played them with no problems.

However, in Vista, the folders are recognised, but it just doesn't know what
to do with the information within them! Any ideas on how to make Vista
'realise' that these are DVDs and how to play them?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks. Ben.

"Ben Keene" <> wrote
> Hi all
>
> I have recently put my Media Centre over to Vista 32bit Home Premium. I
> was using XP Media Centre 2005 before. I have 4x 500Gb external hard
> drives running through USB 2.0 all of which have my DVD ripped to in
> uncompressed format. (I copied them across using DVD Shrink (but without
> compression)). When I used these files in XP MCE, MCE was able to
> recognise that these were infact DVDs and played them with no problems.
>
> However, in Vista, the folders are recognised, but it just doesn't know
> what to do with the information within them! Any ideas on how to make
> Vista 'realise' that these are DVDs and how to play them?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.


Ben, If you don't get a reply here you might want to to post to the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_vide o newsgroup.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

it is possible it is a file type problem. where you do not have a program installed that understands the file type.

what file type did the copied files end up with.

give VLC (video lan) a try , it plays a lot of different file types, video and music.







"Ben Keene" <> wrote in message news:...
Hi all

I have recently put my Media Centre over to Vista 32bit Home Premium. I was
using XP Media Centre 2005 before. I have 4x 500Gb external hard drives
running through USB 2.0 all of which have my DVD ripped to in uncompressed
format. (I copied them across using DVD Shrink (but without compression)).
When I used these files in XP MCE, MCE was able to recognise that these were
infact DVDs and played them with no problems.

However, in Vista, the folders are recognised, but it just doesn't know what
to do with the information within them! Any ideas on how to make Vista
'realise' that these are DVDs and how to play them?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks. Ben.

I can do much the same thing with DVDFab Decrypter.

I first open Media player. I then use Media Player to open the folder where
the files are stored. I highlight **all** of the files in that folder. Then
I click on the open button. The video plays.

See if it works for you.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"Ben Keene" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi all
>
> I have recently put my Media Centre over to Vista 32bit Home Premium. I
> was using XP Media Centre 2005 before. I have 4x 500Gb external hard
> drives running through USB 2.0 all of which have my DVD ripped to in
> uncompressed format. (I copied them across using DVD Shrink (but without
> compression)). When I used these files in XP MCE, MCE was able to
> recognise that these were infact DVDs and played them with no problems.
>
> However, in Vista, the folders are recognised, but it just doesn't know
> what to do with the information within them! Any ideas on how to make
> Vista 'realise' that these are DVDs and how to play them?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks. Ben.