VOB Files Only Play Once

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  • January 3, 2013 at 6:14 pm #14155
    Anonymous
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    First post on the forum and hope someone can help me. I have been trying to play VOB files from a USB memory stick and have encountered a strange effect. When I have just the VOB file on the stick it plays fine, but if I stop and try and play again I get the message ‘Cannot support this file format’. However if I delete the .hmi file that gets created (leaving the .png file alone), or leave the VOB file to finish playing, I can play the VOB file again. Does anyone have any suggestions why the .hmi file being created should prevent the VOB file playing if I stop watching part way through? I have a lot of VOB files which I do not want to re-encode to another format. Thanks.

    January 3, 2013 at 7:22 pm #41187
    grahamlthompson
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    Hi welcome to the forum.

    Can you try changing the file extention to .mpg and see what happens.

    Vob’s are normally from a DVD folder. It’s very easy and fast to join them into one .ts file. No recoding required just a container switch.

    If you want to try this get a copy of tsmuxergui. Add the first vob use join for the rest and output as .ts. Mpeg2 transport stream is the native recording format for SD recordings.

    January 3, 2013 at 10:10 pm #41188
    Anonymous
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    Thanks for the welcome and the prompt response.

    I have tried renaming the file extension to .mpg and experience the same problem. I have also copied the VIDEO_RM and VIDEO_TS directories over and tried to play the first VOB (VTS_01_1.VOB)from the VIDEO_TS directory with the same result (including creation of the .pmg and .hmi files).

    I will therefore give ‘tsmuxergui’ a go and let you know how I get on.

    January 4, 2013 at 10:18 am #41189
    Anonymous
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    Pleased to report that converting the VOB to a .ts file using ‘tsmuxergui’ has solved the problem and as you say does not take long to do.

    I am now able to pause, rewind, fast forward, and resume from where I stopped reliably. I think the VOB issue is unique to the HDR-1000S unit as none of the posts for the FOXSAT ever mention this.

    Thanks for your help

    January 4, 2013 at 10:41 am #41190
    grahamlthompson
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    CraigW – 18 minutes ago  » 

    Pleased to report that converting the VOB to a .ts file using ‘tsmuxergui’ has solved the problem and as you say does not take long to do.

    I am now able to pause, rewind, fast forward, and resume from where I stopped reliably. I think the VOB issue is unique to the HDR-1000S unit as none of the posts for the FOXSAT ever mention this.

    Thanks for your help

    The Foxsat-hdr can’t replay any external content at all without conversion. To play back content like this on a Foxsat you have to convert to a single transport stream file and then create a new .ts with matching support .nts and .htm files (AV2HDR)

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