Playing VOB dvds...can menu be easier? Options

[ericinboston]

Hi all! I just bought the WD TV the other day...I am literally only using it to play ripped dvds which are in the VOB format and the correct directory structure. I also typically rip just the movie...no menus or chapters or anything. But not always...sometimes the entire dvd is ripped.

My question is that when I navigate to them via the Video Folders, when I get to the movie, I've got, for example, 5 VOB files in each. Now, I'm a techie so I know what they are for and realize the _01.vob is where the movie starts (and that WD will just move on to _02 when _01 is done), but it seems kinda dumb for WD to display all 5. Why not just display the first _01.vob file? For non techies at my house, they're going to wonder why after clicking a few times to navigate dumps them into a folder full of VOBs.

I've looked in the Options and I do not see any kind of way to disguise this.

I don't want to make Playlists because that's just going to make more work for me. I'd rather just have a few folders (Comedy, Drama, Action for example) and then movie titles in those folders (Caddyshack, for example) and finally when I get to Caddyshack, there is just 1 "file" I need to click with the remote.

Any ideas? Or is this a feature request?

On a less imporant note, if instead of choosing Video Folders I choose All Videos, I get thousands of crazy files listed like .DAT files. I have no idea what they are and they typically start with CAT. Anyone know what these are and why WD is listing them?

-Eric

[ericinboston]

Hi all. I tried the MakeMKV and it's a pretty nice app...it's created a few movies for me and they seem to play just fine. The only negative feedback I have for MKV files is that there is no Chapter...so for long movies, I have to fast forward which takes forever since the WD TV maxes out at 16x (wish it was more like 48x or some kind of "skip ahead 10 mins" button on the remote. When I used MakeMKV, I was pointing it to directory structures on my drive...not a physical dvd.

If there is a way for me to create MKV files (a single file for the entire movie) that allows me to jump to chapters, please let me know...that would be quite handy.

Thanks again in advance!

-Eric