Playing .VOB Video files

[nigelf1234]

Hi
I have been sent some digital video files which are .VOB - can anyone suggest the best method to play them? Windows Media player says it needs an add-on to play them and these all seem to be paid for (& some are quite pricey and am not certain which one I need.) Any ideas would be most welcome.
Nigel

[chrisrob]

These may help:
http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/file_extensi ons/vob.cfm
http://forum.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?messageID= 759293

[pauln90]

VLC player will play the files

http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000 -13632_4-10267151.html

[fo3nix]

Yea, grab VLC.

It's a general purpose media player. Not too great at organising your music (etc.) like Windows Media Player may be, but for just playing music or video, it's brilliant.

[Buenchico]

As others have indicated, VLC is vastly superior to Windows Media Player when it come to viewing videos. GOM is also excellent:
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html

Incidentally, VOB is the format used by commercial video disks. So you should be able to copy the files to a DVD and watch the videos using your DVD player and TV, rather than your PC.

Chris

[smith134]

Download K-lite media codec pack and install it. After that your windows media player can able to play vob format.
To free download :
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_cod ec_pack.htm

[ivy109]

As I know, vob is one of the dvd format.
I use Daniusoft DVD ripper to transfer dvd to my players, it works perfect.You may refer to it:
http://www.convert-video-dvd.com/dvd-ripper.ht ml#141

Highly suggest that you just use it to rip things that are original productions and not commercial.