Can Airvideo play VOB Files ?

Hi,
i have here several VOB Files, a DVD that i copied to my PC. Is it possible to play VOB Files with AirVideo ??
I try that but i cannot see the files on my Iphone....

Air Video does not support playback of DVDs. It is not possible to play VOB files with Air Video.

ok, will this be supported in the future ?

It's rather unlikely. DVD playback would require implementation of support for DVD menus, chapters, scene selection, etc. You can use handbrake to convert your DVD rips to format supported by iPhone/iPod touch.

Admin wrote:Air Video does not support playback of DVDs. It is not possible to play VOB files with Air Video.

I have a number of tv series extracted as vobs. I used dvd shrink to remove menus and titles and also extracted each episode to single vob file. Although the vob files will not play back natively, they do work when the extension is change to mpg. I can live stream them over my home network or 3g without any problems.

Hope this helps...

Admin wrote:It's rather unlikely. DVD playback would require implementation of support for DVD menus, chapters, scene selection, etc. You can use handbrake to convert your DVD rips to format supported by iPhone/iPod touch.

Playback of VOB files does not require including any support for DVD navigation. These files have already been separated from the DVD. They're just un-compressed. ffplay will already happily play such files.

AirVideo probably already has the technical ability to stream these files if it chooses to acknowledge them.

It might but as a top respected app developer I am sure our Admin wants to stay an app developer.
The latest mac magazine has a how to using several 3'rd party programs. handbreak is one.

to AirVideo users: you can just rename .vob-files to .mpg or .mpeg extention.
to Admin: I think you just can add support for separate .vob files(as if it will be .mpegs) in next server update. it's needed to avoid of DVD-structure breaks in user folders to others programs by renaming original .vob's

sorry for my bad english, but I think you understand me.
Thank You.

Would be great if AirVideo also supports VIDEO_TS.VOB files.
Makes it possible to copy my DVD's to a media server and stream them from there to my iPad.

Renaming .VOB files to .MPG doesn't work for me.
Get an invalid message in AirVideo file select.

Yes, I know I can convert my VOB files, but to convert all my DVD's is no option for me.
I just want to be able to play VIDEO_TS maps directly.
Thanks anyway

For all of you that have bunches of DVDs ripped into .VOB files or VIDEO_TS folders (just my case), I found the solution with MAKEMKV. You will preserve video quality and other features (multi audio tracks, subtitles) and MKV is supported by Air Video.

Hope this helps,

have you really managed to get subtitles to work with makemkv and air video? i have been told that air video requires separate subtitle files, and makemkv embeds subtitles, doesnt it?

Personally, I like to use vobcopy to merge a DVD into a big vob file and then, change the container to something more "standard" without reencoding video and audio.

It's really simple:

1. Insert your DVD ROM or mount the .ISO somewhere.

example :

2. Use vobcopy to merge your vobs into one big file :

as of version 1.2.0, vobcopy will attempt to find your DVD autmatically, it will even try /dev/loop0 automatically so it can be as simple as the command listed above.

3. Optional (but often required), because vobcopy will sometime produce a file that doesn't report the correct duration and thus, AirVideo stops after the first chapter. So we need to reconstruct index and we might as well change the container for a standard AVI container. More widely supported than MKV.

After this three steps, you get an AVI file than can be played by practically everything, without any transcoding from the original DVD file.

PS. (These are all free utilities for Linux. You can probably get some (if not all) of them for Windows and Mac OS X...)