Re: Play VOB files using WMP ActiveX control

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If one copies a VOB file from a physical mastered DVD to the local hard drive
it will not play using WMP. This is supported behaviour and it doesn't seem
to be limited to protected disks:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316992
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313327/en-us

However, as noted many times in this very forum, if one changes the file
extension of this copied VOB file from .vob to .mpg it WILL play correctly
using WMP.

Therefore, I don't understand your response at all.

"Alessandro Angeli" wrote:

From: "ejm3"

Is there a way to play VOB files copied from a DVD to the
HD using the WMP ActiveX control WITHOUT changing the
file extensions to .mpg?

WMP doesn't care about file extensions.

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// Alessandro Angeli
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