Windows Media Player cannot skip to the requested location in the DVD at this time.

[Scott Bonds]

When I try to play a standalone .vob (no other files the directory) in WMP9
under XP, the player says it's playing, but the play cursor never moves,
nothing plays, and in the playlist the drive letter of the file appears in
red with an exclaimation mark next to it instead of showing the name of the
file as it does with mp3s or other content it's playing. I right click on
the name and the context menu gives me the option "Error Details..." which
yields the error:

Windows Media Player cannot skip to the requested location in the DVD at
this time.

I have NVDVD v2.55 installed, so it has the codecs to play DVDs. It seems
to be looking for an associated menu IFO in order to play. I can play stand
alone VOBs in NVDVD just fine though. And if I rename the .vob to a .mpg,
it plays at a wierd speed without sound, but it's almost working. Seems to
we that WMP9 is making some incorrect assumption about the .VOB, I'm
guessing it assumes their is always of full DVD with IFO, rather that just
taking the VOB and playing it alone. Any ideas?

 

[Alex Zambelli [MSFT]]

I suspect this is due to a problem with your MPEG-2 codec(s). You say
that renaming to .mpg makes WMP play the video using Microsoft's default
codec. The catch is that Microsoft doesn't ship an MPEG-2 codec, so it'd
have be another 3rd party MPEG-2 codec that DirectShow is falling back
on. Do you have more than one MPEG-2/DVD decoder installed on your
machine?

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[Scott Bonds]

Alex,

I've installed and uninstalled a number of different MPG players. But when
I've uninstalled NVDVD most recently, WMP would report that it could not
play .VOBs at all until I reinstalled NVDVD, so it would seem that at least
the association with .VOBs was set excluzively with NVDVD.

But, I also have some other video editing software installed...maybe the
codec that was acting as the default on my machine was from one of those.
In any case, do you know if there is a way to select my prefered decoder
from the list of those I have installed that could play some content? With
files that have an extension, there is a way in explorer to set the default
application that opens it when you double-click it...it would be nice to
have the same sort of control over which of my list of mpg codecs is used to
play mpg content by default.

--
later,

Scott Bonds
(e-mail address removed)

I suspect this is due to a problem with your MPEG-2 codec(s). You say
that renaming to .mpg makes WMP play the video using Microsoft's default
codec. The catch is that Microsoft doesn't ship an MPEG-2 codec, so it'd
have be another 3rd party MPEG-2 codec that DirectShow is falling back
on. Do you have more than one MPEG-2/DVD decoder installed on your
machine?

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Alex Zambelli [MSFT]
WMP Test Team
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Found a work around:

Renamed my .vob to .mpg. WMP then plays the file using NVDVD's audio codec
and MS's default MPG codec for the video. I didn't like the performance of
the default MPG codec, so I removed it and the NVDVD codec then replaced it
as the default codec for the video.

I wish there were a way to just set that instead of using regsvr32 /u on the
video .ax, but as long as I don't uninstall NVDVD I imagine things will be
fine. I'll have to reregister the old .ax if I go back.

--
later,

Scott Bonds
(e-mail address removed)

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