Can powerdvd Xp play dvd from harddisk?

[Jaspov]

Powerdvd 3 could not play a FULL dvd from harddisk. Vob files would do but you could not mirror a dvd on your hd and then tell powerdvd that your harddisk was your dvd drive (to use menus, subs and all)

Can the new powerdvd do this? Right now using windvd and that works fine for this purpose.

[Jaspov]

anyone?

[Mental]

Well I have not tried it, but it supports .ifo files so it should work..

[pdontthink]

It definitely plays vob files, avi files, but
I personally couldn't get it to follow an ifo
file... strangely, I could point it to a directory,
and it would then play all the vob's it found there
in order presumably of the file names, with a
big gap between vob files while it loads the next.
But that's not acceptable, obviously. All the
guides I've read also suggest that PowerDVD cannot
play such movies from the hard drive.

[JeffreyLiou]

The PowerDVD XP did play the movie from HD and it could be used to check what files you need to play the whole DVD smoothly(the menu,structure..etc) before you burn to DVD-RW.
http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/Forum/viewtopic.php4?topic=39&forum=4&22

[pdontthink]

I'd love to see how to do that, but the URL
you gave is not working.... :(

[sibe]

Doom9 just wrote a guide about this. Here's the link:
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/hd-playback.htm

Sibe

[JeffreyLiou]

Originally posted by pdontthink
I'd love to see how to do that, but the URL
you gave is not working.... :(

Hmmm...It's a working link, please try again, or you could go to Derrow's homepage and then see the IfoEdit forum

[pdontthink]

Thanks for the links (they both worked when I tried them
this evening).... I still cannot get PowerDVD to play my
.ifo file, but perhaps that is because it is not called
"VIDEO_TS.IFO"??? I only ripped a couple chapters of my
DVD for testing, and my .ifo file is called I think it was
vts_06_0.ifo. The other file names (vob, etc) correspond
to that name, so I assumed they would work, but no luck...

[JeffreyLiou]

Originally posted by pdontthink
..I still cannot get PowerDVD to play my
.ifo file, but perhaps that is because it is not called
"VIDEO_TS.IFO"??? I only ripped a couple chapters of my
DVD for testing, and my .ifo file is called I think it was
vts_06_0.ifo. ...

Only the PowerDVD XP version not the previous version would play the DVD movie from HD by opening the VIDEO_TS.IFO , and besides the main movie,may be it was vts_06_xx.vob/ifo in your situation, other vob/ifo are also needed to play the menu smoothly , you could get this through try-and-error efforts.

[pdontthink]

Hmmm, not sure what sort of trial and error
I can do... I didn't rip any menus, just
three chapters, spread between two different
vob files. I *can* drag any of my vob files
in to PowerDVD (yes, I have XP), and they
play fantastic (but of course, playback ends
at the end of that vob file). But when I
drag the .ifo file (or try to open it in any
other way), the player simply does not respond,
as if it doesn't have the right codec or
misunderstands the ifo file.

I'm hoping that when I rip an entire movie
and try starting from Video_ts.ifo, this problem
will go away...

[JeffreyLiou]

Yap! what you are doing now is playing vob in the file mode not the entire movie from the HD. In some movies, if you just ripped out one audio and one subtitle track you want to reduce the size to fit a single DVD-R and fortunately there still have some space and you want the ripped DVD play nicely as the origin one with menu. In this situation you open the video_ts.ifo with powerDVD XP and put some ifo/vob one at time other than the main movie to see the whole DVD with menu could play normally

[medula]

i've ripped blow(rc1) like described in the hdd playback guide... but when i open the ifo file in powerdvd xp and press the play button a message box appears with following text: No Disc in Drive E:

what have i done wrong?

[Ziemas]

I am having the same problems playing files from the hard drive. Tried reinstalling PowerDVD and have the update as of 8/3/02. This is a problem with all films. I've tried different regions, and even silvers.
Read the guides to no avail. Thanks for any advice.