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convenientparking
20th December 2007, 18:51
I often use DVD Shrink to rip movies to my PC that I have no intention of copying--I just want to watch them on my computer and then delete them (these are either movies I own and plan to watch on a trip without bringing the disc, or movies I've rented and didn't get a chance to watch). Does anyone know of a good program on which to watch them? I can't import them to windows media player or quicktime or realplayer. With movies in English, I just watch on the DVD Shrink preview window, but this window doesn't display subtitles, so I can't do it with anything foreign. So, what I'm asking is, does anybody know of a program that will treat these audio/video TS files like a DVD and allow me to turn on subtitles?

Thanks.

unskinnyboy
20th December 2007, 20:43
WMP, QT and RealPlayer - can't decide which is worst (even though in WMP, if you browsed to the folder and selected all the files and clicked 'Open' it should have played the movie). I'd recommend you use VLC Media Player (point it to the VIDEO_TS folder) or Media Player Classic (point it to the IFO file).

convenientparking
22nd December 2007, 21:54
Thanks a lot. Those other programs certainly do suck (and I think I tried what you recommended with WMP to no avail, but I don't exactly know what I'm doing.) Anyway, VLC looks like it will work perfectly. Thanks again.