Vob & Mpg not playing on ext. desktop

[ddouglass]

I see one possibility in that list. The Nvidea GT 230M driver. A lot of people have had problems with the latest drivers for this card. Go to Nvidea and get one of the older drivers for this card and see if that doesn't improve video display.
I would also get the latest K-lite codecs.

[Chad Slater]

ok, I will check it out! thanks

[KenKelley]

What was the final outcome with attempting to play the .vob files on the extended desk top as I am having the same problem with 2 new Dell machines (1 with NVIDIA and 1 with Radeon). I have attempted the K-Lite Codec Pack to no avail.

[ddouglass]

What version of Hoster?
Unless you have an unusual version of VOB file the K-Lite Codecs should take care of this at least for the Radeon.
Also be sure you get any hardware updates for those two cards directly from Dell as the ones from Microsoft are normally wrong or out of date.

[KenKelley]

I should have put a little more info here. Also, I have turned in a ticket and MTU is thinking Bug because of my situation (not many folks use .vob video files) but after seeing this post, maybe you all have come up with a work around or remedy MTU isn't aware of.

1st Computer: Dell XPS 1701
OS: Windows 7 Professional
Memory: 8gig
Video: Nvidia (3gig memory)
Hoster: 4.32.12 (with all required Windows settings)

2nd Computer: Dell Inspiron 17R
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Memory: 6gig
Video: Radieon (1gig memory)
Hoster: 4.32.12 (with all required Windows settings)

VOB files are copied to my hard drive from "Pioneer Karaoke PDL Series" DVDs (about 650 and I have another 100 files copied from Ubest DVDs). These files worked flawlessly when I was running an HP with 2gig ram, shared video memory, Windows XP Home (Media Edition). I had tried the K-lite codecs on that laptop but discovered ffdshow worked better (it allowed for the mux button to operate for these particular files, K-lite would not).

I have installed Windows 7 Codec Pack from a site that Microsoft recommends for codec updates and now the Mux button works properly on the 2 new computers. The video however will only play in the singers display when it is on the laptop screen.....

I have updated both computers with all the software, driver, and bios updates from dell as well as all Windows 7 updates.

I have to say, the computers are great, Hoster 4.32.12 is even better than ever when any other file is played through it; CD+G, MP3+G, .DAT, wmv, etc with all other video file types being played showing up on the singers display and the mux button working properly weather or not I have a codec pack installed.

When I utilize an Insta Button to play a .vob file, the video not only shows on the singers display on the extended monitor but also on the preview display on the Hoster console! (Not in sync however) Never saw that before.

Just cannot quite figure out why the video from a .vob file disapears from the singers display when the display is moved to the extended screen.

One other thing, I have attempted to run non-karaoke .vob files as I would a karaoke .vob with the same results.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you might be able to render!

[Roy Dennis]

I don't know why you are having this problem but just to let you know that .vob files are playing correct on my Windows 7 system.
I have both ffdshow and k-light on my system. Have you tried tweaking the settings in K-light tweak tool, if all goes wrong you can always tick the box for reset settings of codec filters.
When I'm playing a .vob file I get 3 icons showing on the task bar, Haali media splitter, ffdshow video decoder & ffdshow audio decoder.
I attach a picture showing the settings from the codec tweak tool, it shows 3 pictures because I have to scroll it and can't display all the settings with one shot.

I get to this box from Start programes/k-light codec pack/Tools/codec tweak tool from the box that opens select "Manage prefered souce filters" and see if your settings match mine.

Another thing you can try as it works on mine, rename one the the files by just changing the extension to .mp4. ignore the warning, you can always change it back.

The only other thing that may be different is my vob files are music videos not lyrick only files.

[KenKelley]

Roy,

I will go back tonight and attempt to duplicate the settings or change the file name as you have suggested.

My .vob files are also Music Videos (they are the DVD verson of the 12" Pioneer Laser Karaoke disks).

A couple of things I neglected to mention in my previous post is that this only happens when I attempt to play the files from the play list. Also something that seems new is these files will play in Windows Media Player on both the laptop screen and the extended screen. Under Windows XP, the video portion would disappear when Windows Media Player was moved to the extended screen.

One more thing, the operating systems on both Dell computers are 64bit.

I shall post of what worked and what did not.

Thanks in advance!

Ken

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by kelleykd01

I have installed Windows 7 Codec Pack from a site that Microsoft recommends for codec updates and now the Mux button works properly on the 2 new computers. The video however will only play in the singers display when it is on the laptop screen.....

Are you saying you can get the video to play on the singer display on the extended screen? And not on the kj display? If so, video files will not display on the host computer as of yet, only displays on the singer display.

[KenKelley]

The Video is visible in the Singers Display when it is on the host laptop screen. When I move the Singers Display to the Singers Monitor (extended desktop) the video disappears completly and the music continues to play,

[Chad Slater]

As of yet, I still cannot get mine to play as have basically given up. What is strange is that when I have to hoster window that is on the ext desktop and drag it over to my main desktop and hit play I can get the .VOB files to play but when I move it over the ext. desktop it goes black.