Hello!  I have a mix of avi and vob for one of my tv show collections.  I'd like to keep everything together and organized in one section for the tv series, rather than having some episodes in the video library (avi) and some in the DVD library (vob).  Is there any way to show vob files in the video library with the avi's, or even make a folder in the DVD library to store all of the tv series' vobs in one section?

If not, is there a way to convert vob to avi or another format that will show up in the video library and still have interactive menus intact?

Thanks!

John

I am speaking from my "Vista without TV Pack" experience.

A ripped DVD (vob files) will only show up in the DVD Library (assuming you point the DVD Library at the containing folder), and that structure is the only one that you can use for emulating the functions of the actual DVD (menu, special features, etc). Without any alterations, they will not play on an extender, and I don't think there is any current method for the menu and special features to work on an extender.

If you convert from VOB to some other format, you will not get the DVD functions, only the video/audio playback. With some formats, you may lose seek/ff/rw.

If you convert your TV series DVDs to .dvr-ms files, you can use EditDvrmsMetadata to modify the title, subtitle and WM/MediaIsMovie tags to make them play as a TV series. You can put them in the Public Videos folder (or a link) and they will show up in the Videos strip. They will also show up in the Recorded TV strip just like a series recorded from TV.

There is no way to get VOBs to show up in the video library and pre-Win7 there is no way to get avi's to show up in the DVD library.  Even in Win 7 with everything in the Movies Library, there would be no way to group all of the shows.

I do think that gildavis' suggestion of converting all to dvr-ms is the best solution to achieve what you are wanting.

You might try Media Browser which is a good 3rd party VMC add-in that does exactly these types of things.
http://www.mediabrowser.tv/

Mediabrowser worked like a charm.  Thanks a ton!

John