Video formats

[Invincer]

Any chances of increasing the kinds of video formats in the future? I have tried and tried and just can't find a way or format I am happy with when converting a DVD to an AVI. I can dump the DVD to the HD and launch the identical quality movie by IFO file (or the VOBs directly). I would love it if GameEx could treat IFOs like AVIs (play the, preview the vid file, show DVD art...

Also... would be cool if the launching of videos or DVDs could prelaunch a short intro avi or mov file. This would be great for people using GameEx on their home theaters and if they have a personal movie intro. Just a thought...

[bkenobi]

Registered users can run DVD's directly from the hard drive. I presume these are the vob files, but I have never used the feature, so I can't say for sure.

[Invincer]

Oh I registered the first day I used GameEx. But the DVD on Disk feature takes 2 minutes to load the menu page, and it supports only ISOs, not IFO menu files like on the DVDs. I don't want the whole DVD, just the movie parts, with IFO reading you can customize what you want from the DVD (maybe even include your own intro to start a movie if you wanted to like mentioned previously). It would be like the best of both worlds. Customization like when ripping AVIs, but with the full DVD quality of the real DVD VOB files...

[bkenobi]

Ahhh, well in that case you are correct that it isn't currently supported. This is obviously a new feature request, so I would highly recommend adding it to the features request thread in the stickies.

[Belinda]

You can rip DVD to disk and select only the parts you want with DVD Decrypter. You might want to try that as it's a free app.

[bkenobi]

I think Invincer was saying that once the DVD was ripped to the HDD, he can't play it in GameEx because the native DVD format isn't supported. It's certainly possible to rip a DVD to the drive with DVD Decrypter (or another similar app) and then convert that to an ISO for GameEx, but it's a bit of extra work that might be avoided with a small change from Tom (potentially).