Sorahl 6 Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 Hi folks, I've been struggling with this and finally decided to reach out and get some help. I have, like many of you, a sizable movie collection. My choice of dealing with my dvd library is to rip dvd discs to be played on my mediacenter as if they were put in a dvd player. Each movie is is in a VIDEO_TS folder (is this best? or should all the files in the VIDEO_TS folder be in a folder like this MOVIE Name - - fiiles here or MOVIE Name - - VIDEO_TS - files here and now the bigger issue. how best to deal with multiple discs currently I have MOVIE NAME - - Disc 1 -VIDEO_TS - DISC 2 - VIDEO_TS as you may have guessed this is not working for me in EMBY, where as it does if I just launch vlc Suggestions are welcome, solutions craved Regards, john
ebr 16169 Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 Hi. We highly suggest converting those to more stream-friendly files - mkv or mp4. Most modern devices will not understand disc layouts which means we have to try and convert them on the fly and that is hit or miss these days (no one is doing new development with those formats).
Sorahl 6 Posted June 11, 2020 Author Posted June 11, 2020 Thanks for your response. Converting them isn't an option, I have over 1200 dvd's ripped in this format. Is there no folder layout that I can try that Emby would interpret and display appropriately? John
ebr 16169 Posted June 11, 2020 Posted June 11, 2020 Sorry but support for this is only going to get worse, I'm afraid. Especially when it comes to playback. There are tools that can do these conversions in bulk/batch and you don't have to re-encode.
Sorahl 6 Posted June 11, 2020 Author Posted June 11, 2020 Luke, For example M_Drive\M_Drive_TV_Box_Sets\Hopalong_Cassidy\Hopalong_Cassidy_Disc1 \Hopalong_Cassidy_Disc2 ... \Hopalong_Cassidy_Disc12 in the disc1 folder is the VideoTS folder for that disc. On that disc there are 8 episodes. Each Disc shows up separately in my Emby LIbrary, but when I play, for example Disc 1, it only plays ONE of the 8 titles. It doesn't bring up the DVD menu as I would expect. If i were to load that folder in VLC Player I get the dvd menu and can select any or all of the 8 episodes on it. I guess I thought I should get similar behaviour when selecting Disc 1 in Emby. Does this make sense as I've tried to explain it? John
Carlo 4560 Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 Been a while since I've used this but don't think it's going to work very well with TV Shows like this but mostly for movies. It's not going to read/use DVD menus or things like that and will have an almost impossible way of trying to match up episodes.
RanmaCanada 494 Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 use makemkv to remux everything don't convert them. Emby hasn't supported this feature for years. Those of us with large raw content, have had to do this. It's not that difficult, just time consuming. Just be glad you don't have anime that has one pgc and the subs are all timed from the beginning so no subs show up after episode 1 due to timings haha:) 1
Sorahl 6 Posted June 12, 2020 Author Posted June 12, 2020 i'll give it a try on those discs that are more than just one movie.. Thanks
Sorahl 6 Posted June 16, 2020 Author Posted June 16, 2020 is there a way to revert to a previous version of Emby that supports the external player? even my regular movies in video_ts are not playing like they used to. I know.. I have heard everyone saying that moving to mkv or mp4 is the best way but... i'm being stubborn.. john
Carlo 4560 Posted June 16, 2020 Posted June 16, 2020 "Resistance is futile" LOL You really do want to start converting your files as compatibility across many different apps (not talking Emby) will suffer. People right now want streaming formats, not static formats for media players. You may want to look into Kodi and Theater as they both offer the features you are asking for. 1
Sorahl 6 Posted June 16, 2020 Author Posted June 16, 2020 (edited) I'll check Kodi, what is Theater? (Even Locutus resisted) Cheers, John Edited June 16, 2020 by Sorahl cuz
Carlo 4560 Posted June 16, 2020 Posted June 16, 2020 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Sorahl said: I'll check Kodi, what is Theater? https://emby.media/download.html 2nd row in client section Edited June 16, 2020 by cayars
Luke 42077 Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 Emby theater supports external players. I think that will be your best bet. 1
Dez_Lamar 10 Posted November 15, 2025 Posted November 15, 2025 Does Emby have support for .vob, .ifo, and .bup file types
Luke 42077 Posted November 17, 2025 Posted November 17, 2025 On 11/14/2025 at 8:40 PM, Dez_Lamar said: Does Emby have support for .vob, .ifo, and .bup file types What kind of support? Do you mean as loose, random files? Or as a dvd folder rip?
Dez_Lamar 10 Posted December 16, 2025 Posted December 16, 2025 On 11/17/2025 at 3:48 PM, Luke said: What kind of support? Do you mean as loose, random files? Or as a dvd folder rip? as a dvd folder rip
Luke 42077 Posted December 16, 2025 Posted December 16, 2025 5 hours ago, Dez_Lamar said: as a dvd folder rip OK, then yes, limited experimental support.
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