Which program plays VOB video files of DVDs?
 

Good day, using Mint 17 or Ubuntu, which program, video player, media player, will play VOB file videos, such as we often have on DVD?

I have MPlayer and Totem, but they do not appear in my software menu.

I added a GUI to MPlayer and it appears in the menu, but when I try to open the DVD with MPlayer, it reads: "Error in skin config file on line 6: PNG error in/usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main"

How did you install Mplayer and Totem, and in which distro do they not appear in the menu? You should have a manu editor where you can add them.

Either will play the VOB, but for a commercial DVD you need to make sure you have libdvdcss to get past the protection. Mint and Manjaro should install it; for Fedora, get the media codecs from rpmfusion and libdvdcss from livna.

I installed MPlayer using software manager, and installed MPlayer and MPlayer GUI. I looked for libdvdcss and found I have libdvdcss2. Not libdvdcss-dev

I installed Totem months ago and forget how I did that one.

Thanks David.

what players
all of them

but

Some are better than others

mplayer is a terminal only
now there is a gnome GUI and a QT one but dvd's are still "experimental "

i would use VLC to play ripped dvd vob folders

You can combine all the .VOBs into one file and change the extension to mpg to make it easier to play or convert. Also, smplayer is mplayer with a GUI.

Try GOM player works fine with me

If it's just mplayer, rather than gnome-mplayer or umplayer, then it won't be in the menu because it's a terminal program. Type
man mplayer in the terminal to see how to use it.

It sounds like this is with Mint, since you have the libraries, so it should play. What happens when you run totem and tell it to play the DVD or VOB file? If a program fails without explanation, you can run it from a terminal and the error messages will be printed there.

Pratik, where can I get GOM Player?

Or use a little utility like lsdvd to find the chapters then play it.
If you want to save the movie to hard drive for later then
As others have said libdvdcss is necessary for DVD's.

Edit: If you want to play that movie.vob later then

bm-Inspiron-410 bm # mplayer dvdnav:// -mouse-movements
MPlayer 1.1-4.8 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvdnav://.
No stream found to handle url dvdnav://


Exiting... (End of file)

I got this result with the DVD in the drive.

try mplayer dvd://1

You'll need libdvdnav installed for that. dvdnav gets you the dvd menu to choose titles. You don't have to have it. That little utility called lsdvd will show you whats on the dvd. Sometimes the main movie is title 1 but not always.

I'm not clear on something. Do you already have the .vob dumped onto the hard drive?
If so it will need to have been run through libdvdcss to be decrypted. Or point mplayer to that .vob as dvd device and it will decrypt while playing if you have libdvdcss installed. If it is a .vob file that has been dumped without decryption then trying to play it like a file will cause the player to crash and the video scrambled.

Also are you trying to play video as root? You might try it as user. And as others have said, mplayer needs to be installed correctly.

This is for Arch but has relevant info.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPlayer

and why mess around with mplayer

it is great for most videos
EXCEPT for dvd's
mplayer dose not do a good job on them

thee menus do not work well

that is why VLC2 is RECOMMENDED for playing dvd's

I cannot find VLC2 in the software package downloader
I am thinking of dual booting with Ubuntu Studio.
I tried WINE and windows video players, but they didn't work and I got added software which I don't need...
"mplayer dvd://1" did not go.

you did not look hard
version 2.15
ubuntu
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html
mint
http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/vlc