In MCE 2005, I could play a ripped DVD from my hard drive by going to the
Video menu and navigating to the relevant folder. Using the Media centre in
Vista Ultimate, I'm not able to do this. When I add the folder with the DVD
in it, nothing is added to my library. I've also tried installed WinDVD
(which is Vista compatible) and although the DVD's work fine in WinDVD, I
still can't play them in Vista Media Center.

Its possible MCE is using DRM (Digital Rights Management) to tell if you
have copy righted material or not.
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"Steve" <SteveWT******.com> wrote in message
news:ExAmh.376213$X52.171838@fe03.news.easynews.com...[color=blue]
> In MCE 2005, I could play a ripped DVD from my hard drive by going to the
> Video menu and navigating to the relevant folder. Using the Media centre
> in Vista Ultimate, I'm not able to do this. When I add the folder with the
> DVD in it, nothing is added to my library. I've also tried installed
> WinDVD (which is Vista compatible) and although the DVD's work fine in
> WinDVD, I still can't play them in Vista Media Center.
>
>[/color]

Why don't you run the ripped files using WinDVD?

I suspect that Media Center has deliberately disabled this.

"Steve" <SteveWT******.com> wrote in message
news:ExAmh.376213$X52.171838@fe03.news.easynews.com...[color=blue]
> In MCE 2005, I could play a ripped DVD from my hard drive by going to the
> Video menu and navigating to the relevant folder. Using the Media centre
> in Vista Ultimate, I'm not able to do this. When I add the folder with the
> DVD in it, nothing is added to my library. I've also tried installed
> WinDVD (which is Vista compatible) and although the DVD's work fine in
> WinDVD, I still can't play them in Vista Media Center.
>
>[/color]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:40:43 -0500, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]"
<andred25********.com> wrote:
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>Its possible MCE is using DRM (Digital Rights Management) to tell if you
>have copy righted material or not.[/color]

Try My Movies for MCE. Latest version is works with Vista.

[url]http://www.mymovies.name/[/url]

make sure that you have an the MPEG Vista decoder installed that works with
it (try an play the disk useing windows Meda player if it does not work in
that it problery be that)

it could be vista removed the ablity to paly VOB files (i not had chance to
try out vista meida in an Vmware box yet)
Rip the disk into an AVI format Divx for e.g.

"Steve" wrote:
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> In MCE 2005, I could play a ripped DVD from my hard drive by going to the
> Video menu and navigating to the relevant folder. Using the Media centre in
> Vista Ultimate, I'm not able to do this. When I add the folder with the DVD
> in it, nothing is added to my library. I've also tried installed WinDVD
> (which is Vista compatible) and although the DVD's work fine in WinDVD, I
> still can't play them in Vista Media Center.
>
>
>[/color]