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Henriette van de Haar - 20 Feb 2007 23:20 GMT

Hi,

I have a spanish movie with a directory with 3 kind of files. The
extensions are .bup, .ifo and .vob.
On my PC I can see the movie. I just have to click an .ifo or a .vob
file resp. I can open these file with Windows Media Player.
On my Mac I tried to play the movie, trying to open these files with
Window Media Player for Mac. This did not work. I also tried Quicktime
Player for Mac, but it did not work either.

Does anybody know which player I need to run these movie files?

Best Regards,
Henriette, Hamburg / Germany

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Harri Mellin - 21 Feb 2007 02:49 GMT

Den Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:20:56 +0100 skrev Henriette van de Haar:

> Hi,
>
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> Best Regards,
> Henriette, Hamburg / Germany

try VLC

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 21 Feb 2007 16:32 GMT

> > I have a spanish movie with a directory with 3 kind of files. The
> > extensions are .bup, .ifo and .vob.
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>
> try VLC

Yep, VLC will play it.
The .vob is typical of MPEG2 (DVD??) movies.
QuickTIme Player *could* play the video portion if you had the (not
free) MPEG-2 codecs installed (you need to buy them on the Apple Store)

You could also consider converting the movie to a more convenient format
like H.264 or DivX (ffmpeg X - shareware, or D-Vision - free).
If you do it right, you'll have very little loss in quality with a
tremendously reduced file size.

Corentin

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Henriette van de Haar - 22 Feb 2007 22:35 GMT

Corentin Cras-Méneur schrieb:

>>> I have a spanish movie with a directory with 3 kind of files. The
>>> extensions are .bup, .ifo and .vob.
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> If you do it right, you'll have very little loss in quality with a
> tremendously reduced file size.

I'll try. But I would first like to try this VLC, of which I do not know
what it is.

Henriette/Hamburg

> Corentin

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Henriette van de Haar - 22 Feb 2007 22:34 GMT

Harri Mellin schrieb:

> Den Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:20:56 +0100 skrev Henriette van de Haar:
>
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>
> try VLC

can you speel out VLC? I do not know what it is :(

Henriette/Hamburg

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 22 Feb 2007 23:16 GMT

>>> Does anybody know which player I need to run these movie files?

>> try VLC
>
>can you speel out VLC? I do not know what it is :(

First hit on Google (it's a media player)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=VLC&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Cheers - Neil
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http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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Henriette van de Haar - 23 Feb 2007 00:36 GMT

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] schrieb:

>>>> Does anybody know which player I need to run these movie files?
>
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> First hit on Google (it's a media player)
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=VLC&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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