I have recently changed PC’s so had to install Plex. Everything went well and I can see my movie library barring any movies that are in the VOB format. Not sure what the issue is here and I cant see any obvious setting.
I should say it sees the folder that contains the VOB file but comes back as empty
Does this folder have only one vob file per movie or several VOB’s per movie?
While Plex may successfully recognize the former, the latter will inevitably fail.
As a test, use makemkv (google it) to transfer the content of the VOB file(s) into a MKV container (there is not quality reduction involved here!).
Make sure it conforms to the Plex ´file naming rules: https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/
Hi,
Only a single VOB file and its the same for any vob files in other folders.
Equally if there is a folder with multiple versions (mp4, VOb etc) then it recognises all files barring vob.
Naming conventions should be good as I had this working fine before
Will try converting to MKV as a test but would prefer not to have to convert half the library
Are you saying that you don’t have fitting VIDEO_TS.IFO files for your VOB files?
In which case it might work to drag the vob file directly into MKVtoolnixGUI instead.
for %%f in (*.vob) do (
REM replace with
REM for /r %%f in (*.vob) do (
REM to do it recursively
echo %%~nf
"C:\Program Files\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge" -o "%%~nf.mkv" "%%~nf.vob"
)
Try it on a copy of one of your smaller folders first!
I take no responsibility for any mess-ups.
You’ll have to remove the .vob files manually, afterwards.