Heya, I first started using Kodi on a RaspberryPi for my living room TV. That Kodi is great at exactly what I wanted it for, which is running VOB files seamlessly with the DVD menus and everything just like I can on my PC with VLC player. My issue is trying to use Kodi installed on my new Android TV in my room.
I wanted to avoid getting another Pi if possible since I got an Android TV to have more capabilities unlike my dumber living room TV. I quickly found I could not run my VOB files on VLC for Android TV, and MXplayer also has issues where at least the files show, but I can’t seem to figure out a way to play the folder, allowing the files to function as a DVD. So I thought Kodi might work since it works on my Pi, but on the Android TV version of Kodi the VOB files both don’t show in the folder, and also don’t play if I try to play the folder like I do on the Pi Kodi. I tried both the google play version, and then tried to install a nightly build as someone suggested in some thread I found when I was researching this issue to find fixes. Same outcome between them, the files in the VIDEO_TS folder just don’t exist.
Here are my versions of my Pi Kodi and Android TV Kodi. Let me know if there is any other info that would help. I am trying to play files from a flashdrive if that matters as well.
Pi Kodi that shows VOB files
OS: LibreELEC (kernel: Linux 5.10.110)
Build: 19.5.0
Git: 19.5 Matrix
Android TV Kodi that does not
OS: Android TV 11.0.0 API level 30 (kernel: Linux 4.19.116++)
Build: 22.0-Alpha1 (21.90.700)
Git: 20240830-567207bd45
I am really struggling to find any info online to solve this issue, please let me know if there is a way to run DVD files on Android TV Kodi, I could just mux the files each time I want to watch one, but I would rather not have to have that extra step.