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The error quoted in the subject line of this post appears in many places across the internet. However no solutions ever materialize from the conversations that are had, or the solutions are not relevant to my (seemingly very simple) problem.

All I want to do is to play vob files! I've upgraded to a paid membership so video playback _should_ be enabled. I don't store my movies in avi or mp4 or flv or xvid or whatever. I don't rip them. I have mounted DVDs, or I have ISO files that I mount via the linux mount command (mount -o loop FOO.iso /path/to/mountpoint #inside registered music folder)

What is the deal?

Please don't flame me; I've been scouring the internet for over 3 hours trying to fix this on my own.

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Playback Application and version: web player that comes bundled with the most recent version of subsonic, as downloaded and installed from subsonic download page *today* 2011-03-13
Subsonic Version: 4.4 (build 2169) – February 6, 2011
Server Version: jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_24, Linux (60.5 MB / 90.9 MB)
Hardware Platform: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS AMD64
Java Memory Limit: 100Mb
Output from ffmpeg -i: FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Mar 4 2010 12:41:55, gcc: 4.4.3
Input #0, mpeg, from 'VTS_10_1.VOB':
Duration: 00:20:45.11, start: 0.207756, bitrate: 6898 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480 [PAR 32:27 DAR 16:9], 9800 kb/s, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
Stream #0.1[0x20]: Subtitle: dvdsub
Stream #0.2[0x21]: Subtitle: dvdsub
Stream #0.3[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 448 kb/s
Stream #0.4[0x83]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified
Last ten log file lines: 13778 [main] INFO org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@36511e0a: defining beans [leftController,rightController,statusController,mainController,topController,helpController,moreController,uploadController,lyricsController,allmusicController,podcastController,podcastReceiverController,podcastReceiverAdminController,setMusicFileInfoController,setRatingController,randomPlaylistController,loadPlaylistController,savePlaylistController,changeCoverArtController,nowPlayingController,searchController,settingsController,playerSettingsController,musicFolderSettingsController,networkSettingsController,transcodingSettingsController,internetRadioSettingsController,podcastSettingsController,searchSettingsController,generalSettingsController,advancedSettingsController,personalSettingsController,avatarUploadController,userSettingsController,passwordSettingsController,homeController,editTagsController,playlistController,xspfPlaylistController,coverArtController,avatarController,proxyController,statusChartController,userChartController,m3uController,streamController,videoPlayerController,downloadController,donateController,multiController,wapController,restController,dbController,savePlaylistValidator,donateValidator,userSettingsValidator,passwordSettingsValidator,urlMapping,messageSource,themeSource,localeResolver,themeResolver,viewResolver]; parent: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@585976c2
14447 [main] INFO org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'subsonic': initialization completed in 1285 ms
14464 [main] INFO org.mortbay.log - Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:6933
16134 [main] INFO org.mortbay.log - Started SslSocketConnector@0.0.0.0:6934
Subsonic running on: http://localhost:6933/
and: https://localhost:6934/
16210 [main] INFO org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter - Looking for RMI registry at port '9412'
16222 [main] INFO org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter - Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one
16268 [main] INFO org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter - Binding service 'SubsonicDeployerService' to RMI registry: RegistryImpl[UnicastServerRef [liveRef: [endpoint:[192.168.1.5:9412](local),objID:[0:0:0, 0]]]]
20118 [btpool0-2] INFO org.directwebremoting.log.startup - Starting: DwrServlet v3.0.0.116.rc1 on jetty-6.1.x / JDK 1.6.0_24 from Sun Microsystems Inc. at
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I have seen some topics discussing the use of VOB files, but I'm not too sure how much success was achieved. In any event, SS is not really designed to be used with VOB's. It's much better suited to mp4 or flv files for video playback. Any files that require on-the-fly transcoding are going to take a lot of cpu power and bog down throughput. Preformatting files into the aforementioned formats allows them to play directly in JW Player without transcoding. I've written numerous posts regarding video playback with SS. Bring up my profile and click on search all posts to find them.