VOB files are mostly found in the DVD discs and these files are of very high quality. The size of the VOB files is four times bigger than that of AVI file format.

These files are designed in such a manner that it can be played in the old technology used in the DVD players and all players available in the computer can play the VOB files. The main idea behind developing the VOB files is that it must be portable and can be played in any device capable of running the video files. The only disadvantage of the VOB files is that the size of the files is very large and the people using devices like I pods do not store these files as these files will use up the entire hard disk space.

VLC media player is the default player to play the VOB files and if this player is installed in the computer then the icon of the VOB file automatically changes to VLC media player file format. When the user clicks on the icon, the file starts to play in the VLC media player automatically. The VOB file player has many options to forward or rewind the video file. Mostly the movie files will be in the VOB format and a single movie file will be in the size of about 4.5 GB. The VOB file player can be downloaded from the internet from web sites like brother soft and CNET. A Google search on the player will also link to useful web sites where the VOB file player can be downloaded.

The file size of the player will be around 30 MB and can be installed in the computer. Then after installing the player, the files can be played using this player. This player can also be used to play the mp3 files in the desk top computer but Winamp is the most popular mp3 player used world wide to play mp3 files. One of the advantages of the VOB file player is that audio can be enhanced in this player making the sound increase for an ordinary file but the hard ware engineers state that this type of audio acceleration will damage the device drivers especially the audio and graphics drivers. Then the customer has to spend money in replacing the drivers but most of the times this does not happen while using the player.