[GRLUG] Raspberry Pi Question

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:05:54AM -0400, David Wise wrote:
> I've been messing around with my RPi with Raspbmc for a little bit, but my
> biggest question is whether I can get it to play DVD .ISOs. The easiest
> method I've found for archiving my DVDs grabs them as an ISO that I can
> choose to convert to another format later. It'd be nice if I could skip
> that last step. So far I haven't really found decent info on how to get
> them playing though.
> 
> Anybody got any secrets they can share?

Does it have to be stored in an .iso?  Perhaps dvdbackup would help.  It
simply copies the DVD (with its file structure) to your drive.  The VOBs
are fairly straightforward to extract later.
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john-thomas
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