[GRLUG] Raspberry Pi Question

[David Wise]

I guess it wouldn't have to be an .ISO, but I am hoping for some way to get
my DVDs to my television with the same ease I get my CDs to my stereo. A
digital jukebox with simple interface is the end goal.

I currently use PS3 Media Server to stream to my PS3, and it handles ISO
files, but simply gives me a directory structure. I  want to select a file
and get to the DVD menu. It's a messy bunch of "title01" type files that
way, and I assume that it would be equally messy in a directory structure.

If the RPi isn't the best option here, I can change my thinking to another
device. I have other uses I can re-purpose the RPi to do, but with it's
excellent graphics capabilities, I was thinking it'd be ideal. I just
figured it'd work out of the box since XBMC on my Win7 machine works
without any configuring (I just installed it now to check).
--
Dave



On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> 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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