[GRLUG] Raspberry Pi Question

[megadave]

I would suggest vlc, for playing iso images of DVD's.

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:56 AM, David Wise <davidn.wise at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> --
>> john-thomas
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