[Finished] Built in ISO player (1 Viewer)

[mats_o]

One improvement I would like to see is an internal ISO-parser so that we don't need an external ISO mounter.
XBMC does this but I dont know how.

If this is to hard we at least should support the built in automounter in Win8 (I do not use W8 myself)

Edit: This change should give a better user experiance since we remove one external component.
One thing less to install, uppgrade and that can break

 

[morpheus_xx]

MP2 does already have inbuilt support for accessing ISO images and also ZIP archives directly. You can even have a chain of ZIP->ISO->.MKV or something like this

 

[mats_o]

I guess we can change that one to done then
I can't connect to my media store currently since it seems like it seems like MP2 requires it to be browsable.

Currently it requires another username\pw to allow connections

 

[Vasilich]

i know that it is offtopic here, but do you think is it possible to use MP2 code for support ISO in MP1?

 

[chefkoch]

i know that it is offtopic here, but do you think is it possible to use MP2 code for support ISO in MP1?

Not sure about that, but it's definitely something for the MP1 forums.
Nevertheless here is the code MP2 uses for the IsoProvider & ZipProvider.

 

[MJGraf]

Actually I don't think so - unless MP1 also uses dokan, which I think is not an ideal solution.
MP2 uses DiscUtils to access the iso file. But then you need a way to present the content of the ISO to the DS-filter as a file system. This is where MP2 uses dokan. There was a thread in the MP2 forums lately (started by offbyone, I think) where a discussion started how to get rid of dokan. If I recall correctly there are two problems about this:
1. we would need a filter that accepts a stream instead of a file as Input. That's probably the easier part, but only works for situations, in which there is a single file you want to Play (e.g. an MKV inside a ZIP-File).
2. For DVD and Bluray-ISOs there is another problem: the filter expects a whole directory structure, which is contained in the ISO. Therefore, just providing a stream as source is not enough, because a stream can't provide access to a whole directory.
But nevertheless, any idea in that respect is very welcome, because also in MP2 it would be nice to get rid of dokan...
Sorry for being a bit of topic...
Michael

 

[mats_o]

Do we know how XBMC does it?

 

[MJGraf]

Mi mats_o,
no, I have no clue about XBMC, sorry.
But I had a look into DiscUtils to see if there is something in it, we could use as a dokan replacement for MP2 (and the result then maybe also for MP1).
First I thought, there is a solution, because there is a Utility bundled with DiscUtils, which enables you to Mount e.g. ISO-files as drives in a PowerShell window. Then, however, I realized that a PowerShell drive (i.e. a PSDrive) is not a "real" Windows drive and only visible within PowerShell.
Without having a clue about DS source filters, I would assume that such PSDrive is not enough for the filter to connect to it - @morpheus_xx can you shed some light on this?
As a result, we still Need some Kind of kernel mode Driver to simulate a Windows drive - which is dokan at the Moment.
I found, hower, one more possible solution in some other Forum. The idea is to have an inbuilt SMB/CIFS Server to which the OS then attaches as a Network drive. But this imho is a huge Overkill...
Michael

 

[mats_o]

it's a very very long time since i played with XBMC but if i remember it right they do use Mplayer as their media engine so it might be in there we should look for a way to maount iso:s directly without a need for a virtual drive or so