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<blockquote data-quote="nvkris" data-source="post: 363736" data-attributes="member: 87439">Hi Tony,&nbsp;&nbsp; Thank you for your reply. Yes I have demontools installed on my PC, BUT I did not set it up in mediaportal. That is because as per my understanding- DaemonTools mounts an ISO as a DVD on your PC. Then you can use a DVD player (vlc, powerDVD, etc) to play the mounted DVD.- However, since VLC plays iso's straightout, just like any file (and since mounting takes a couple seconds), I do not use daemontools to mount, but have added .iso as a video extension and have got mediaportal to open it just as another video file, without mounting. Both VLC as well as the mediaportal internal player can play iso files.Just to clarify. This approach works fine (whether vlc or internal player) when I am in the 'shares' view of My Videos. It is only when I switch views to 'genre' or 'actors' that the iso's do not play. If I switch back to shares view, it plays again!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nvkris, post: 363736, member: 87439"] Hi Tony, Thank you for your reply. Yes I have demontools installed on my PC, BUT I did not set it up in mediaportal. That is because as per my understanding - DaemonTools mounts an ISO as a DVD on your PC. Then you can use a DVD player (vlc, powerDVD, etc) to play the mounted DVD. - However, since VLC plays iso's straightout, just like any file (and since mounting takes a couple seconds), I do not use daemontools to mount, but have added .iso as a video extension and have got mediaportal to open it just as another video file, without mounting. Both VLC as well as the mediaportal internal player can play iso files. Just to clarify. This approach works fine (whether vlc or internal player) when I am in the 'shares' view of My Videos. It is only when I switch views to 'genre' or 'actors' that the iso's do not play. If I switch back to shares view, it plays again! [/QUOTE]

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