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Which community made solution is better than my videos? Why do you think so?

I have ripped my DVDs to ISOs and found annoying problems with the Media Portal implementation. It won't properly allow selection from a "stacked" list then mount the selected ISO. The code creates a fake playlist for ISO selection, and then passes the selected ISO directly to the decoder ... which only works if you have a specialized decoder like the one in Nero showtime installed on your HTPC. It should have checked to see if the file needed to be mounted and that daemon tools was enabled and then mounted the ISO. There are other logic problems in this code too when using ISOs.
Why shouldn't the problem exist? I don't follow. Do you mean that there are workarounds to the issues described above?

Media Portal is one of the best HTPC front ends I've used. The developers deserve a lot of respect. The software is still far from being usable when all you want to do is let your family use your HTPC without much fuss. You end up having to become a developer or IT expert to get the last 20%.

<blockquote data-quote="rjburke377" data-source="post: 280431" data-attributes="member: 70884">Which community made solution is better than my videos? Why do you think so? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />I have ripped my DVDs to ISOs and found annoying problems with the Media Portal implementation. It won't properly allow selection from a &quot;stacked&quot; list then mount the selected ISO. The code creates a fake playlist for ISO selection, and then passes the selected ISO directly to the decoder ... which only works if you have a specialized decoder like the one in Nero showtime installed on your HTPC. It should have checked to see if the file needed to be mounted and that daemon tools was enabled and then mounted the ISO. There are other logic problems in this code too when using ISOs.Why shouldn't the problem exist? I don't follow. Do you mean that there are workarounds to the issues described above?Media Portal is one of the best HTPC front ends I've used. The developers deserve a lot of respect. The software is still far from being usable when all you want to do is let your family use your HTPC without much fuss. You end up having to become a developer or IT expert to get the last 20%.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rjburke377, post: 280431, member: 70884"] Which community made solution is better than my videos? Why do you think so? :thx: I have ripped my DVDs to ISOs and found annoying problems with the Media Portal implementation. It won't properly allow selection from a "stacked" list then mount the selected ISO. The code creates a fake playlist for ISO selection, and then passes the selected ISO directly to the decoder ... which only works if you have a specialized decoder like the one in Nero showtime installed on your HTPC. It should have checked to see if the file needed to be mounted and that daemon tools was enabled and then mounted the ISO. There are other logic problems in this code too when using ISOs. Why shouldn't the problem exist? I don't follow. Do you mean that there are workarounds to the issues described above? Media Portal is one of the best HTPC front ends I've used. The developers deserve a lot of respect. The software is still far from being usable when all you want to do is let your family use your HTPC without much fuss. You end up having to become a developer or IT expert to get the last 20%. [/QUOTE]