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<blockquote data-quote="SharkValley" data-source="post: 699060" data-attributes="member: 109749">Grandpa was coming to visit over Christmas and I bought a Bing Crosby DVD set for him to watch.I successfully added the .iso files to my Windows Vista based MediaPortal PC, but I ran into a problem.Some of the discs contained two movies in a single .isoI searched the forum and couldn't find a way to have two Moving Pictures listing entries for a single .iso file.I considered just duplicating the .iso file with two different file names, but that would be a waste of hard drive space.The solution I found was to create a hard-link!!!!!Hard-links work on NTFS formatted hard drives and allow you to &quot;fool&quot; the system into thinking you have two (or more) files with different names that are in fact all the same file and therefore don't take up extra space.For example, one DVD had both &quot;Waikiki Wedding&quot; and &quot;Double or Nothing&quot;.I first ripped my DVD to &quot;Waikiki Wedding (1937).iso&quot;, then created a hard-link using the mklink command in the cmd tool (Note: You must run the cmd tool as an administrator to create a hard-link).mklink /H &quot;Double Or Nothing (1937).iso&quot; &quot;Waikiki Wedding (1937).iso&quot;I now have two entries in Moving Pictures that launch the same DVD iso image.Just thought I'd share my solution in case others have the same problem (or if others have another solution).Thanks,SharkValley</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SharkValley, post: 699060, member: 109749"] Grandpa was coming to visit over Christmas and I bought a Bing Crosby DVD set for him to watch. I successfully added the .iso files to my Windows Vista based MediaPortal PC, but I ran into a problem. Some of the discs contained two movies in a single .iso I searched the forum and couldn't find a way to have two Moving Pictures listing entries for a single .iso file. I considered just duplicating the .iso file with two different file names, but that would be a waste of hard drive space. The solution I found was to create a hard-link!!!!! Hard-links work on NTFS formatted hard drives and allow you to "fool" the system into thinking you have two (or more) files with different names that are in fact all the same file and therefore don't take up extra space. For example, one DVD had both "Waikiki Wedding" and "Double or Nothing". I first ripped my DVD to "Waikiki Wedding (1937).iso", then created a hard-link using the [FONT="Courier New"]mklink[/FONT] command in the cmd tool (Note: You must run the cmd tool as an administrator to create a hard-link). [FONT="Courier New"]mklink /H "Double Or Nothing (1937).iso" "Waikiki Wedding (1937).iso"[/FONT] I now have two entries in Moving Pictures that launch the same DVD iso image. Just thought I'd share my solution in case others have the same problem (or if others have another solution). Thanks, SharkValley [/QUOTE]

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