Watching DVD images without mounting? (1 Viewer)

[guppi]

I'm not sure if this is the right category for this question, but anyhow...

Is there a way to watch dvd images without mounting them with daemon tools?

The way I've got everything setup right now is giving me headaches. Basically I have all my dvd-images on another computer and I mount these through a network with media portal and daemon tools. I access these dvd-images with mediaportal through "My Videos". Anyways this all works great till the point where I set the HTPC into hibernation and later turns it back on, then when I enter "My Videos", media portal hangs, because of the mounted dvd-image. I don't know why, because I am waiting till the network is back on before accessing "My Videos". And there's no problems accessing the mounted image outside media portal.

Anyways, the best solution I can think of is if this whole mounting procedure could be removed and I could just watch the dvd-image anyways.

I can do this by using an external player such as VLC which directly plays any dvd-images without the need of mounting them. But I don't want to use an external player :/ Because then I need to write a new remote plugin for my remote heh...

 

[mrkaras]

no I don't think so

 

[and-81]

out of interest, what remote do you have?

 

[NickName]

I & many others watch all of our ripped DVDs without mounting but they are not 'images', just files & folders...
It may be worth extracting them to folders as it works a treat

 

[mrkaras]

I will agree with that, you can watch them if they are the disc contents in a folder rather than an ISO.

 

[Ynot]

just thought I'd add,
winrar can read .iso images (treats them as an archive) and so you can extract them to folders