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[Imatation]

Hello,

I have a concert DVD collection that I want to burn to a HD and play with MC18. I would like MC to list them in its library just like it would audio files and when I open them have it start with the DVD’s menu just like it would if run from a DVD player.

The only way I’ve been able to do this so far is to rip the DVD to an .ISO file, then mount it assigning a virtual drive letter to it. 
Is there a way to get MC to mount an .ISO when opened from within the library or is there another way to do this?

I was also able to rip the DVD to a single file MP4, and then use Nero to manually recreate the chapters. Then I can use MC to open the .bdmv file and then advance through the chapters like it would through an album clicking next. But unless I can get MC to make a library of .bdmv files, that’s not going to help me.

Any thoughts?

[user38]

Imatation
      I am having trouble understanding your problem.  If you rip a DVD to your hard drive and import that folder into Media Center MC will point to the VIDEO_TS.IFO file (I think).  If the DVD is authored such that it starts with the DVD menu then the DVD menu will start when you select the file.  (You can confirm this yourself by inserting a DVD into your disc drive, manually navigating to the VIDEO_TS folder on the disc, select VIDEO_TS.IFO and open it with MC.)

Media Center has no problems with DVDs and there is no need to mount them on a virtual drive.

However, I suspect your problem is with blu ray discs.   MC cannot open blu ray menus.  I understand there are some licensing issues.  While any open source media player will open a DVD menu only the "premium" players (like that piece of crap PowerDVD) can deal with blu ray menus.

There is a solution.   You can rip the blu ray with MakeMKV (http://www.makemkv.com/download/) and then convert the separate chapters to mp4 files with Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php).  If you rename the mp4 files to the track numbers and chapter names you can place all the chapter files into an "album" in MC and you can play it that way.  That's what I ended up doing with my concert blu ray discs. 

[Imatation]

Forgive me I’m new to using MC for anything but music so I'm not sure what it does and doesn't do. For some reason it won’t let me see the menu it just starts playing copied DVD’s and there’s no right click option for menu. It’s also crashing allot when I put a DVD in the drive, so I’m going to reinstall MC18 and try a different program for ripping and see if that helps.

Thanks.