My Video - Playing iso's with PowerDVD

[Kindred359]

Prior to 96.12 I had my system setup as follows:
1) Use my videos to browse to the directory where iso's are stored
2) Click "ok" on an iso
3) Daemon tools mounts the image
4) PowerDVD is launched and begins playing.

After the upgrade, I can no longer get this to work. If I add "iso" as a file type in the config app for my videos clicking on the iso will launch power dvd, but the iso will not be mounted. If I don't have iso listed as a file type clicking on the iso causes Daemon tools to mount it, but GBPVR uses the internal player. I need to use PowerDVD because I cannot get my PVR-150 remote to work correctly with the internal player, but it works perfectly with PowerDVD. Does anyone have an idea as to why I can no longer get my videos to play the iso file back using powerDVD?

[reven]

do NOT add iso to the file extension list, iso files are added seperately as a different type of object. if you add iso to the extension list it wont reach this code and add all ISO images as video files.

and there is no way, currently, to launch a iso to an external player.

[Kindred359]

Thanks for the quick reply Reven. I was pretty sure I was not supposed to add iso as a file type - but as I said, if I don't then it plays back using the internal player. I know I had this working before and for the life of me I can't remember how. I wonder if a batch file would work. Something along the lines of:

If (extension == iso) then
{
daemontools -mount [filneame] G:
powerDvD G:
}
else
{
gbpvr [filename]
}

[Kindred359]

Actually, it's more like this:

@echo off
set myfile=%1
set myext=%~x1
if /I %myext%==.iso goto ISO
goto OTHER
:ISO
c:\Progra~1\DAEMON~1\daemon.exe -mount 0,%myfile%
c:\Progra~1\Cyberlink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe G:
goto END
:OTHER
c:\Progra~1\Cyberlink\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe %myfile%
:END

I have this as isoplay.bat in my gbpvr directory. I added ISO as a file type to myvideos and set isoplay.bat as my external player. I set this up so long ago I completely forgot about it, and I lost the code when I wiped my gbpvr dir and did a clean install.

[reven]

in the next version i rearranged the order for isos so they wont be added a "video files", so this "hack" wont work in my vids 5.

[observer_11]

I have some questions on this topic...

I am assuming this batch file approach would work for BIN/CUE videos?

Why do you use an external video player to play the mounted ISO, couldn't the GBPVR internal player handle it?

What are the ISO options in the config utility for?

Has anyone considered incorporating the ability to play image files directly in GBPVR?

As a side note I used to be able to play BIN/CUE and ISO video files directly in ZoomPlayer and Divx Player without mounting or any batch files . .. just right click the image file and select play with ZoomPlayer. Ever since I re-installed WinXP I lost this functionality and can't for the life of me figure out how to do this anymore...

[reven]

in my vids 5 if set it up so my vids will mount a iso image using daemon (if setup in the gbpvr config) and allow you to use the "External DVD Players" to play the dvd.

[Kindred359]

Awesome Reven - thanks. I would rather not have to "hack" it as you say.

Why do you use an external video player to play the mounted ISO, couldn't the GBPVR internal player handle it?

I use PowerDVD because my remote (Hauppauge PVR-150) does not work with the internal player when playing back isos.