MainLobby / DVDLobby Question

[Pjohnson]

Here's my setup..

IBM Server running MainLobby / DVDLobby / MLServer
Installed ZoomPlayer (free version)
Installed Daemon Tools

Ripped a couple movies in ISO format stored locally

Configured DVDLobby Plugin with movie location/cover etc..

ZoomPlayer refuses to play an ISO movie..even if I directly try to play the movie that Daemon Tools has mounted from ZoomPlayer. I get a black screen and no indication the movie is playing or otherwise.

My question is..

Can ZoomPlayer basic really play an ISO movie that's mounted in Daemon Tools?

Am I missing a DVD decoder/Codec or something?

Baffled...

 

[electron]

a DVD ISO mounted through Daemon Tools would show as a second DVD drive in your system, so all ZoomPlayer sees is a disc in the drive, it doesn't know it's an ISO (and the ISO is an exact copy of the disc). The only thing I can think of is that it is looking at the wrong drive if you also have a physical DVD drive (So 2 show up in the system when the ISO is mounted). Try playing the mounted iso through Windows Media Player.

 

[Pjohnson]

Daemon Tools is Drive Z: for me.. I told ZoomPlayer to use Drive Z: and it tries but nothing. I installed WinDVD 6 on my MainLobby server..it plays the mounted movie nicely.

So with the reminder tip about an ISO really just being a tricked DVD drive in Daemon Tools, I tel ZoomPlayer to open Drive Z:...it shows a black screen and loads the ZoomPlayer website and shows me ZoomPlayer Pro.. HAHAHA!!!

Can MainLobby / DVDLobby use WinDVD instead of ZoomPlayer?

 

[DavidL]

pjohnson, you can use windvd codecs with zoom to play your iso. you have a zoom setup issue. Any reason why you aren't ripping to vob and ifo files using dvdshrink.org? Then you don't need daemon tools.

DVDLobby can't natively use windvd player, at least I haven't read anyone using it and I haven't researched if windvd player can be externally controlled via a comman dline commnad or other.

 

[Pjohnson]

It looks likeit's just not using any codecs, but I'll just upgrade Zoom PLayer to the Pro version today since it's the only version that supports DVD playback anyway. I use ISO's because thats the method I prefer since it contains the complete DVD incase I want to rercreate the DVD. The only annoying thing is the previews, but once I get this working I'll try to hack that junk out of the ISO image.

 

[electron]

You should be able to skip those previews by not selecting them in DVD Decrypter when creating the ISO.