[mythtv-users] MythVideo Try to play .iso, plays DVD instead

[Ian Forde]

On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 18:06 -0800, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 14:25 -0800, Robert McNamara wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Erik Mellquist
> > <erik.mellquist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've been running Mythbuntu for a few months now and have never been able to
> > > get .iso's to play using the Internal player.  I just noticed today that
> > > when I try to play any .iso file, myth attempts to play a DVD.  Has anybody
> > > else seen this behavior?
> > 
> > It doesn't attempt to play a DVD, you're misunderstanding the log
> > message.  You're trying to play an encrypted ISO in a Storage Group,
> > or you're trying to play any ISO on a storage group on a version of
> > MythTV less than .24.
> > 
> > Options are upgrade to .24 (in which case ISOs in Storage Groups will
> > work for you assuming your ISOs are unencrypted) or upgrade to .24 AND
> > decrypt your ISOs.
> 
> After having searched in vain in the list archives for a method to
> decrypt DVDs, I found some simple web pages describing how to do so.  I
> then wrapped a script around it and have pasted it below.  It's rough,
> cheap, and dirty.  And it runs as root.  All you need to do is set the
> MAINDIR, MOUNTPOINT, and WORKDIR variables so something you like, then
> copy your isos into MAINDIR/isos.  Then you should be able to run the
> script.  Note that as I've set them, I'm using different drives for the
> isos versus the vobcopy work.  This gets me a performance boost.  Also,
> I'm not working with my NAS copies because you'll want to *test* the new
> isos before replacing your existing ones... ;)

Oh - and the script has bugs... apparently my continuous mucking about
with it broke it.  So, folks, just use it as an (almost functional)
example of how one can get this task done...

	-I