ISO support.
I am still confused why .ISO is not supported. This seems so basic for a “Media Server.”
Thanks.
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Thanks for the replies – I understand now the place ISO has in the larger picture. Much appreciated…
TC
Probably because ISOs are a very very tiny part of the media that is normally on a server.
A few people try to put ISOs directly on their servers but most people convert those to some other container/format as generally the resulting file is smaller and any loss of quality is not really noticeable to most people.
Personally I used to use mp4 but I now use mkvs. My largest file is only a little over 4.5g and most are in the 1-2g range. I cannot see any difference from the original but I know others can. Every person has an ideal threshold and most should find their preferred resolution and stick with that.
As far as the additional stuff that exist in ISO files you can pretty easily extract them and make them extras for movies.
I do not think any time or effort should be spent on ISO support. There are actual real problems that should come WAY before ISO support.
Plex has never supported disk formats and as per that article if looks like they never will.
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As pointed out by @WilhelmStroker, Plex have been giving their argument as for why they won’t support ISO disc images for years in the support article linked above.
There’s been similar requests on that exact matter which have been rejected in the past. The same will go for this one.
@BeattifulCadaver : Plex will also deal with raw rips of discs that have not been optimized or transcoded (leaving the media itself untouched compared to the version encoded on the disc) . The main argument here is the separate disc navigation — personally I’m not missing forced ads during the disc being loaded, unwanted trailers or prerolls (beyond what I’ve configured my server to show)…
2022 clean-up: rejected
