So I’ve been annoyed for a while that Plex (Emby, Jellyfin., et al) do not support BluRay ISOs. While it makes sense that they can’t support menus (that doesn’t make sense in the context of them), it doesn’t make sense that they can’t support exporting individual playlists. To prove how easy it is…

conceptually, the same process should be doable for DVDs, but their programs are a bit more complicated than bluray playlists (and/or libdvdread does less handholding of providing a straight seekable stream) so I’ll need to investigate that, but blurays were my my desire so what I did first.

OP - I agree with all 3 of your reasons. I was surprised and annoyed that Plex is not able to play ISOs, given that it has been around for a long time and so many people have asked for it. I wonder how much of people’s time and electricity has been spent converting media so that it is compatible wi…

my POC is proving relatively stable. Its not perfect. I have a lot of ISOs and not everything streams well (not 100% sure why, but sometimes things that should be able to be direct played or streamed, throw errors, but if I force transcoding (i.e. by selecting a subtitle) it plays fine. some thin…

Kodi seems to deal with ISO almost seamlessly from my experience. Couldn’t the same ISO support be implemented in PLEX? I really can’t be bothered converting 100’s of ISO files.

Not really. Kodi has 2 ways of dealing with BluRays. It can show the menu (for both DVDs and non java menu blurays on all platforms and for java based blurays on platforms that have a jvm, so that basically limits java menus to linux, windows and mac. you don’t get java menus on any android, io…

If you want to watch your DVDs and Blu-ray’s without converting them, just use the Infuse app for iOS and AppleTV. [image] Infuse 6 - An elegant video player Ignite your video content with Infuse – the beautiful way to watch almost any video format on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. No n…

[image] POC: Enabling Plex to Play BluRay ISOs Apps & Tools If you want to watch your DVDs and Blu-ray’s without converting them, just use the Infuse app for iOS and AppleTV. I’ve got a huge library of both DVD & BD movies; been collecting them for over 15 years. I no …

It doesn’t (at least fully) support bluray menus and hence suffers from the normal problem. This solution (heck, infuse could run with the samw stub file concept) helps solve that. But in practice infuse is no different than kodi for that.

this is awesome! i was experimenting with emby and strm files to see if i could have an strm point to a playlist. did not work. then i tried to have the strm reference my media center server jriver) which supports full bluray folder and iso backups with full menu support. it will transcode f…

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BigWheel April 20, 2020, 6:19pm 6

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Use Internal playlist as a mean to support ISOs (and their folder structures)

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POC: Enabling Plex to Play BluRay ISOs

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