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Old 04-09-2007   #1 (permalink)
jon


 
 

media center playing iso's

Hi, I know DVD iso's are an iffy area on legality but is it possable to have
windows media center play dvd iso's.

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Old 04-10-2007   #2 (permalink)
Just FYI


 
 

Re: media center playing iso's

ISO's aren't "iffy" legally, it's just a file format. But you can only do
one thing with them - burn a DVD (or CD). You can't "play" an iso image. You
have to burn a DVD from the image first. Then you can play the DVD.

"jon" <jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4AC08504-4A83-475B-8F97-72448214D55F@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I know DVD iso's are an iffy area on legality but is it possable to
> have
> windows media center play dvd iso's.



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Old 04-10-2007   #3 (permalink)
jon


 
 

Re: media center playing iso's

Well not with a functionialy like this software
http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html built in.

"Just FYI" wrote:

> ISO's aren't "iffy" legally, it's just a file format. But you can only do
> one thing with them - burn a DVD (or CD). You can't "play" an iso image. You
> have to burn a DVD from the image first. Then you can play the DVD.
>
> "jon" <jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4AC08504-4A83-475B-8F97-72448214D55F@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I know DVD iso's are an iffy area on legality but is it possable to
> > have
> > windows media center play dvd iso's.

>
>
>

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