With Cyberlink’s PowerDVD Ultra no longer playing hard drive based HD movies from ripped HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs, the only way to watch such movies is to “mount” an ISO image of the disc and then watch it using PowerDVD. Not an easy thing to do while in Vista Media Center. MyMounter, brought to you by the makers of MyTV, is a plugin designed to streamline the ISO process with VMC.
In order to use MyMounter, you need the following programs: Daemon Tools, AnyDVD HD, and Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra. Those programs let you rip, mount an image, and watch the movie. Basically, MyMounter scans your files looking for ISO images. Through VMC, you decide which one you want to load. As has always been the case, PowerDVD will be loaded outside of VMC, returning to the VMC interface once the movie is done.
Mounting ISO images has always been popular for gamers, allowing someone to play a game without an actual disc. I would love to see a MyMovies equivalent for video games using MyMounter.
I have not had time to test out this plugin. Once I have, I will post my thoughts.
October 20th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Hi,
Recently with Windows 7, Daemon tools and older plug-ins won’t play without modifications. I have just developed a freeware plug-in for Media Center with the following features:
- Mounts ISO disc images from DVD or BluRay
- Plays media in containers like AVI and Matroska (MKV)
- Plays DVDs in folder format
- Uses film cover and media metadata information in open XML format
- Allow folder hierarchy to organize media
Please refer to https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcjukebox/ for additional information!