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DVD ISO Playback
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I found a solution....Boxee.
From Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee):
"Video playback in detail
Boxee video-playback uses an in-house video-player 'core' originally developed by the XBMC developers as a DVD-player for DVD-Video movies, including the support of DVD-menus, (based on the open source and free libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav). This video-player 'core' support all the FFmpeg codecs, and in addition the MPEG-2 video codec, and the audio codecs DTS and AC3 (based on the open source code libraries: libmpeg2, libdca/libdts, and liba52/libac3 respectively). One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly parse and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images, DVD-Video movies that are stored as DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) files on a harddrive or network-share, and also ISO and IMG DVD-images directly from RAR and ZIP archives. In addition to this, the developers of this video-player 'core' also claim that it offers better quality upscaling of all DVD-Video movies when outputing them to a 720p, 1080i or 1080p HDTV resolutions than what most high-definition television set's own native function for upscaling/upconverting video offers. Another interesting aspect is how Boxee manages to play Flash content on sites such as YouTube and Hulu. Boxee seems to be shipping with a binary-only program called as bxflplayer, which seems to load Adobe's proprietary flash plugin. This program communicates with the main Boxee process via shared memory and it renders the video onto screen. By using this approach, it is possible for Boxee to not only play arbitrary Flash content, it is also possible to control the player using remote controls and other input devices that are more suitable to laid back watching."
Is it better to install XBMC? Is Boxee buggy on the Apple TV? Being in Alpha I would think it would be. XBMC looks like it does everything Boxee does, just without the social networking part and has been around a while, so maybe not as buggy.
