How do I do this on iPad....?

[chris650]

An iso file is just a mirror image of your DVD. Since iPads don't play DVDs, they don't play iso files either. And apps like Air Video wouldn't stream them either, since iso files aren't video files. I don't know how it works on a Mac, but on a PC you can mount iso files as a virtual DVD drive and assign them drive letters. If you can do this on a Mac, then you could point Air Video to the virtual drive and it might stream from the virtual drive. But you'd have to mount your iso file first.

On the other hand, I don't know what you did to create your iso files, but if they are exact copies of the original DVDs, then transcoding them to iTunes format video should give you the same quality videos as you would have gotten if you had transcoded them from the original DVDs.

the whole idea is that i don't want to spend time to transcode...i have thousands of iso files...

On Mac, i only need to click on an ISO file, it plays natively.. with "DVD Player"

 

[sapporobaby]

the whole idea is that i don't want to spend time to transcode...i have thousands of iso files...

On Mac, i only need to click on an ISO file, it plays natively.. with "DVD Player"

Come on dude. This is starting to get a bit whiny. We did some of the work for and told where to start. If you don't like the outcome or answers then I don't know what else to offer you. Maybe you should just stick to carrying a computer around and forget the iPad.

 

[Night Spring]

the whole idea is that i don't want to spend time to transcode...i have thousands of iso files...

On Mac, i only need to click on an ISO file, it plays natively.. with "DVD Player"

Well, sorry about that, but like I said, asking iPad to play an iso file is the same as asking it to play a DVD. The iPad is many things, but it isn't a computer. There are lots of thing a computer can do the iPad can't do, and unfortunately, this is one of them.

 

[chris650]

Well, sorry about that, but like I said, asking iPad to play an iso file is the same as asking it to play a DVD. The iPad is many things, but it isn't a computer. There are lots of thing a computer can do the iPad can't do, and unfortunately, this is one of them.

Well, there are so many people on InMethod (airvideo's website) requesting iso support. Check out yourself.

 

[sapporobaby]

Well, there are so many people on InMethod (airvideo's website) requesting iso support. Check out yourself.

Then you need to be over there dude. We've done all we can but you still come back time and time again. What would you like us to do? For the most part, you have said what you don't want to do while seeming that you aren't willing to do anything.

 

[mklnk]

Well, there are so many people on InMethod (airvideo's website) requesting iso support. Check out yourself.

So you can either wait for airvideo to support ISOs, or start transcoding.

There's nothing else to say.

 

[chris650]

Ok, thanks for all the info. I think I have a grip on what's available and what's not, and what my options are.

Now, may I ask all of you for a bit more info, before I decide on what route I am going to take.

1. As I have always managed my video by keeping a completely native ISO file, I don't know much about various file formats and resolutions, e.g. avi, mpeg, h264..... What would be the highest resolution and best format to keep? Since I will have to convert/transcode my ISO to another format, I might as well keep the highest fidelity possible.

2. Once I decide on what file format I am going to convert/transcode to, could anyone here suggest a simple program to do BATCH conversion for my hundreds of DVD ISO files?