If there are small children in the house, physical media is endangered. ( I'm just happy that there aren't VCRs to hold peanut butter & jelly sandwiches anymore. ) Needless to say, I can see why Mike has made ISOs from his DVDs. Let me second the suggestion of Handbrake. Leave the ISOs where they are & set up a HandBrakeCLI process with the iPad or iPhone preset to batch convert the collection. The resulting MP4 or m4v files can be natively consumed by all modern devices. Plus, as a nice side effect, this will strip out all of the enforced previews /advertisements that so many DVDs have these days. It's a better watching experience, especially with kids who are eager to get to the desired content. Thomas On Thursday, November 26, 2015, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > DVD to ISO and DVDshrink was a popular application 10 years ago… > > > > > On Nov 26, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Odd not old > > > > > > -------- Original message -------- > > From: Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com <javascript:;>> > > Date: 11/25/2015 8:06 PM (GMT-06:00) > > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org <javascript:;>> > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server > > > > How did you come to have a collection of video files in .iso format? > Seems like an old choice to make intentionally. > > > > > > -------- Original message -------- > > From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com <javascript:;>> > > Date: 11/25/2015 11:11 AM (GMT-06:00) > > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org <javascript:;>> > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server > > > > Thanks to all for the help. I think all of the ideas were good except > > that they don't happen to work with ISO files and almost everything I > have > > is in ISO files! > > > > Here's some more info on what I've tried: > > > > It looks like VLC for iOS will be supporting smb protocol soon: > > > > > https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=128455&p=431357&hilit=ios+smb#p431357 > > > > Meanwhile, I thought I might be able to buy an app that would make this > > work. So far, it hasn't worked. I installed this on the iPad: > > > > > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8 > > > > Now I can see the ISO files on the Linux servers SAMBA share, but the > next > > problem is that the .iso file type isn't associated with VLC, so I can't > > click on it to load it into VLC as if it were a local file. The > > FileBrowser does offer the option to stream the file to a program. If I > > do that, and stream to VLC, it will open an http connection -- I guess > the > > FileBrowswer becomes a web server -- but that doesn't work. VLC can't do > > streaming of ISO files by http, apparently -- I tried that already using > > Apache on the server. > > > > So nothing is working and maybe nothing can work until VLC supports smb, > > which is supposed to happen within a month from now. We'll see about > > that! > > > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <javascript:;> > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <javascript:;> > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <javascript:;> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20151127/c621c051/attachment-0001.html>