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. )<div><br></div><div>Needless to say, I can see why Mike has made ISOs from his DVDs. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><div><span></span><br><br>On Thursday, November 26, 2015, Ryan Coleman <<a href="mailto:ryan.coleman@cwis.biz">ryan.coleman@cwis.biz</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">DVD to ISO and DVDshrink was a popular application 10 years ago…<br>
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> On Nov 26, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Justin Krejci <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'jus@krytosvirus.com')">jus@krytosvirus.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Odd not old<br>
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> -------- Original message --------<br>
> From: Justin Krejci <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'jus@krytosvirus.com')">jus@krytosvirus.com</a>><br>
> Date: 11/25/2015 8:06 PM (GMT-06:00)<br>
> To: TCLUG Mailing List <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'tclug-list@mn-linux.org')">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server<br>
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> How did you come to have a collection of video files in .iso format? Seems like an old choice to make intentionally.<br>
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> -------- Original message --------<br>
> From: Mike Miller <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'mbmiller+l@gmail.com')">mbmiller+l@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Date: 11/25/2015 11:11 AM (GMT-06:00)<br>
> To: TCLUG Mailing List <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'tclug-list@mn-linux.org')">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server<br>
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> Thanks to all for the help. I think all of the ideas were good except<br>
> that they don't happen to work with ISO files and almost everything I have<br>
> is in ISO files!<br>
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> Here's some more info on what I've tried:<br>
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> It looks like VLC for iOS will be supporting smb protocol soon:<br>
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> <a href="https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=128455&p=431357&hilit=ios+smb#p431357" target="_blank">https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=128455&p=431357&hilit=ios+smb#p431357</a><br>
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> Meanwhile, I thought I might be able to buy an app that would make this<br>
> work. So far, it hasn't worked. I installed this on the iPad:<br>
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> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8</a><br>
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> Now I can see the ISO files on the Linux servers SAMBA share, but the next<br>
> problem is that the .iso file type isn't associated with VLC, so I can't<br>
> click on it to load it into VLC as if it were a local file. The<br>
> FileBrowser does offer the option to stream the file to a program. If I<br>
> do that, and stream to VLC, it will open an http connection -- I guess the<br>
> FileBrowswer becomes a web server -- but that doesn't work. VLC can't do<br>
> streaming of ISO files by http, apparently -- I tried that already using<br>
> Apache on the server.<br>
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> So nothing is working and maybe nothing can work until VLC supports smb,<br>
> which is supposed to happen within a month from now. We'll see about<br>
> that!<br>
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> Mike<br>
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