andyg;623415 Wrote: 
> Hmm ISO files would require transcoding, you can't stream an ISO over
> the network to something like Revue.  Video transcoding is doable but
> not something we're looking at for the initial version.
> 
> Also with ISO you'd have to transcode just the primary video/audio
> stream right? You'd lose DVD menus and such. This would be pretty
> interesting though...

Mount ISO at server and stream content.  I guess the menu structure
could be sent although with DVD ISOs most people aren't too bothered
about the annoying menu systems as long as content is navagable.

You would need to give people the choice of audio stream.  I like to
watch my films with original soundtrack and subtitles... doch my
mandarin is worse than my non-existant german.

However there is HiDef content and it doesn't tend to stream well over
wireless connections.  HiDef ISOs weren't dealt with by most products
when I last looked.

There are I believe tools that produce rips in ISO format with just the
video in it.  I have never used these tools but from looking at other
product forums (like the WDHDTV one) I recollec this as being a format
some people use.

Me...  I like the convenience of taking content I own and accessing it
via a digital  Juke Box.  I like having physical originals as backups. 
I find the chains of the DRM and Physical worlds inconvenient.  The
pre-DRM CD is a good model for video but not one that content producers
like.


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fairyliquidizer

"O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion."
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