Using Treason's file browser to mount iso DVDs

[Zonared]

I was wondering if I could reconfigure the awesome file browser to mount iso DVD images, which inturn will automatically start playing in MCE.

All you need is to allow .iso file types and make 'file browser' open a virtual drive program, could be anyone like Alcohol 120% or a deamon mounter whichever works for me.

I tried changing 'file browser' to display .iso but trying to open in MCE results in file type invalid video format or something.

Any ideas, thanks.

[dgaust]

I haven't used treason's app, but for mounting iso's you could use mymounter

It even allows DVD covers to be displayed (if they are given the same filename as the iso)

edit: Oops, sorry I thought this was in the vista section. This is a vista only plugin.

[Zonared]

I forgot to add that I have tried 'My Movies' which I could not get to work properly and was not very intuitive, at least for my needs anyway. All I would like is the ability to mount iso files within the MCE interface via the remote not keyboard and mouse.

Ultimately I would like to have an MCE interface for DVDshrink that would be cool, but I would be very happy with just mounting iso's.

[Zonared]

Hello everyone,

For those of you running MCE2005 like me, cause I didnt like Vista's wierdness I have modified the file browser to automatically mount iso images. Hope you dont mind Treason.

Process is as follows:
-Install the file browser as normal
-Edit the browser.html file normally located in C:\Program Files\MCE File Browser
-Somewhere in the doSelect function add

if (tester == "iso")
{

tester = oCurFocus.id;
tester = tester.substring(3, tester.length);
tester = unescape(tester);
checkParentalControls(4); strUrl = tester;

}

-At the bottom of the LoadFiles function add this (Note: you could change img src=):

if (ext == "iso") {

document.write("<tr><td><span id='iso" + MyPath + escape(file.name) + "' class='drv' MCFocusable='true'><img src='Images/music.gif' width='34' height='34'>&nbsp;&nbsp;" + txt + "</span></td></tr>");

}

Last but not least add this to the playMedia function:[indent]

if ((ext == "mp3") || (ext == "wav"))
{

window.external.MediaCenter.PlayMedia(1,strUrl)

}
else
{

if(ext == "iso")
{

WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
OpenImage = '"c:\\program files\\alcohol soft\\alcohol 120\\axcmd"'+ "n: /m:" + strUrl
WshShell.Run(OpenImage);

}
else
{

window.external.MediaCenter.PlayMedia(2,strUrl)

}

}

Now all this hinges on the fact that you are running Alcohol virtual DVD drive but this could easily work for any mounting program, simply change the 'OpenImage' link to point to whichever is your favorite program.

Good luck...
(Note: The playlist does not work yet, you'll have to modify code to get that to work, havent gotten to that yet. Just happy to be able to mount DVD images without having to resort to keyboard and mouse.)

[Treason]

Nice Job Zonared

I never thought of using WScript, theoretically you could open any executable this way. Powerful stuff. Out of frustration I never went back to finish MCE file browser 2.0. Now you have sparked my interest again

I hate vista too btw... MCE 2005 is perfect for me.

[Zonared]

Thanks Treason,

All we need now is to access DVDshrink via command line so I can ripDVD without keyboard, its not just the keyboard and mouse is because I'm using a CRT which is hard to see small text. I looked into DVD shrink and it doesnt support command line input, is there another way to rip DVD's? I dont need to recompress them so maybe Nero?

Anyway looking forward to the updated version of file browser.

Thanks again,

Zonared

[C-Nut]

Originally Posted by Treason

Out of frustration I never went back to finish MCE file browser 2.0. Now you have sparked my interest again

Thanks for a great app treason. It's great to hear ur taking interest in it again! I'm sure heaps of ppl use it! I certainly highly recommend it.