Even more useful, the chips in any modern devices have dedicated MP4 decoders and will perform better with that on playback and battery. 

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( -.-)      Kris Browne
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> On Nov 27, 2015, at 11:58, T L <tlunde at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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> wrote:
>> >
>> > Odd not old
>> >
>> >
>> > -------- Original message --------
>> > From: Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com>
>> > Date: 11/25/2015 8:06 PM (GMT-06:00)
>> > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
>> > 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>
>> > Date: 11/25/2015 11:11 AM (GMT-06:00)
>> > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
>> > 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
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