How do you view an ISO

[dfisher052]

Is there any way to view an ISO file before burning it? I don't want to convert it. I just want to see what it looks like before burning a copy.

[BJ_M]

daemon tools
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php

[dfisher052]

Thanks for the link. I did install Deamon Tools, but... when I click on the icon on the desktop nothing happens. Nothing opens. I tried to access the manual in the help file but got a 404 Not Found. So how does this thing work? Thanks for any help you can give me.

[cal_tony]

I have had the program installed for quite awhile so all I can say is that it shows up on my taskbar and if I Left click the icon I get options. If I right click the icon I can add an iso. It adds the iso to a phantom drive.On my sys drive G: have a shortcut on my desktop to drive g. Click dr g: and iso shows up as Video ts folder

[dfisher052]

Thanks. I found it. It came on as drive K:, which was not on my computer, so I had to go into Tweak ui and add that drive & low & behold there it was. I opened drive K: & there were the vob files.

[MOVIEGEEK]

You can also use IsoBuster to view contents or Nero Showtime to watch.

[MysticE]

And if you have Nero you can activate Nero ImageDrive.

[Kairo]

Use UltraISO and you can view it's contents like you would a folder without having to mount the image. You can also add files, delete files, or change the file structure.

[CrayonEater]

WinRAR will extract ISOs.

[Bodyslide]

VLC will also play ISO's

[DarrellS]

daemon tools seems to be the winner since it's free. Took me a while to figure out how to use it but it works ok. I'd rather be able to just right click on a ISO and open it but this is better than nothing and I'm not paying money for the convenience of playing an ISO when I can view the VOBs it the TS folder with plenty of freeware programs.

I thought Nero would be the winner since I got to udgrade to a version that had alot more tools than my original version but when I tried to play the ISO file with Nero Showtime, I was prompted to purchace the DVD decoder plugin to play the audio (video played fine) or purchace the premier version.

[Sifaga]

i second bodyslide , use VLC , its free

i right click the ISO file and choose VLC to play it

[DarrellS]

OK, VLC it is.

Daemon Tools is mainly for playing games without the CD, I believe.
You still have to open the VIDEO_TS folder and open the the VTS_01_1.IFO to play the movie from an ISO with Daemon Tools.

This is much simpler. Thanks.

[classfour]

Alcohol 120% - allows you to mount the image onto a virtual drive - not free, though.

It does work very well.

[BJ_M]

OK, VLC it is.

Daemon Tools is mainly for playing games without the CD, I believe.
You still have to open the VIDEO_TS folder and open the the VTS_01_1.IFO to play the movie from an ISO with Daemon Tools.

This is much simpler. Thanks.

it is not only for playing games - plus wit MPC, you just drop the whole folder into MPC to play - you dont need to select anything ...

[Bjs]

An all rounder is zipgenious - can even print the content's of an iso to web page for what ever purpose you need .

Not to forget it can extract from iso's as well .

[dfisher052]

Just to update from my original question... I took the advice to install Deamon & that worked, but then when it was suggested to try VLC I installed that. OOOO, so much easier. What a cool player. That will now be my ISO player of choice. And actually for mpg's and avi's. too. Thanks, as always for all the great advice you people offer.

[DarrellS]

plus wit MPC, you just drop the whole folder into MPC to play - you dont need to select anything ...

That's good to know. I never thought of that. I just dragged a TS folder into Power DVD and it worked there also. If only those two programs would play ISOs.

[BJ_M]

yes - true .... would be nice ....

btw -- forgot to mention winrar opens iso and img files also ...

[Ai Haibara]

I'm using a program called 'IZArc' as my archiver shell (in Windows), and it apparently handles all the 'common' CD image types as well.

[hech54]

Open it with DVDShrink.

[DarrellS]

Wow, I never thought to look under File on the DVD Shrink toolbar. You can even watch it in full screen.

VLC is still a good player to have since it will play a few files that MPC won't but...