EggXpert

Does such a beast exist?   I'm kind of getting tired of burning ISOs to DVD.  The ISOs are great for travel with my laptop and they organize nicely, but they are a nuisance to get to the TV without those little plastic discs.

In my ideal world, I would use the device's remote to connect to a SMB/CIFS share, display a list of playable video files, including DVD ISO files, and then be able to play them.  I have a GigE network, so network speed shouldn't really be an issue.

I could live with a "sacrifice" like having to copy the file to the device's HDD storage, but no BSing around with transcoding, extracting or other time-consuming nonsense.  I can get movies off of ISOs onto my Tivo now, but it involves a lot re-coding and slow transfers to the device (which are generally streaming transfers).

 

Yeah it's called a Home Theater PC. (HTPC)

But I don't want a whole PC.

..... The the answer is "No there is not anything that will do what you want that is not also a whole PC."

http://www.ziova.com/cs510_specs.php

 

It looks like there is, actually.  Although the support forum gets  a fair amount of complaints about system stability, it DOES play ISOs without requiring any of the complicated HTPC setups.

 

I'm actually not totally opposed to HTPC, either, but I already own an HD Tivo, and the hassle/complexity of Myth and similar packages isn't worth it for a single feature (ie, playable ISOs).