Idea to solve play from directory problem

[Zardoz]

Hi,
why not extend virtual clone drive to allow on the fly iso creation from a directory:
1) VCD scans the directory and builds neccessary structures/tables/tocs in memory (but no actual data)
2) presents a virtual drive to windows with this data
3) whenever actual sectors with data are requested read the data from the specified files, put data in sector format and give that to windows

That way one could use powerdvd 8 to play the Blu rays from a directory without having to isofy 50 gigabytes. You probably already thought of this. Is it planned for the future?

regards,

Zardoz

[SamuriHL]

Moved your post to the Virtual CloneDrive forum as it was not related to AnyDVD HD.

As for your idea, it's been discussed several times. However, it's not hard to rip them to ISO using the AnyDVD Ripper, and if you're doing movie only backups to save space then use my makeISO batch file. See my signature for more information on these topics.