Help with playing iso image files on WMC7 on my HTPC!

[Dad2David]

Hi All,

I have Win 7 Home Premium (64-Bit) both on my Intel Core i5 desktop and my AMD A6 HTPC, I run WMC and use My Movies to manager my collection - the problem is this:

I can play my iso image files fine in WMC on my desktop using Slysoft Virtual Clone Drive and Mikinhos Mount Image to automatically mount the images! (I downloaded the x64 file on Mikinhos, is that the right file for 64 bit, I would think so)!

When I did the same on my HTPC it did work fine for the first time, but every time I restart it the image does not mount and the file does not play, it does not give me an error, but when I click on play in My Movies, WMC just asks me whether I want to burn a CD or DVD and when I click close on that or just wait, it does not play the movie the blue activity indicator circle (instead of the hourglass) just disappears and I am back to the My Movies screen!

In WMC Movies (not using My Movies, here) it gives me an error asking me to check the path specified, looks like WMC is not recognizing the virtual drive created by the software!

How do you play your image files? What mounting software do you use? I tried uninstalling both the applications and re installing but same thing, it does play when I do it, but after rebooting the same issue again, have no idea how to fix it.

I tried DVD fab virtual drive & Daemon Tools Lite instead of Virtual clone, and WMC keeps telling that it could not find an appropriate software to mount the image for both, why is this, doesn't WMC recognize these virtual drives?

Any help is greatly appreciated?

A good chunk of my movies are in ISO image files, so I would love for them to auto mount and play in WMC! I know this works (on my desktop) but don't know why it wouldn't on the HTPC!

Thanks in advance! I'll add some screen shots to this post as soon as I get home today, if that helps!

[Dad2David]

Okay some more information on this, I figured out that the even though the virtual drive shows the image as mounted when i click play, it does not load the disc, I have tried to expand the dir in the virtual drive (F: in my system) and it asks me to insert a disc into the BD-ROM drive, even after the Taskbar virtual clone drive icon tells me that the image is mounted on drive f:

Also the virtual clone is not able to add a desktop icon when i try to install it! Looks like something somewhere is corrupted not sure where though!

Please help!

[Dad2David]

Is there anyone here who can help with this?

I can provide more info on this if needed, please let me know!

[reddle]

Having a similar problem see http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=52281 have you got anywhere with this one?

Roy...