Although the Popcorn Hour C-200 plays DVD from attached DVD ROM, it would be nice to have a DVD ISO image backup on NAS, and play the digital copy ISO file with the NMT C-200 or Popcorn A-200. A digital copy protects your original DVD from scratching and frequently use. An ISO image lets you have main movie, menus and everything in one file so you will no longer bother to navigate VIDEO_TS directory for the first chapter to start with. Besides, the DVD ISO image can be easily burned onto a blank disc when you feel like adding a backup copy to DVD collections. All right,
how to make an ISO image for Popcorn Hour C-200/ A-200 playback? Let
ImgBurn help you. The software creates DVD ISO image from unprotected DVD discs and folders. For commercial copy-protected DVDs? Well, just have
Pavtube DVD Ripper back the DVDs to unprotected VIDEO_TS folder before making ISO for Popcorn Hour C-200/ A-200 playback. Now that details of backup copy-protected DVD to VIDEO_TS are provided in previous post, this guide will focus on the workflow of
making region-free DVD ISO image from VIDEO_TS for Popcorn Hour C-200/A-200 playback.
Making region-free DVD ISO file for Popcorn Hour C-200/ A-200 using ImgBurn
Here we start with the VIDEO_TS folder backing up from a commercial DVD THE DEPARTED using
Pavtube DVD Ripper. Download and install
ImgBurn (Freeware), and follow the steps to burn a region-free DVD ISO file for Popcorn Hour C-200/ A-200.
Step 1. Run ImgBurn, when the interface pops up, select Create image file from files/ folders.
Step 2. Click the shortcut folder icon as it shows below, browse to the source VIDEO_TS folder generated by
Pavtube DVD Ripping software.
Step 3. Specify an output location to the ISO image to. Note there must be at least 5GB of free space for a single layer DVD (DVD 5).
Step 4. Switch to Labels and type in Volume Label in ISO9660 and UDF field.
Step 5. Start creating a DVD ISO image to specified location.
Step 6. When the operation completed, click OK to confirm. Then you can may stream the unprotected DVD ISO image to Popcorn Hour A-200/ C-200 supported NAS (SMB, NFS, FTP) or Media Servers (myiHome, etc) and play the movie freely.
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