Need app to play an .iso file on a mac

[fjmeat]

Is there an app I can install that will play a .ISO video without having to burn the image to a disc?

 

[Eug]

Just double click on it, and it should mount.

 

[fjmeat]

Just double click on it, and it should mount.

Doing so just opens a new window showing the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders.

 

[TheStu]

It should be mounted as a disk in your sidebar, you can then use VLC to play back the video, or just dig into it until you find the largest file in the Video_TS folder and open that.

 

[Eug]

Doing so just opens a new window showing the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders.

You can play these in Apple's DVD Player, or many other apps of your choosing. For DVD Player, choose the "VIDEO_TS" folder for playback.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8388831_play-videots-folders-mac.html

 

[manly]

You don't even need to specify the VIDEO_TS folder, DVD Player knows how to handle it once the DVD image is mounted.

 

[Patranus]

Welcome to the world of mac where everything is so simple you end up mind fucking it to death!

 

[sxr7171]

Yeah seriously. Just click on it. But to Windows' credit they also finally got around to supporting .iso natively.

 

[fjmeat]

cool thanks for the tips. works easily.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Welcome to the world of mac where everything is so simple you end up mind fucking it to death!

BS.

When I ported my wife over to OSX and the household's first Mac (right when Lion was released), there wasn't even an equivalent to the Windows Shortcut. I had to dig online as the Genius Bar was, well, less than Genius, and it took a month before someone helped me write a script to perform the same basic functionality built into Windows 95.

I have been told that since then there is native support, but that was a dollar short and a damn near year late. Simple my ass.

 

[TheStu]

BS.

When I ported my wife over to OSX and the household's first Mac (right when Lion was released), there wasn't even an equivalent to the Windows Shortcut. I had to dig online as the Genius Bar was, well, less than Genius, and it took a month before someone helped me write a script to perform the same basic functionality built into Windows 95.

I have been told that since then there is native support, but that was a dollar short and a damn near year late. Simple my ass.

Aliases? You mean Aliases right? Sure, it's not call 'Shortcut', but it's not like it's rocket surgery.

Or are you talking about hitting the Windows key, and it brings up start menu? Well, there's no start menu so... not sure what you were looking for there.

 

[Tegeril]

Yeah that complaint makes approximately 0 sense. What?

 

[purbeast0]

Aliases? You mean Aliases right? Sure, it's not call 'Shortcut', but it's not like it's rocket surgery.

Or are you talking about hitting the Windows key, and it brings up start menu? Well, there's no start menu so... not sure what you were looking for there.

lol. and on top of that you can pin them to the taskbar just as easy as in windows too.

 

[piasabird]

You cant play an ISO file. Isnt that like an image of a system? Usually that is an OS that has to be loaded at boot. That is how it would work on a MS PC.

 

[TheStu]

You cant play an ISO file. Isnt that like an image of a system? Usually that is an OS that has to be loaded at boot. That is how it would work on a MS PC.

ISO is just a disk image in general, like taking a DVD and creating an ISO of it so you can burn off perfect copies at will. People will back up their collections that way so the disks don't get ruined from use.

 

[Mixolydian]

ISO is just a disk image in general, like taking a DVD and creating an ISO of it so you can burn off perfect copies at will. People will back up their collections that way so the disks don't get ruined from use.

DISC!!!

 

[manly]

someone refresh my memory, aliases arrived in System 7?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

someone refresh my memory, aliases arrived in System 7?

Yeah. Although there were 3rd party utilities that offered the functionality before then.

Dim recesses of my memory, though. Sorry.

 

[Mixolydian]

Yeah. Although there were 3rd party utilities that offered the functionality before then.

Dim recesses of my memory, though. Sorry.

You are correct.

 

[TheStu]

DISC!!!

What's the difference? Is there an actual difference?

 

[Mixolydian]

What's the difference? Is there an actual difference?

Yes.

Disk = Magnetic/solid-state storage.
Disc = optical storage.

Every computer geek should know this.

 

[Rakehellion]

BS.

When I ported my wife over to OSX and the household's first Mac (right when Lion was released), there wasn't even an equivalent to the Windows Shortcut. I had to dig online as the Genius Bar was, well, less than Genius, and it took a month before someone helped me write a script to perform the same basic functionality built into Windows 95.

I have been told that since then there is native support, but that was a dollar short and a damn near year late. Simple my ass.

Mac OS has had aliases for decades now. It isn't a recent development.

 

[Eug]

Yes.

Disk = Magnetic/solid-state storage.
Disc = optical storage.

Every computer geek should know this.

Meh. Do you use the abbreviation "GiB"? I certainly don't, except in rare circumstances.

BTW, OS X now measures it in decimal. On a Mac, a 1 "TB" 10^4 byte drive is actually shown as 1 TB.

 

[shortylickens]

VLC does it, if Mac has VLC.

 

[Mixolydian]

Mac OS has had aliases for decades now. It isn't a recent development.

Probably had it before Windows did.