Im like pigs in ****
Tried meedio, Spent 10 hours on it, in the end I didnt think it was worth the effort to continue.
Tried MyMovies (but failed to install on Vista 64).
I also felt all the above seemed to work fine with DVD's but not HD .iso's
Didn't want my front room cinima PC hooked up to the web either.
Ditched a basic html code I wrote too, worked fairly well but required a lot of manual work.
So this weekend I decided to WRITE my OWN software & after 18 hours, Bingo.
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Works like this (please no crying)!
1) It reads a file containing a list of your thumbnails (pictures off HD covers from amazon etc).
2) Reads a file with your .iso film names and locations (handy if you got lots of drives ect).
3) Opens a screen maxed to your screen resolution & fills it with all your thumbnails.
4) You select the thumbnail film of your choice,
(Displays the film name if it cant find a picture)
5) It pops up a splash screen for 2 seconds.
(higher resolution picture, e.g. film poster off google image search).
(Displays nothing if it cant find a picture)
6) Unmounts any .iso in Daemon tools that might be left in there.
7) Then loads your .iso into Daemon tools,
What ever you have as your default player (mine is PowerDVD Ultra) it
loads and wola your film plays.
8 ) Sits there waiting for you to choose another film when your finished.
I stick it in the startup so it loads automatically so the Mrs, Visitors kids (we dont have none), Cat whatever can use it.
No brainer!!!!
Note : Uses zero cpu.
______Has a config file where you can choose the background color that
______your thumbnails display on.
______And where your Demon tools program is.
______Thinking of tailoring it to load any program & pass any parms for
______any .iso e.g. CD's
______Self contained, doesnt modifiy any file, registry etc.
Funny hardly done any programming since the 80's on CBM64 (thought id lost the power) ow the fond memories.
Like they say "If you can't find a program to do what you want, Write it!"