android app to mount iso files?

[rshemeld]

hi is there an android app to mount iso files?

 

[Dirk]

I doubt it and i can't even begin to imagine why you'd want one! Care to elaborate?

 

[rshemeld]

I have iso training video files from work and want to watch them on my phone during travels.

 

[Scrub Life]

Best thing to do would be to use Power ISO to get the vids then transfer them to your phone

 

[Dirk]

I would suggest transcoding to another format as .iso will not play on your phone. Try Handbrake which is a great, free program.

 

[FLAC Vest]

Yea ISO isn't supported as a video format, you'll need another application to convert it to something decodable.

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[nold-i-spolen]

I doubt it and i can't even begin to imagine why you'd want one! Care to elaborate?

It would be nice to put a downloaded file/film directly on your phone
Or download it from your phone.
.......without having to spend a cupple og hours converting it to an other format.

My computer play iso's directly, why not also my phone?

Around 1/3 of what i download is ISO's........

 

[cyansmoker]

Dude.
No, your computer does not "play iso" files. It is likely that it mounts them and plays their content, though.
What Android is missing, in your case, is a way to mount these images. It already comes with many players that will be able to play their content.

 

[nold-i-spolen]

Well, yes, my computer mounts the iso, then plays the content.........(=my computer plays iso's)

rshemeld point is (and mine) that we would like our phones to do the same........we can always discuss what to call it, in what order stuff is going on, but that's beside the point.

 

[doenis]

Your computer plays the videofiles contained in these cd/dvd Images, so why don't you just copy those from your pc to your phone? Chances are, you don't even have to transcode them... or, since isos are some kind of zipped files, try any unpacker you can find to open them.

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[nold-i-spolen]

One problem with that method is that the video file is chopped up into smaller pieces, I have tried to download several video players that can play them in the right order automatically..........but they couldn't

 

[MysticElf]

I doubt it and i can't even begin to imagine why you'd want one! Care to elaborate?

Geez... let's name a few others other than the one the originall poster stated...

Using a bootable ISO...

You would be able to boot your computer for oh so many reasons.

1.) Unlocking a locked OS
2.) Running Defrag the way it was meant to be run (w/o the original OS locking files down).
3.) Recovering deleted files/partitions w/o having to pull the drive and use another PC.

Number 4 and prob one of the best reasons...

4.) Try to see an iPhone do that! Just another reason why a Droid no matter what flavor... is still just BETTER!

I would like to use my DroidX with an [email protected] BootDisk ISO (http //www livecd com) so that I don't have to lug around another CD/USB. Plus on some networks USB devices are unauthorized unless they have biometrics. I'd still rather just boot from my phone.

 

[MysticElf]

hi is there an android app to mount iso files?

Though your reason is different than mine... I would also like to see this happen.

Esp if the PCs can see a bootable ISO as a bootable CD... and i'm sure I'm not the only one as some google searches will show.

 

[doktornotor]

hi is there an android app to mount iso files?

Sure. It is even bundled with Android system.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/file.iso /mnt/somewhere

Does not work? Well, here is the "small" glitch. Unless

cat /proc/filesystems

returns iso9660 among others, you would better start with recompiling your kernel.

 

[MysticElf]

Thx for the info!

Helps narrow down the options.

Time to see of anyone has recompiled

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[ankas]

I was wondering if there are any updates to this topic?

I would love to be able to somehow view the contents of several cdroms I have on my tablet running 3.2. These cds/dvds are interlinked files for example to do sample exams, the program can then check the answers. Another example is a dvd with multiple htmls interlinked with each other. I have tried converting all the files to a linkable pdf but about a third of the links still dont work and some files cannot be found or one has to scroll through the whole document. Any suggestions how I could get something like this into a format that would work on the transformer tablet?
Are there by now any apps which could read an iso file made of the cd/dvds?

 

[sagumay]

any of you guys have an update on these thread? i love also to see my training videos running on my android phone.

 

[Lunchbox115]

Why don't you convert the videos into *.avi-files for example before transfering them onto your phone?

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[Tubgirl]

I've got tons of DVD-ISO's on my home network (QNAP NAS) and it would be really cool to be able to stream those on my SGS2 but I guess that's a no go. Even my old 166Mhz PC could do it since decoding mpeg2-video doesn't need a lot of CPU power.

 

[swebb76]

I have used DVD Copy Pro to turn DVDs or ISO files into video files. Also have the option to compress them, so not taking up 4gb of space. Can compress significantly and have played just fine on my android phone. I'm sure there are many other programs that will do the same thing.