how do i play iso

[QuietMike]

My pi will arrive shortly, and the only thing i wanted to do was to be able to see a list of some kind of all my movies and shows (all in .iso format on an external hd connected to my win7 computer) and be able to stream them to my tv.
i was going to use Raspbmc as the os, but i found out it wont play iso's,.

what do i need to do to be able to accomplish this?

[JeremyF]

You can look and see what's inside the ISO by unpacking it using a program using 7zip or something similar. My hunch is that it's just an disk image containing a bunch of other video files.

[amyren]

according to this youtube video, raspbmc have been updated so it can play dvd files and iso files.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3dgZbZ-9MY

Not sure if you need to get the mpeg2 licence key though.

[SirLagz]

if you have can access the ISO file, run this command to mount the ISO file to a directory

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mount -o loop /path/to/iso.file /path/to/mountpoint

Then you can browse the ISO file as if it was a normal directory