ISO media files

[Hollywood]

Hi,
I am new to Jellyfin and am quite impressed! I have a lot of original DVDs and a lot of DVDs that I ripped years ago with DVD Decrypter.

Now that I am switching to Jellyfin, I am using MakeMKV to convert the DVDs to a format that works with Jellyfin. About 25% fail. These disks play in my DVD player. I see Jellyfin will play ISO files too, but it puts up a warning to the affect that the file may be encrypted and Jellyfin will attempt to play it either way.

In my case any of the disks I would convert to ISO are the ones that fail on MakeMKV, but I know are no longer encrypted.

Once I pass the warning, the movie plays. Is there a way to eliminate that warning message when playing a movie that is in ISO format?

Thanks!

[Yankees4life]

???

JF has a hard time playing nice with ISO files so I would either keep using MakeMKV (or even Handbrake) to create JF compatible files...or try with a front-end like Kodi that can play anything you throw at it (depending the hardware of the device you're trying to play it in of course)

[Hollywood]

???

JF has a hard time playing nice with ISO files

Yea, I just created another one to test and Jellyfin wouldn't play it. 

My understanding is that (in non-technical terms) that MakeMKV converts disks to the MKV format at the same picture quality. What other program will convert a disk (and chapters for TV disks) to a format Jellyfin will play, but also with the same quality? Will Handbrake do that?

Thanks!

[TheDreadPirate]

MakeMKV will just directly copy the stream off the disk into an MKV container. Handbrake can't do that. It will want to encode the output from the disk. Additionally, Handbrake can't handle any complex DVD structures.

Any technical issues you may have with MakeMKV should be asked on their forum. The only advice I can give is to try the various Cell open settings. Cell Walk, Cell Trim, Cell Full? Something like that.

[Hollywood]

The only advice I can give is to try the various Cell open settings.  Cell Walk, Cell Trim, Cell Full?  Something like that.

Thanks for you advice and help.

[Kiptanoi]

and why is jellyfin on the market when Kodi does the job better?
I just wonder...... I have used Kodi for 10 years plus, and just installed a new server and do try out Jellyfin for the first time now, and wow, how bad it is compare to kodi.
It can not handle files, and it can not passthrough data.
The onlything it can, to be a server. And nothing else.
My guess is thats why it is populare, becouse you all download small files from torrents, and then want to share it.
You dont care about quality, you dont care about sound quality and dont care about nothing else than just share simple files.....

I really dont know why this brands like jellyfin and emby popup, when they dont even cant do stuff that is on the market allready.

[TheDreadPirate]

Kodi only does playback of local or network shared files. It can't send files outside of your network. It's a player and not a server. Kodi also has a limited client range. Jellyfin the server also adds the capability to transcode for devices that just don't have the grunt to software decode. Android TVs, Firesticks, Rokus, older devices. But there is also the option to allow software decode for powerful desktop clients. You can even use Kodi with Jellyfin as a server.

And you are making big assumptions. A lot of us, me included, rip our own media and spend a lot of time encoding to maximize both quality and space savings.

Some people just straight rip their discs and don't touch it. Can't get much higher quality than that.