Will VLC on AppleTV play ISO files?

[Snow_Owl]

Hello,

I read that VLC on AppleTV will not play ISO movie files of all my DVD's.

These DVD ISO's are on a NAS drive and I want to open and play them in VLC.

Am I right they won't play becuase of the license?

Thankyou.

[fkuehne]

They don't play due to a license conflict but probably a different one that you had in mind. The DVD playback libraries used by VLC are under the open-source license GPLv2 and this license is not compatible with the iOS and Apple TV's App Store's Terms of Services - therefore, distributing those libraries on the store would be a copyright violation and therefore we can't do it. Technically, there is nothing preventing this, but this legalese regrettably does :/

[Snow_Owl]

Thankyou Felix Paul Kuehne. Thats makes sense.
So it is down to Apples Terms and conditions, good to know.

What I think I will do is keep my ISO's as backups and then have a drive with just my films (dont really need the extras and bonus features) in a playable format.

Thanks again for your help.

[vlciosdts]

Hi, this used to work, even after the Dolby codec support was disabled. This doesn't work anymore, still. Please fix.

[fkuehne]

It never worked and it was never a supported or advertised feature. VLC includes a MPEG PS demuxer which can play some (non-encrypted) ISO files with heavy artifacts and that's unchanged.