Has anyone tried to mount an ISO file on the n810? I haven't actually done it yet but I just thought I'd ask first. Apparently, most linux flavors will let you do such a thing using:
While this might be useful for data CDs and DVDs, I'm wondering if it could be useful for DVD movies? If it was possible to mount an ISO created by DVDDecrypter, is there any software currently available that would be able to play DVD video on the n810? Is the processor powerful enough?

I'm just thinking it might be nice to skip the ripping/conversion steps and just play the DVD movie directly, with working menus, etc.

Thoughts?

VLC was just ported, and I know it can play .ISO files directly on a desktop computer. I'm ripping an .ISO right now to try it on my N800. I'll let you know when I have results.

VLC will open the .ISO and play the video, but the audio isn't working. I can't figure out why. It also takes a long time for it to respond to clicks on the on-screen menus.
Mplayer works for both the video and audio, but it takes a long time to respond to the menu also. I found a work around though--push the hardware menu button, then arrow to "Jump to...", then select the image name, and the movie will start.

baksiidaa - does the movie play without skipping?
- I presume you are talking about a direct rip, no no recode = 720 width + AC3 sound.

It seemed to play just fine, surprisingly enough. Yes, it was a direct rip--I just copied the DVD to a file image in Ubuntu.

I've tried a direct DVD (on a slow DVD rom which could not keep up - I think it was USB 1.1 but I'm looking into it). It worked, but slowly.

With penguinbaits CD driver the nokia has ability to mount iso9660 files which i have done, but not for playing movies... mostly just to experiment with packaging files and executables so they can run within isos on FAT based memory cards.

I would guess theres no chance the nokia could play native dvd videos with any acceptable speed though. Serge would be authority on this but i think its more of a video bottleneck.

Someone else posted that a copied (not transcoded) DVD played video fine, but without sound. But the MPEG2 bitrates may vary. And I don't know about the video acceleration, but I think that would be of substantial help.

I'm still experimenting - one DVD even my mac had trouble with (in the portable drive I was using) did manage to play the video menu.

If nothing else is running, there should be enough processing power to play a DVD reasonably well.

I should try a VCD.