Mike DelGaudio

Apparently, when using the DVD Library feature of Windows Media Center, the software would much rather have each DVD in a separate folder, with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subdirectories in that folder. I’ve had precious little success getting Media Center to read ISO format files.

So, if you have an ISO file Can you play it in Windows Media Center? Well, sure, kinda.

It turns out that your little friend 7-Zip, the free, open source archive manager, understands .iso format files as compressed archives.

So, simply open the .iso file in 7-Zip, and extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a folder in your library, and you’re off to the races.
Something like:

+Videos
+---My Movie
+-------- VIDEO_TS
|-------- AUDIO_TS
|-------- folder.jpg

Adding an image, explicitly named “folder.jpg” will add that as the “box cover” to your display in Media Center.

Best of luck.