On my XBMC mediacenter I have a lot of DVD’s on disk, but XBMC doesn’t handle them very well. They are not recognized and the individual .VOB files in the folders show up. This makes it hard for less technical family members to start playing the video. This is why I wanted to test if iso images make it better/easier.

On Ubuntu it’s easy to convert dvd files to iso images. First install GenISOimage:

$ apt-get install genisoimage

After that go to the directory with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subfolders and start the conversion:

$ genisoimage -dvd-video -o dvdimage.iso /folder_with_dvd_files/