PowerDVD HD playback issue

[Mdy4Blues]

After purchasing an upgrade from the OEM Power DVD 7.x that came with the LG blu-ray burner too the latest Power DVD 9.x I noticed that I could NOT play any back-ups of any movie from the hard drive. Either a full disk or ISO back-up.
I contacted their customer support is this is their reply;

"I understand your concern related with play Blu-ray files from hard
drive and Virtual drive.

In regards to your concern, please note that PowerDVD support
playing of Blu-ray Title's, only from the disc. You will not be able
to play the Blu-ray Title's from hard drive or using .iso files.

Please feel free to contact us back for any further clarification or
for any assistance related to CyberLink Products.

Thanks and Regards
Akhilesh
CyberLink Technical Support"

HOWEVER, Total Media Theater 3.x DOES!
Something to consider when choosing which player software to purchase.

[drobo]

This is strange. The Cyberlink PowerDvd 9 version that came with my Pioneer Blu Ray drive has no problems playing .iso blu ray movies mounted with Virtual Clone Drive or Daemon Tools Lite on a drive letter.

[bmiller]

I use virtual clone drive without issue.The only message i get the odd time is the mouse won't work with this movie. You can use the keyboard instead.

[bup]

Could you play them with PowerDVD 7?

In general, I have found that to get a ripped movie to play, I need to rename the MovieObject.bdmv file to MovieObj.bmd and Index.bdmv to Index.bdm.
Also I need to remove the BDJO folder. I can't remember which of these changes need to be made in the BACKUP folder, but to make it easy, just do the same in that folder.

I believe I also needed to change the file extensions in PLAYLIST to .mpl and in CLIPINF to .cpi. These changes may also need to be made in the BACKUP folder.

I can't even remember how I figured this stuff out before. Probably looking at a bluray disc's folders, filenames and file extensions.

Anyway, this may solve your problem. But remember, you will need to change some of these names and filenames back if you want to burn a playable BD or DVD5/9.