Playback of multiple DVD ISOs at once?

[Joebob]

All,

I am considering the move from Snapstream to Sage. With Snapstream, the client PC does all the mounting of DVD ISOs when using the DVDLibrary plugin. From my understanding, SAGE does the mounting on the server. It seems like this will limit DVD playback to only 1 at a time even though I will have 3 HD300s in the house.

1) Am I correct?
2) What are my options to being able to playback as many DVDs simultaneously as I have extenders?

EDIT: I currently have a library of 400+ DVDs ripped as ISO files. Reripping or transcoding them will be a real PITA so I would rather not, but that won't be a show stopper.

[TwistedMelon]

Originally Posted by Joebob

1) Am I correct?

No, your are incorrect.

2) What are my options to being able to playback as many DVDs simultaneously as I have extenders?

Just play them.

[Joebob]

Originally Posted by TwistedMelon

No, your are incorrect.
Just play them.

I am incorrect about what part? If the HD300 is mounting the ISO local to itself then I don't have a problem, but from what I read that is not the case. If the mounting is happening on the server, what do I need to do to allow mounting 3 ISOs simultaneously?

I know I can setup VCD to allow a bunch of virtual DVD drives, but is SageTV smart enough to spread various "Mount DVD" commands across multiple virtual drives?

[Narflex]

Originally Posted by Joebob

I know I can setup VCD to allow a bunch of virtual DVD drives, but is SageTV smart enough to spread various "Mount DVD" commands across multiple virtual drives?

Yes, SageTV is that smart.

[Joebob]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Yes, SageTV is that smart.

I must say that I am surprised. Not that I doubt you as a company, but that is nice forward thinking for a brand new feature. I am a senior level software developer at a very large company and something like that would easily be overlooked until it blew up in our face.

I read in numerous posts that Sage requires 2 virtual drives. Does that mean I need n+1 drives where n is the max number of concurrent DVDs I want to play or do I need n*2?