Home Station User Guide
4 Technical Specifications
4.1 File Formats
Following is an introduction to some of the file formats, which are supported by the Home
Station media player.
4.1.1 .ISO
Only with the Home Station can you create your own virtual DVD library by
storing your private collection of DVDs (using the .ISO format) and watch them
as if they were running from the original DVDs.
Once the movies are stored on the Home Station media player as .ISO files, you can play
them just like an original DVD with full DVD functions: Menu, Chapter selection, Audio
stream selection, Subtitle selection, Fast Forward, Fast Backward, Slow, Pause, Step
Forward, Repeat and Search are all included.
An ISO file is the image file on a DVD disk. ISO image files are widely used to store, then
transfer DVD contents through the Internet. ISO is a common DVD image format for DOS,
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and other operating systems. The Home Station media player
can play the .ISO file exactly the same as if it was running from the original DVD.
The produced files are huge in
size, but this is not a limitation for
the Home Station, as it supports
any of the FAT32, NTFS or HFS+
file systems.
Note: The largest
single file size on FAT32 is 4GB!
If your ISO is bigger than that,
you will have to format your
hard drive using NTFS or HFS+.
The adjacent figure depicts
various .ISO movies that have
been produced in less than 12 min each.
The Home Station is not designed or intended to, and may not be used to violate
any copyrights or other IP (Intellectual Property) rights. Each user of the Home
Station may only use it in connection with materials legally owned by or licensed to
the user, and only extend such ownership or license rights that will permit such use.
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