// extraordinary dvd player

Your DVD collection is sitting in a folder doing nothing. Extraordinary DVD Player turns it back into discs you can actually watch — with their full menus, their scene selection, their extras — on the Apple TV in the living room, the iPad in the kitchen, or Vision Pro. Nothing is converted. Nothing leaves your house.

Real menus, not a file browser

Most media servers throw away everything that made a DVD a DVD and leave you with a wall of filenames. Extraordinary DVD Player runs the disc's actual navigation: you land on the menu the studio built, with its motion, its music, and its scene pages, and you drive it with your Siri Remote. Pick a scene and you land exactly where the disc says you should — because it's the disc deciding, not a guess based on chapter numbers.

What you get

• Original quality. Video is served as the disc's own MPEG-2 stream and decoded on your device — never transcoded, never degraded.
• Live DVD menus, driven by your remote — the real thing, not a recreation.
• Scene selection that lands correctly, every time.
• A modern transport on vintage discs — skip, scrub, chapters, and audio-track switching.
• Instant handoff. One screen drives a disc at a time; walk to another room, pick it up there, and the first screen politely steps aside.
• Cover art your way — paste, drop, or pick artwork per disc and your shelf looks like a shelf.
• 100% local. No accounts, no cloud, no subscription, no data collection. Turn off your internet and it still works.

How it works

1. Run the server on your Mac and point it at the folder holding your DVD backups — VIDEO_TS folders or .iso images, however you already store them.
2. Open the app on your Apple TV or iPad. It finds the server on your network by itself; there is no IP address to type and no account to make.
3. Pick a disc. You're at its menu in seconds. Press play.

Where it runs

• Apple TV
  tvOS — at launch
• iPad
  iPadOS — at launch
• iPhone
  in progress
• Mac
  in progress
• Apple Vision Pro
  in progress

One app, one purchase, every screen — as each platform lands it simply appears. The server always runs on a Mac.

The server

Extraordinary DVD Server is a small menu-bar app for the Mac. It reads your library, drives the DVD navigation with libVLC, and streams to your devices over your own network. It is free and open source under the GPL — and it is not on the Mac App Store, because doing this job properly needs deeper access to media than the sandbox allows.

Requirements

Server	A Mac, kept awake while you're watching. Free download, GPL source.
Players	Apple TV or iPad at launch; iPhone, Mac and Vision Pro to follow.
Network	Both on the same local network. No internet connection required.
Your discs	DVDs you have backed up yourself, as VIDEO_TS folders or .iso images.

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