// extraordinary dvd server

Mac: version 0.7 · about 180 MB · Universal (Intel & Apple silicon) · macOS 13 or later · notarized. Free. Nothing else to install.

Any browser is the player

The server brings its own player. Open its address in a web browser on a laptop, a tablet or a phone on your network, and you get the disc as it was made: the menus, their motion and music, scene selection, extras. The film plays in its original MPEG-2, decoded right in the page. Nothing is converted, and nothing leaves your house. On Apple TV and iPad, the Extraordinary DVD Player app (coming to the App Store) finds the server by itself.

Set it up on a Mac

1. Open the download and drag the app to Applications. Then open it from Applications. It runs in the menu bar as Extraordinary DVD Server, with no Dock icon, and can start when you log in.
2. Allow Local Network when macOS asks, so other devices can reach it.
3. Choose your DVD folder in its Settings: the folder holding your discs as VIDEO_TS folders or .iso images. Folders inside it become shelves. It starts with your Movies folder.
4. Open a browser on any device on your network and go to the address its menu shows, or open Extraordinary DVD Player on your Apple TV or iPad.

Windows

The same server, built for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel and AMD PCs, is being packaged now and will be here soon. (Not yet for Windows on Arm.)

Requirements

Computer	A Mac (Intel or Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later) or, soon, a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC. Kept awake while you're watching.
Your discs	DVDs you have backed up yourself, as VIDEO_TS folders or .iso images, on the computer or on a network drive it can see.
Players	Any modern web browser on your network. Apple TV and iPad with the app.
Network	Everything on the same local network. No internet connection needed.

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