How to Add ISO to Plex on Mac (macOS High Sierra)

Diana Joan

May 11, 2017 07:17 am / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Blu-ray, NAS

Why Can’t add ISO (Blu-ray) to Plex on Mac (macOS High Sierra)?

Most user are eager to know Plex can support ISO image or not, what a pity, Plex does not support ISO image, Video_TS, BDMV, or other "disk image" formats. As known to all, Plex is a famous media server which can store amy video files, video folder. In general, ISO files don’t fit into the idea behind the Plex ecosystem, detailed reason why plex doesn’t support ISO is below:

Reason 1: ISO files hide content behind built-in menu systems. The menus need to add extra UI that a user would need to wade through to get to the content,

Reason 2: For television content, disk image formats will lump multiple episodes on a single disk which makes it much more difficult to try and allow a user to directly access the particular episode they may want to watch.

If you are stick to adding ISO to Plex on Mac (macOS High Sierra), the best way is to convert ISO to Plex compatible video formats , such as: MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. There are many formats and tools available o the market, following will show you the best ISO Video Converter and simple operation steps.

Best ISO Video Converter for Adding ISO to Plex

Find a ISO Video Converter is easy, but you want to get the compatible and multiple video formats with high quality of the original ISO image, it’s really hard. Which software can keep the quality and high running speed? Bytecopy for Mac is worthy having a try, this ISO video converter can remove any ISO protection, also user can load DVD and Blu-ray disc to this software.

At the output video formats, this ISO Video Converter provides multiple video formats, like: MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, etc. User can get a perfect video file. Best of all, this software provides the lossless MKV video which can keep all audio tracks and subtitles. If you don’t like some audio tracks and subtitles, you can remove them.

What’s more, With this ISO Video Converter, user can convert ISO to 3D video and enjoy on VR headsets. Don’t pay any more money on 3D movie any more, so cool. This software also provide some video editing features, like: Trim video, add subtitles, add watermarker, replace and add audio, etc. You can download the trial version which is free. Also Windows user can download the ByteCopy for Windows version. Want to know more, you can read this review.

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Steps to Convert ISO to Plex Supported Formats

Step 1. Load ISO to this software

When you save ISO to your PC, open this ISO Video Converter and click click “File” > “Load ISO/IFO” to load ISO file into the program. By the way, you also can load DVD and Blu-ray to this software with any trouble.

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Step 2. Choose Plex Supported Video Format

Here, I high recommend MKV as the output video formats, because this powerful ISO Video Converter can provide many MKV format for you, click “Format” and open the video world, all the excellent video formats are here, as the following picture. You also can choose other video format, it’s up to you.

MKV output

TIP: If you are familiar with video related parameters and want to adjust them to Plex best supported parameters, you can click "Setting" button, here, you can configure the video and audio encoder codec, bitrate and video resolution, video frame rate, audio channel, audio sample rate. Just enjoy the video setting.

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Step 3. Strart ISO to Plex Conversion process

After all the video formats and settings are finished, go back to the main interface and click “Convert” to start the exciting ISO to Plex conversion. Wait for a while, this software will provide you a perfect video file with original ISO image quality.

After you get the converted ISO file, you can add it to Plex without any issue. If you want to add other video source to Plex, this software can help you too, such as: DVD to Plex. Hope this ISO Video Converter can be your best video assistant.

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