You know, it is actually funny to think how all-encompassing playback programs (like VLC, Kodi, etc.) have so obscured the actual complexity of playing the contents of image files like ISOs. It used to be that images were predominantly used for burning physical media (largest benefit being consistency, in that it removed a lot of human error in the burning process) or you had to find a program to mount the image as a virtual drive and then generally still interact with it as if it was an actual disc (or whatever it was an image of). Fast forward a decade and commercial video player compliant content NOT in an image is considered the difficult method…
Just amazing… from a certain point of view.