um... you axtract the .img file. if you mount it as a virtual drive, it takes up certain ammount of virtual memory and or ram aswell. its best to extract the..img file and watch it that way. or convert it to avi. way better. the reason why its better to burn it instead of doing it like that is because your video ram and your sound ram and processors for video and sound are doing all the work. if your doing it like this your whole system gets taxed.