Hi,
First of all thank you Neil for starting this thread. I hit it on a search for exactly CISO burning.
I wonder why there is so much bashing this guy for suggesting support for this. You guys do not seem very open-minded.
I feel Neil has explained it perfectly.
Now we are two that are asking, and I have many colleagues and friends that are asking for this as well. Since we do a lot of ISO backups, this would be a great thing. We can compress the ISO to take less space on disk. Why would we want to have to extract or convert in order to burn the image.
Here is a private, real life example:
I have three kids, and a Wii. I can, and do back up my store bought Wii games (yes I have a LG drive, and my wii is modified). Anyway, I backup each disk to an ISO and save it on two different HDs. When the kids scratch a disk, I burn a new one, keeping the original on the shelf. Now, since we spent a good fortune on the 40+ games we have invested in, that takes up a fair amount of disk space. Each 4.7GB ISO can be compressed to half or less, since Nintendo uses a lot of empty space in their images.
It would be great to be able to burn the image directly from a CISO format instead of handling it first.
Looking forward to ImgBurn supporting CISO. If it never makes it into ImgBurn, that will be too bad, because it really is a cool tool.
Best Regards,
Rick