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Hi! I like imgburn but I am missing some features in build mode. I use build mode only for burning directly to cd. It would be better if it were possible to create folders in build mode. And I'm missing multisession support. If these were implemented I would hardly use anithing else at all. (Except for audio cd-s)

There is a read function in ImgBurn for non protected discs, this allows you to create an .iso, I don't know if it's what you require for your purposes tho.

Aplogies if ImgBurn already does this but: I use ImgBurn under W2K as a convenient and reliable way to burn ISO images to disc. These are usually downloads of LINUX images, etc. It would be nice if the reverse could take place, insert the OS disc and create an ISO Image to hard disk. This would be useful for long term archiving, CDROMs are not to be relied upon for long term storage, or for mounting with say Daemon Tools or as VMware CDROM images.

I've been using DVDShrink to back up my DVDs to DVD5s for a long time. Now, I want to create DL DVDs that have the VIDEO_TS files from DVDShrink + other data files. What I would like to do is to tell DVDShrink to create the VIDEO_TS files at a total size to fit on one layer so that I do not have to worry about layer breaks. Then, other data files would fit on the 2nd layer. (All of my standalone DVD players play discs like this with no problem.) So, my question (at long last) is: What size should I specify in DVDShrink so that all of its output files will fit on one layer when burning a DL disc with IMGBurn? Any help is appreciated!

Sorry but how do I go about creating a VIDEO_TS file. Do I still create it using DVDStyler? I really am a novice at this.

I'm not sure that's what Drakkenson meant. If it was, my apologies... I'd have just recommended DAEMON Tools. Mount your ISO in the DT virtual drive and view it as you would do any normal CD / DVD via explorer. On the other hand, if I understood the initial post correctly, Drakkenson wants to add folders to the 'File' mode from all over the place (multiple drives etc) and then have ImgBurn create a kind of root folder in 1 single place on the hdd with all those random files combined. i.e. take C:\Folder1 and D:\Folder2, then output C:\Root\Folder1 and C:\Root\Folder2. It just seems like a bit of a tidy up exercise to me!

Please can you post a copy of the log or partial log that you create in ImgBurn. We need a bit more info........ Thanks

Yes, I'm a newbie to ImgBurn, but certainly not a newbie to burning on to recordable media. My hardware hasn't changed in years. My custom built XP box is all aluminum with liquid cooling, alot of DDR3200 RAM, an overclocked P4 w/HT Canterwood CPU, and a pair of LG GSA-4160B Super Multi DVDRAM drives which will burn onto anything short of HD DVD's. Until now I haven't tried burning onto Dual Layer discs because they were so damned expensive! They've come down in price now, as I knew they would... even more drastically lately with the advent of HD DVD media. So I took the plunge and bought a spindle of Sony DVD+R DL discs and went to load up Nero to burn a couple of full disc rips I pulled so that I can free up some drive space. Lo and behold, Nero didn't want to co-operate! Kept seeing my blank media as a CD-R and was flashing a message saying something to the effect of 'Hey, DOPEY! You can't burn over 7 gig's of video onto a 650MB CD-R!' *Great, now what do I do?* I briefly entertained going out and buying Nero 7, but after reading up on it and Nero in general, I found out that Nero isn't what one would call 'Dual Layer Friendly'. During my readings I saw a few folks mention ImgBurn2 as being a 'Cure For All Your Burning Ills'... and it's free?? I figured this was a bunch of propaganda, but decided to download the application and try it out. A quick read of the guide showing how to use ImgBurn to create a DL DVD with .IFO, .VOB and .BUP files and within minutes I'm burning my first DVD DL disc. It's still going right now... just verifying the job. Once it's done I'm going to pop that disc in my TV's player and see what the end results are. So long as the proof is in the pudding, not only will I be donating some $$ but I'm also going to spread the word about how great this application really is! Great job to the creator! I hope everyone who uses this application does the right thing and shows their gratitude! Especially since Nero goes for some $50 to $70 off the shelf and leaves you hanging when you can't do what you should be able to do with it!

the reason i ask is because i had the exact same problem, except my image sectors are a tad different. When i told me the image was too large for the disk i just assumed it would create two DVDs? Shows how much i know.

Here is what I'm trying to do. I TiVo-ed My Highschool football teams game (State Champs). After editing all I can with VideoReDo (5.3 GB), I authored it with DVDstyler and created an .iso file, but when I try to burn a DVD+R DL on ImgBurn I get an error stating something llike this: "Optimal L1 Data Zone Start LBA: Not Found The image was not correctly mastered for burning onto a double layer (OTP Track Path). None of the cells meet the 'dvd specification criteria' for a potential layer break position. " I got this quote from another post, but it said something about needing a layer break. How do I do this in ImgBurn?

I have seen this error so many times I cannot count - I may as well ask, is this something to worry about or can I just ignore it, or, is there an easy fix for it? I get this error when I use DVD-Shrink to create a full-sized image. My version of Shrink is 3.2.0.15 and it says "English Version" - It is not the "New Version" with the patch that is supposed to call up IMGBURN rather than DVD Decrypter for burning. That version is neutered - Is has all of the decryption gear cut out of it like a cat that has been... De... Clawed. There is also another version of Shrink floating around that is not supposed to have the neutering in effect, but I tried that one and it always fails, crashes: Because of a DEP error (Data Execution Prevention) that I cannot call up an exclusion for. However, this is not about Shrink - What I want to know, is how serious is this error? I have burned several DVDs where this error has popped up like a weasel- The APPEAR to run properly in my DVD player, but there is a noticeable gap during the layer break. The image kind of stops and jerks for a second. I really do prefer the original DVD Shrink to the versions that have been altered. So, my question is: Is the use of the unaltered Shrink fouling me up? So I actually need to be using the version of Shrink that has been chopped up and has had it's heart and liver removed? Or, is there a way I can take these ISO files and process them so that the error goes away? Is there an easy way to deal with it? Or, best yet: has this topic been discussed elsewhere, where I can read the discussion and see what people have done about it? OK, whoever can answer this, TIA. BTW, Hi BluTach, I promise to behave in here.

Please help!! I've created an iso file through another program. The FIRST time I used IMG to burn a DVD it worked fine!!! Then I tried to burn more DVD's. The burn process goes off without a hitch-I can play the DVD on any computer but not on my television & DVD set. I've tried using DVD +R and DVD -R with no difference. I read on the board where one person tried to change the book type to DVD Rom and it worked perfectly. I tried to do that on the Samsung and saw no DVDROM listed. I need help. This iso show has taken me over 2 months to create as a Christmas gift. I don't want it as a CD video but as a DVD. I feel fortunate the first one worked well, but after previewing it, I made a few minor changes. So I redid a new ISO file and tried to copy to DVD -several times now with no success. (I know the info is on the disc-just can't play it on the living room DVD.) Please HELP!!!!!! Also, can I recopy over these discs or must I throw them out? Please help!!!

Alright, here's my problem. I've downloaded a few movies and unless I download it as an .iso file, it won't work after I burn it. I've followed the guide you guys provided, and I've converted the vob, ifo, and bup files to an iso, but after I create and burn it, it will not work. Anyone have any ideas of what I might be doing wrong?

About adjusting the virtual memory. What was, supposedly, the amount of RAM you can have where they say you can turn off virtual memory, for the most part? Or make a really small file. I forget, but, there's a supposed listed amount of RAM where if you have you, you can effectively disable virtual memory. Because, if you have 4 GB, who wants to create a 6 GB swapfile if they can avoid it. For instance, back when I had just the 1 GB, my VM file was 3 GB.

It's probably not the free disc space. Those listings for DVD burning are the maximum, worst case scenario. Meaning, if you were making a full DVD+R DL, what it would first do, maybe, is copy all ~9 GB of the target discs's data to the program's temporary directory. Then, it would create the image from those files, effectively, doubling the space to, roughly, ~18 GB, 2 x 9. And, if you didn't have the required free space in a case like this, the burner application wouldn't functioning. Meaning, it would tell you it can't operate due to lack of necessary free space. Unless it's terribly written, which is typical HP.

You raise a good question with that last one. I was staggered that they offered 1GB for free. I was only hoping for 50MB like Yoxio, and would have settled for 10MB for free. But, what the hell, it's free. And they're a commerical org with ads. I donated to yoxio to keep it going. Apparently enough people didn't so it went bye-bye. I know that Cox (my broadband ISP) gives me 10MB of space for web pages. But, at this point, I don't intend to put up a web page (tho' in the near future I'm probably going to start my own political blog-type thing, but it seems easier to use one the established web sites that do that than create my own page; after all 10MBs is not a heullva lot for a webpage!). And, frankly, I have no idea how to do it. And I don't know if it can even be used for hosting images for posting on chatboards and the like.

Hello all, I was curious If someone here would be kind enough to help me find some good programs for making DVDs. What I am wanting is something that I can make menus with and something where I can create Chapter Stops. I am at best a newbie to all this, so I am looking for something not too complicated, Any help is very much appreciated.

Pamela IMGburn does not rip anything its a burning only software , you would need files or folders on your hard drive for IB to create an ISO and then burn.Hang in there its just a learning curve we all go through

I am trying to create an iso image from a downloaded file. The iso file is 699MB but the image that is created is nearly twice that size and hence will not burn onto a CD. Can anyone help me with this admittedly newb issue? Thanks, Matt

Sorry, no. If it's not possible via the GUI (which it's not), it can't be done via an IBB. It's just not how I intended ImgBurn to operate/be used. If you need a virtual folder tree where you can create folders and move things about etc, you have to stick with tools like Nero. Of course if I ever change my way of thinking (which is doubtful as the GUI basically doesn't allow for it! - size wise), this feature will of course be implemented anyway as the functionality will exist in the main GUI workings.

As soon as I posted that, I occured to me that one regime might be to select the 2-3 folders in question that have about 970 MBs on them, create an ISO and then burn them to DVD. Then go back to My Docs, delete the contents of these folders while leaving the folders themselves in place, and then resuming the regime for Backing up my Docs & Sets. Does that make sense?

Ta Shamus; I?m plugging along trying to familiarize myself with the vocabulary and making progress. I didn?t want to create the impression I expected y?all to hold my hand through that exercise. That?s what things like ?Webopedia? are for; after all; eh? I had to start pretty far down the savvy ladder. I didn?t know there was a difference between CDs and DVDs until a couple of weeks ago, and then when I came upon all the DVD formats and flavours and code names?. well? I had gone over the Guides area, and, in response to Mr. Lightening; I was favourably impressed with the layout and logic. Not much shy of elegant, I ?pines. Beats anything I?ve come across so far in the way of ?Learnin? Tools? anyways; ?suits me right down to the ground, and then some. But I?m new in these parts and subject to amazement about many things that the locals might rightly well take for granted. I?d be hard put-upon to venture in on improving it, especially since I just clapped eyes on it. Now if he?d asked ?the missus?, he?d a got enough opinions on improvements ?to last?. It wouldn?t matter that she?s never laid a finger on a computer, and still thinks ?Download? is what I used to do to our daughter when she blew curfew. She still can?t forgive Panasonic for the way the display on the microwave always sticks colons in the temperature setting. She reckons we must have got the Japanese version by mistake; or something. There isn?t now, nor ever has been, anything created by God or ?factured by man that couldn?t do with a good ?improving? in her mind. And once it?s been improved, and ticking along like a Rolex with a fresh battery, that?s about the time it appears there?s a systemic flaw in the arrangement and it?s time to bulldoze it down and start over from scratch. If Mr. Lightening really wants suggestions about "improvements", he needs to ask a wife. If he wants to get cured of the habit, he should get one. ?well? having spent the bulk of my free time over the last month or so; the time left over when I?m not ?improving? something, like my personality, the way I dress, what I read, what music I listen to, how long a ?tail? I should let dangle from the roll so?s she doesn?t have to pick at it to get the next sheet, or on a deputy ministerial commission project around the house or the yard, ? time trying to find a way to copy my docs & sets to some kind of storage medium, and not succeeding so far, and feeling like an absolute putz, I am now in a position of asking where the dickens do I find the/se folder/files with the phrase ?Documents and Settings? so I can push the right buttons to make it so? I?ve seen references to there being something called a Windows File System, and that stuff is filed in there. I?m not convinced this is true, and I take no responsibility for the probity of these rumors. I?m going on heresay. I got to the point of opening the ImagBurn app and finding the icon to select a file, and I can find in something labeled (C:) an entry for ?Documents and Settings?, but it is dated September 2004! I don?t know what button to push next.

No need to "improve" anything at your end. I just have to acquaint myself with the acronyms and terminology. Like: What the heck is an "ISO" and where do they come from? I don't understand enough to suggest anything at this point. An ISO (and the multitudes of other names for it) is something like a ZIP file. It can contain a single file or thousands of files and it's built in a similar way to a ZIP file. The difference is that an ISO is what's called an image file. It can be an exact duplicate of a music CD or movie DVD or a collection of other files but it's in a special, single file format. ImgBurn can create or burn these image files onto a CD or DVD of your choice. For example: Let's assume you want to make a backup of your important files. With ImgBurn you can select these files individually or as a group and create a backup of the files as an ISO image. Now you load the newly created ISO image into ImgBurn and burn as many copies as you like. This is a fairly simple example... and speaking of examples, you should visit the GUIDES area for more info.

ImgBurn WILL show the list even if there is just one option. It never used to, but now a user can do things like toggling the 'seamless' flag, it's needed. I wouldn't get into cell splitting within ImgBurn, that's more or an authoring thing. ImgBurn is all about the burning side of things. If you use ImgBurn's 'Build' mode to create an image/disc from the VIDEO_TS files, you'll get far more choices than if it's just given an ISO.

If you had XP PRO you could type gpedit.msc in run box and double click administrative templates , click on system, in right hand pane look for turn off auto play click on it and then enable it for CD Roms etc. I am sure XP Home does not allow this command though. You may be able to do it using the registry in xp home HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom. Double-click the Autorun value, and type 0 for its value If Autorun is not there create new DWORD value name it Autorun and 0 for the value. Edit maybe the registry from my xp pro above will not work in Home. As i found this after i typed it. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/Win...dowsXPHome.html And this http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/cd_autoplay_home.htm