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That's not the only issue. The all-or-nothingness of it was the main issue. A person might want to check for updates regularly, but they don't need to always have the latest. Give the ad hominems a rest. Being able to burn files and create ISOs makes it a de facto ripper. I've posted on this issue numerous times. Nero and others do not have the same functionality as ImgBurn, so they aren't good comparisons. What you should say is that ImgBurn won't circumvent copy protection. Nor will Nero and Roxio and others. It can rip unprotected discs or "drives" if you know what I mean. (And I think you do.)

Hello. Congratulations to LUK for this excellent program! I was reading the forum (including FAQs and Guides ) and I was wondering what's the best way to record DL media. Create an ISO and then record or record directly from HDD files? Regards.

Thought I'd start another thread separate from the announcement thread to thank LUK for his fine work. Burning files is an important step for ImgBurn. It will save time and steps for burning single and double layer disks without having to first create an image or use commercial software. Additionally, if you need to overburn a DVD+R, you can do that in a single step from files instead of making an image first. I'm not aware of any other software, commercial or otherwise, that can claim that capability. A fine piece of work all around.

For me this option is very useful it's permit to add in my software an option for direct burn an Windows XP folder without create an ISO file. If it's possible to add this, it's great for me, and another person I suppose !

I have an idea for simply support audio file with ImgBurn ! Foobar2000, it's a free project of audio file player. With this freeware, it's exist a optional components for burning CD Audio, but this optional components use Nero ! If a person create a Optionnal Components for Foobar with support ImgBurn, it's great ! I make a demand on official forum of Foobar but anybody make it !

@lfc, DVDInfoPro can create iso images in the same way DVD Dec used to. @Rosco, It would help to see the log from this failed verify of ISO1 so I can see exactly what's changed and where. ISO3 would be different from ISO1 + 2 because it has a totally new filesystem. Remember it's not reading sector by sector here (as other 'image' building tools would do), it's looking at / reading the files and then compiling (building) a new ISO from scratch.

Is there a way to use .REG keys to uncheck/remove StartUp entries in Microsoft Configuration Utility? i.e. is there a common Registry key/branch that contains this information? Or, is it impossible except on an individual basis, depending on where the software installs a key? What I want to do is, if possible, have a .REG key that unchecks/disables/removes a given checked "thing" that starts on StartUp, controlled by MCU. Such as zlclient, a common one added by ZoneAlarm. [ No, I don't want to disable that, and, neither do you! ] Then, I can just create a shortcut to silently import the key and put that shortcut in the StartUp folder of the Start Menu. That way, any updates, new versions, etc. that re-add them will be taken care of on each start of Windows. Thus, I won't have to worry about them. Similar to keys I've already developed to keep MY settings, such as my default CD/DVD players, etc. Thanks!

I get this when I run two at a time: I 16:45:51 ImgBurn Version 2.0.0.0 started! I 16:45:51 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 16:45:51 Initialising SPTI... I 16:45:51 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 16:45:51 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 2 DVD?RWs! I 16:54:31 Operation Started! I 16:54:31 Building Image Tree... I 16:54:31 Checking Directory Depth... I 16:54:31 Calculating Totals... I 16:54:31 Preparing Image... I 16:54:31 Checking Path Length... I 16:54:31 Image Size: 3,747,184,640 bytes I 16:54:31 Image Sectors: 1,829,680 I 16:54:39 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:08 I 16:54:39 Operation Started! I 16:54:40 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 16:54:40 Source File Sectors: 1,829,680 (MODE1/2048) I 16:54:40 Source File Size: 3,747,184,640 bytes I 16:54:40 Source File Volume Identifier: JJ_LIKING_YOURSELF I 16:54:40 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! © 2006 LIGHTNING UK! I 16:54:40 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 16:54:40 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 16:54:40 Destination Device: [0:0:0] _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A 1.Y6 (D:) (ATA) I 16:54:40 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: TYG03) (Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x) I 16:54:40 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496 I 16:54:40 Write Mode: DVD I 16:54:40 Write Type: DAO I 16:54:40 Write Speed: 8x I 16:54:40 Link Size: Auto I 16:54:40 Test Mode: No I 16:54:40 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 16:54:40 Filling Buffer... I 16:54:41 Writing LeadIn... I 16:55:27 Writing Image... W 16:58:38 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 16:58:41 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 16:58:43 Writing Image... W 17:01:38 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 17:01:43 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 17:01:46 Writing Image... W 17:02:20 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 17:02:25 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 17:02:31 Writing Image... W 17:05:19 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 17:05:23 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 17:05:30 Writing Image... W 17:06:02 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 17:06:04 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 17:06:12 Writing Image... I 17:07:34 Synchronising Cache... I 17:08:01 Image MD5: 25122e0c5a313762f2ce0db1726e35b7 I 17:08:01 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:13:21 I 17:08:01 Average Write Rate: 5,040 KB/s (3.6x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,743 KB/s (6.3x) They both seemed to come out OK !! My tired ole puter, been doing a lot of stuff to try and correct: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=67828 I usta do dual burns, with out a hicup, burning is the only issue. Everything else is fine, I can do dual transcodes with Shink or Clone without a problem (if I want to just create iso). Burin singles is my best bet, but I have had singles fail in the past. If it keeps actin up a NEW PS will be next I guess. I've added a cooler, which did it's job, but I think it was as LUK mentioned .... cables or power distribution ... at least for the failed burns .... haven't had one since redistributing power to the drives and adding the cooler .... the was the closest it came ... I was expecting it to fail .... AX @LUK ..... 2.0 is lookin good, don't need Nero anymore .....

OK, but how to tell the AV app (namely Kaspersky AV over here) to leave alone ImgBurn.exe? No matter if I select Skip or Discard it is blocked again next time I run it. So right now I'm not able to start ImgBurn at all. EDIT: I managed to add ImgBurn.exe as an object to the "exclusion list", so it works fine now. BTW PE Builder has anything to do with PECompact? Because Kaspersky AV itself utilizes this application to create a Rescue Disk...

This time I really will answer my own question. I borrowed this from a DVD rebuilder change log: ...Also note IFOEDIT will incorrectly see the changes to the IFO for padding as offset errors. Do NOT perform an IFOEDIT "Get VTS Sectors" against a VIDEO_TS folder that has been built for ISO unless you are planning to use some other burning package to create the disc... I notice jdobbs turned off padding as the default.

Anybody ever see Bowling For Columbine? Guns in safe hands of responsible owners - maybe. But when they get into the hands of kids (disturbed or otherwise) - no thanks Last time I looked, you didn't need a gun to kill masses of people either - just the political will to create a lawless society. For example, in Rwanda, machetes killed almost a million people in a few months of State sponsored genocide. And, while we quoting stats, our murder rate per capita with firearms is miniscule (as is that of the UK) compared to the USA. Up 300% probably means (without having examined Shamus's links) up from 2 to 8 in a year (that is of course a morning's "work" in the barrio of LA or in NYC). I think I'll take the no guns, thanks. And, I don't need a gun to feel safe. When I leave the home for a short period, I often leave the door unlocked, garage door up (with my car in plain view - also unlocked). I'm pretty sure you can't do that in "the safer society" where "citizens" have guns. Regards

True, but if is anything like me, he would just be more careful about it is all. You know what they say? Its only illegal if caught..LMAO! So in a happy note, Luk or whoever wrote it...good job man! I always had trouble create psl files and importing them. So thanks for making it very much easier. Hell I havnt used anydvd in months now since its release. No need. The only time I crank anydvd on is when inserting music cds, so I dont get that nasty root kit on sony cds LOL! Also luk thanks for imgburn. My nero dont even get used anymore unless I watch dvd. I always seem to get better burns on even the crappiest media.

Hello, I create a little application like nLite, it's named Cr?ateurXP and it's a freeware. For the moment my soft is in beta stage and not in public release, but the public release gone in a ferw weeks. I would like include the best program for burn iso file : ImgBurn, directly in my soft. It's possible to include it ? If yes I add licence agreement of Lighting UK and link to your site, and other if you want !

Any chance that V2 will have the option to stamp all files to a user-specified date and time, similar to Nero? Currently I have to use a patched together approach of stamping date/time with Powerdesk after BEFORE telling PGCEdit to create an ISO, and then I have to temporarily change the system date and time right before creating the ISO to get the same date stamp on directory entries. I do this for when I re-author DVD backups...

"The instruction at "0x7c80d189" referenced memory at "0x7815ecdf". The memory could not be read." I am also getting the above message only since I updated to 1.3.0.0. Have now gone back to 1.2.0.0 doesn't seem to create the error on closing. But has not stopped the ImgBurn error read message when I use Ulead VideoStudio SE 8. It comes up at the end of convert and start of actual burn of disc or creation file. Nero has a problem but just freezes computer now and I don't know for sure that these problems are related. Robert

I will be waiting for the next release of ImgBurn, as it is the best burning program I have found! DVD Rebuilder which I use for most of my DVD work has the option to create a ISO file and then burn with ImgBurn. This combination in my opinion can not be beat. I paid for Nero and have been let down by the (BUGS!) LIGHTNING UK! and JDobbs will always have my support as well as the makers of PgcEdit, VoBlanker and the many other Freeware utilities. I would be the first to purchase any software from LUK as he has proven himself. Thanks and good luck to LUK!

No Run under HKCU. The other key doesn't really appear to be of much use without some advanced programming to search the Registry. I suppose I might be able to create something in WinBatch to get the keys and compare them to a list, deleting entries if found. Then, updating the code would be just as easy as inserting a name into the list. I was hoping, so, should have known better that there might be a list of everything that has ever appeared, ala the way MCU's StartUp ACTUALLY works and that there would be keys with 1 or 0 or the like for on and off. Like the check boxes in MCU. Microsoft idiots! But, this gives me something to try. Thanks!

Next time, use something in keeping with your avatar. Just create posts that read BOOBS I wonder how this looks: B BS or B BS or B BS or to get really weird B BS B BS B BS B BS B BS

Hi Lightning, Thanks for getting back to me I've used a certain program called dvddecrypter. Maybe you've heard of it Just kidding Well, at least that would explain why I can't even access the disk at all after having "burned" it. I could open and extract the ISO without any problems (using winrar; that eats about anything ). I can try to create a new ISO, but how do I know if it's ok then? I've tried to run imgburn in test mode, but although I customized imgburn for that (choosing BenQ as the drive and imgburn returning that the setting was changed succesfully), when I try to do it the program returns the message that testmode is not possible and that it will be an actual burn. I don't want to spoil the costly DVDs if I can prevent it, so is there a way to check the ISO and MDS are ok? Thanks for your help PS Somewhere else it is suggested to use CloneCD, and not dvddecrypter & imgburn because the latter wouldn't be capable of handling my copy attempt; would you happen to agree with that (probably a stupid question since you're the author of these two programs )

ImgBurn doesn't make MDS files (or at least not in version 1.3.0.0) - unless you secifically use the 'Create DVD MDS File' option in the Tools menu. That option would create the same MDS file that very same function in DVD Decrypter would do. If you already have an MDS, there is no need to use ImgBurn to create another one. The MDS files created via that 'Create DVD MDS File' method DO NOT contain layerbreak information and so are worse than any that are created automatically by any other means.

Well, unintentionally, I've been on one for 5 years. Personally, I'd rather have a date! Or, to feel my feet again. #39;( BTW, remember I have saved the lady. Several times over the years. Wish I knew who she was. So I could find more of her, maybe? Anyway, so, I should always have a backup on hand. Kind of like the first data disaster I have had since 1997, which made me implement a backup scheme that has worked well. What happened was I lost 17 days of live data due to an error on a disc that contained a backup. What I failed to realize at the time was, yes, Drive Image verify MAY pass after it writes a file to HD. BUT, AFTER you burn the Drive Image to discs, you need to MANUALLY run the verify on the new copy. What I discovered was MS-DOS 6.x is an idiot. It's definition of "format" the target drive actually means FDISK and destroy any existing partitions, create one large partition, and THEN format it. So, that destroyed my HD partition of daily backups. HOWEVER, I had made the to disc backup copy of the most recent backup first. I felt so smart, but, I was kicked in my smart arse by the ultimate, cosmic smart ass. So, I had to restore from my monthly to disc copy, 17 days earlier. What I discovered I had lost, though, or so I thought, was something I thought I didn't have a backup copy of! The only time I've ever seen my first girlfriend in a partial state of nudity because of a topless photo she sent me years later. But, as it turned out, I had a DVD-RAM formatted temporarily with a packet writer for a temporary backup. And, amazingly, the file WAS contained there. So, now, there's a copy, a copy of the copy, an archived copy of the copy, backups, and friends who have copies so I can get it from again, should I need a parachute.

What is the file ext. of this file? Eg. .iso .bin .txt etc. And how did you create it? what software did you use? hi, i used dvd shrink 3.2 and its an .MDS file. the problem i think i have is when i format the disk through imgburn, it finishes formatting then when i go to burn it, it pops up and tells me there is almost no space available on the disk, i think thats where the main problem is. All i am doing is testing out this software with a short film. when i tried again last night, in dvd shrink, instead of having the compression setting at automatic, i set it at custom, so i shrunk the file even lower, so the had to be enough space on a totally empty disk.

Hard to tell what you're talking about here exactly... ImgBurn can BURN/WRITE images of any size really - depending on the size of your blank media of course! The next version of ImgBurn (version 2) can BUILD images from files on your hdd... yes it can do UDF only, and will allow you to create big images by splitting them (if needed) on FAT32 drives etc.

What is the file ext. of this file? Eg. .iso .bin .txt etc. And how did you create it? what software did you use?

To set the Book Type on my Plextor 740A, rather than set the drive tab to Plextor, I set it to Benq. My 740A is after all a "Benq" drive. This allows me to change the Book Type for +R, +RW & +R DL. Following any change the new booktype is correctly shown as the current booktype. Presumably this is successfully changing the booktype. *IF* I could successfully burn a DVD+R DL I could read the disc to be certain, but I have had no success thus far. Plextor 740A w/ firmware v1.02 (the latest) Maxell (actually a "RITEK") DVD+R DL "Saving Private Ryan" from folder on HDD Burning with PGCEdit and IMGBurn, I can create an ISO version that is reported as "Okay". Also, when mounted it plays perfectly. However, with several attempts at burning to DVD, I have created a DVD that fails verify, but seems to work, another that fails to play some of the "specials" and another that stopped writing halfway through the burn. The disk is more than 99% full, so the only suggested location for the Layer Break was the midpoint of the DVD where it is located on the original disc. I left this location unchanged. I have switched to Verbatim DVD+R DL media. This was what I wanted in the first place but couldn't find any at the local stores. So far I haven't tried burning with the Verbatim as I wanted to do some more research first... Any suggestions as to what I should try next are GREATLY appreciated! Tom