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Horseshit. That's about the most stupid and ridiculous statement I've had the misfortune of reading. Is Nero a ripper? What about UltraISO? MusicMatch Jukebox? Do any of these programs remove Macrovision? What about ARccoSS? Doh! The word "ripping" applies to copying discs, whether they are protected or not. People "ripped" CDs when they had no protection at all. Removing protection and "ripping" are two different things. ImgBurn can rip "non css dvds." It's a ripper, whether or not you want it to be. Words have meanings. You can't say it's not a ripper, when it can create ISOs and burn files. It doesn't defeat any copy protection, but it can and does RIP discs. I stand by what I said. Nothing you have said in any way refutes what I said. I think you're getting the point. Creating ISOs and burning files makes it ableto "rip" things. Ripping doesn't have anything to do with removing protection. They are separate issues. People tend to confuse them. Windows Explorer can't create ISOs or burn DVDs. So get a clue before you hurt yourself. You've given an analogy that doens't even hold up. I repeat. Nothing you have said in any way refutes what I said.

A security researcher with expertise in rootkits has built a working prototype of new technology that is capable of creating malware that remains "100 percent undetectable," even on Windows Vista x64 systems. Joanna Rutkowska, a stealth malware researcher at Singapore-based IT security firm COSEINC, says the new Blue Pill concept uses AMD's SVM/Pacifica virtualization technology to create an ultra-thin hypervisor that takes complete control of the underlying operating system. Rutkowska plans to discuss the idea and demonstrate a working prototype for Windows Vista x64 at the SyScan Conference in Singapore on July 21 and at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas on Aug. 3. The Black Hat presentation will occur on the same day Microsoft is scheduled to show off some of the key security features and functionality being fitted into Vista. Rutkowska said the presentation will deal with a "generic method" of inserting arbitrary code into the Vista Beta 2 kernel (x64 edition) without relying on any implementation bug. he technique effectively bypasses a crucial anti-rootkit policy change coming in Windows Vista that requires kernel-mode software to have a digital signature to load on x64-based systems. The idea of a virtual machine rootkit isn't entirely new. Researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Michigan have created a VM-based rootkit called "SubVirt" that is nearly impossible to detect because its state cannot be accessed by security software running in the target system. Now, Rutkowska is pushing the envelope even more, arguing that the only way Blue Pill can be detected is if AMD's Pacifica technology is flawed. "The strength of the Blue Pill is based on the SVM technology," Rutkowska explained on her Invisible Things blog. She contends that if generic detection could be written for the virtual machine technology, then Blue Pill can be detected, but it also means that Pacifica is "buggy." PointerRead more here about Microsoft's moves to hardens Vista against kernel-mode malware. "On the other hand?if you would not be able to come up with a general detection technique for SVM based virtual machine, then you should assume, that you would also not be able to detect Blue Pill," she added. "The idea behind Blue Pill is simple: your operating system swallows the Blue Pill and it awakes inside the Matrix controlled by the ultra thin Blue Pill hypervisor. This all happens on-the-fly (i.e. without restarting the system) and there is no performance penalty and all the devices," she explained. Rutkowska stressed that the Blue Pill technology does not rely on any bug of the underlying operating system. "I have implemented a working prototype for Vista x64, but I see no reasons why it should not be possible to port it to other operating systems, like Linux or BSD which can be run on x64 platform," she added. Blue Pill is being developed exclusively for COSEINC Research and will not be available for download. However, Rutkowska said the company is planning to organize trainings about Blue Pill and other technologies where the source code would be made available. Rutkowska has previously done work on Red Pill, which can be used to detect whether code is being executed under a VMM (virtual machine monitor) or under a real environment.

But they also comment that effectiveness of the "blue pill" may have something to do with Pacifica design flaws, right? I infered that Intel chips might not be as susceptible. Or may be they are. The article could have used better editing. If you are talking about the part that states; "AMD's SVM/Pacifica virtualization technology to create an ultra-thin hypervisor that takes complete control of the underlying operating system." I didn't take that as it not affecting Intel systems. I took it as they are using a technology developed by AMD to make this piece of malware.

I'm having a very strange problem. When I create a DATA dvd with imgburn I can only read the DVD from the drive I burned it with. The DVD is not readable on any other PC. The DVD is not readable even on the SAME PC (different drive) It is only readable on the drive it was burned with. Its a very strange problem. However, I don't have this problem with vSO CopyToDVD. I'd love to get his fixed in imgburn.. I've been waiting so long for this feature

If you are talking about the part that states; "AMD's SVM/Pacifica virtualization technology to create an ultra-thin hypervisor that takes complete control of the underlying operating system." I didn't take that as it not affecting Intel systems. I took it as they are using a technology developed by AMD to make this piece of malware.

Like a new model of car, best give Vista at least a year before installing it. By then most of the major fuck ups should be fixed (which'll create new ones, natch). By then the security companies will surely have developed ways to detect and defeat this "Blue Pill" rootkit. The article isn't clear--or maybe I just don't know enough--but it seems to imply that Intel-based systems wouldn't be effected Did I read it incorrectly?

Thanks DVDFAB Video Manager creator works great. Would have been great to have it all in one tool tho. Perhaps we can still persuade LUK to still consider it as a requirement to create ISOs

We at Doom9 forums are looking into a experimental layer break format (IE seamless) similar to the way that Superbit DVDs do their layer breaks. What essentially it looks like it does is causes the buffer to remain full enough so when a layer break occurs that there will be no pause or skip as occurs with most layer breaks and most home DVD players. Rolz the developer of PGCedit has added to a beta of his code to make layer breaks seamless with a option set. Using decrypter to burn with manually adding where the layer break occurs (calculated from the sector id used in PGCedit to create the ISO) I have burned several dual layer disks. They all seem to work flawlessly on playback on my home DVD players with no pauses at the breaks. Using IMGburn or Decrypter for that matter and a regular non seamless break (flag 0 or 2 depending on if it is at the start of a vob or not) I would get a slight pause at the break (as expected from any dual layer). This is exciting stuff and I have some questions on IMGburn. First if I use imgburn to burn with the seamless flag on it seems to give a error saying incorrect format. If I set the manual break sector lba (as I do in Decrypter) would it work the same as decrypter and burn anyways and leave the seamless flag set? In any case maybe you could get with Rolz and discuss a way to be able to start imgburn and have it ignore that the break is seamless (like a runtime parameter that would also accept the layer break position)? Now I only have tested several titles due to the expense of dual layer disks, but so far every one burned with the seamless flag set works great in all of my players (no pausing at layer break). Discussion link: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=110426 To the rest of the forum: This is purely experimental and may produce coasters for some of your home DVD players (mainly older ones I would guess) so be warned. Thanks, Jamos

Consider the free version of DVDFab 0.17.0, which can create a basic video manager from a VTS. www.mrbass.org/dvdfab Regards

Hi! This is the first time I use the brand new "build" option of ImgBurn to create an ISO image. When I try to burn the image via the MDS file I got the following log, where it warns about a "L0 Data Zone Capacity Miscompare", even if the process finalilzes succesfully. Should I worry about this error? the dvd+r that I got seems to be correct. Thanks and congratulations for this software. Best regards, Errupin. I 13:02:51 ImgBurn Version 2.0.0.0 started! I 13:02:51 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 13:02:51 Initialising SPTI... I 13:02:51 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:02:51 Found 2 DVD?RWs! I 13:03:35 Operation Started! I 13:03:35 Source File: D:\DVD\WILLOW\WILLOW.MDS I 13:03:35 Source File Sectors: 3.887.536 (MODE1/2048) I 13:03:35 Source File Size: 7.961.673.728 bytes I 13:03:35 Source File Volume Identifier: WILLOW I 13:03:35 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! © 2006 LIGHTNING UK! I 13:03:35 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 13:03:35 Source File File System(s): ISO9660; UDF (1,02) I 13:03:35 Destination Device: [0:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D 1.06 (E:) (ATA) I 13:03:35 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: MKM-001-00) (Speeds: 2,4x; 4x; 6x; 8x) I 13:03:35 Destination Media Sectors: 4.173.824 I 13:03:35 Write Mode: DVD I 13:03:35 Write Type: DAO I 13:03:35 Write Speed: 2x I 13:03:35 Link Size: Auto I 13:03:35 Test Mode: No I 13:03:35 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 13:03:35 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1.943.775 I 13:03:35 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: Copied From Original Disc W 13:03:59 L0 Data Zone Capacity Miscompare! W 13:03:59 Wanted: 1943775, Got: 1943776 I 13:04:08 Filling Buffer... I 13:04:09 Writing LeadIn... I 13:04:10 Writing Image... I 13:04:10 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1943774) I 13:24:26 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1943775 - 3887535) I 13:44:50 Synchronising Cache... I 13:44:51 Closing Track... I 13:44:52 Finalising Disc... I 13:45:52 Image MD5: cd2fe5e8c7e434520260ecd66b9c7794 I 13:45:52 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:42:16 I 13:45:52 Average Write Rate: 3.187 KB/s (2.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3.385 KB/s (2.4x)

Do you still have the files you built the ISO from? If so, are they DVD Video files? i.e. IFO/BUP/VOB ones. During the initial build did you get a 'Create Layer Break Position' dialog box come up? If you did, can you please get it up on the screen again and take a screenshot of the window - perhaps with the same option selected that you selected when you actually built the image. Basically the MDS file is wrong and that probably means the padding for the layer break is wrong too. (Since v2 was released I've fixed a couple of bugs to do with 32k padding on certain sets of dvd video files. One of these bugs could indeed cause this padding problem.)

I have tried using ImgBurn to create a dual layer image with seamless layer break. Every time I mount the image in Daemon-Tools, AnyDVD says "This Video-DVD is mastered incorrectly. AnyDVD will be deactivated for this DVD." EDIT: This problem happens even if I leave the seamless option unchecked. I've never had this error before and have been using seamless layer breaks in the past through PGC Edit and just burning DVD Shrink Images. (They play fine in my stand-alone machines.) Any ideas what might be wrong here? SuperBit and many Criterion DVDs have seamless layer break, which proves that players can handle it. I've never seen AnyDVD report this problem with Criterion or SuperBit DVD titles, so this isn't normal. Something is broken.

Then it is not something for this Forum. ImgBurn is clearly working as it should. No, it's not. LUK admitted that it was a problem and someone in another thread said that it would be fixed soon. It's a problem caused by ImgBurn's Build Mode messing up DL images created from hard drive files. The problem is caused by ImgBurn and introducing mastering errors. If the images are not mastered correctly, then that is your problem or concern.It doesn't matter what program reports it. That's completely irrelevant. Either the images/discs are mastered correctly or they're not. I have found they are not mastered correctly when I create images from files on disk. That reduces my faith in the program and I'm sure others react the same. I will not use the program for creating dual layer discs until this issue is fixed. I think that is a valid position to take, unless you show my concerns are unfounded. LUK specifically told me that this thread was on-topic. You are totally off-base, and off-topic. The software is buggy and I'm not going to apologize for saying that it is. It works great if you don't care about dual layer. I would prefer that my discs not have mastering errors reported. That's just me, though. I'm not "going on" about anything. I added some information and you attacked me in a totally off-topic and hostile manner. If I am off-base, why are my posts not deleted? Maybe your 12 year old has a problem thinking for himself. Maybe you're just using hyperbole to make your points.

I was wondering, going a bit off topic. Is there something that can create MDS/MDF from an existing ISO or other image AND still write images to non NTFS partitions? i.e. create split images in that format when the image goes over 4 GB. UltraISO will, but, only with that klunky all but arbitrary .IBZ, I think it was, format. Thanks!

I don't see why it would take much time and effort. ImgBurn can read ISO files already. All it needs to do is look at the file sizes, like it does anyway, and create a new image structure. You can mount the image with D-Tools and use the root directory as your source in Build Mode. That will achieve the same result I'm talking about. But it'd be better if ImgBurn supported it directly. If you can read images, most of the work has been done.

Well, the NRG files I have tried to load are audio CD images I created in Nero. Is there a way to create an Audio CD image file in ImgBurn? If so, I will gladly do it (I tried to figure out how to do it but could not - everything wrote as data and not CD-compatible audio). The ISO files I tried were ISOs generated by so-called "NRG-2-ISO converters" and these apps did not allow me to specify the filesystem. Regardless, I guess if the original NRG is no good, the ISO that was the result of a conversion would be no good as well. I gave up on the TOC format since it's not widely accepted so I am no longer concerned about that one. If ImgBurn cannot build audio CD images, could you perhaps recommend an app (preferably free) that can? Thanks very much for your assistance - Brian Mc

I have a similar problem to that of the original poster, except that the error message refers to VTS_01 rather than VTS_05. I can't follow Cornholio's suggestion, since I didn't create the image, all I have are the MDS and I0x files. ImgBurn shows trhe following additional information: Imp ID: Sonic Scenarist 3.0 File Sys: ISO9960, UDF (1.02) Sectors: 3,459,555 (MODE1/2048) Size: 7,085,168,540 bytes Time 768:49:30 (MM:SS:FF) Is there a way to make the files burnable, or am I SOL? Thanks in advance, Unobtainium

Peter i can't answer for the Guv'ner, but all older versions of ImgBurn are not supported anymore. Development of the current version is the main priority, as it is with all programs and programmers. I personally know that LUK has been totally dedicated to the development of V2.0.0.0, and the time and effort he put in to getting it to release stage was amazing . If he allowed older versions to be hosted it may create several questions being posted in the forum which would only lead to confusion for everyone .

Any programs compatiable with Img Break..and if i create an iso with imgburn is that better than creating an image on dcd decrypter?

Thanks for your reply. I checked out the guide you have posted and have a question about selecting the layer break position. When the Create Layer Break Window pops up it shows numerous LBA's with the green stars and under SPLIP it designates them as N/A and No. I see in your guide its recommended to choose one with No, but how do you determine which one to pick. Also how do you pick up your screen shots, this would come in handy for posting of any problems. Thanks Perch

you shouldn't have made an iso with shrink, it can't create dvd9 iso's properly if you still have the video_ts folder files , then follow the guides on this forum http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showforum=4 ?

I've got another question (I think that there is no need to create a new topic) . About the layer break on the DVD... Is the layer break info different if I create a ISO (with the MDS file)? or is it exacly the same from the option to copy from the HDD files? This question is just my 1st post question but I'm always reading in different foruns and topics that you should create an ISO with the MDS file to have exacly the same LB info from the original disc. Should I? regards.

can u create a DVD with multiple videos and a menu on ImgBurn? If so how?

so if i create a menu with some other software i can burn that and the videos to a DVD using ImgBurn?

sorry no you cant but you can burn the files you will create doing what you are trying to do with imgburn