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I have a dvd ts file about 8 gig that I wanted to burn with ImgBurn (1.3) to a Verbatim +R DL. I converted the file over to an ISO with Foldert2ISO and then got ImgBurn to create an MDS file from this ISO. I didn't make any changes to the file either. I'm up to date with my firmware. What am I doing wrong to get a miscompare at LBA....offset....? Something to do with the layer break perhaps (which I have set to caculate optimal) cheers!

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

I suspected as much. You're welcome. :-) Now, all DVDMovie and all PS2 DVD images that I've seen are in 1.02 Bridge Format, i.e. contain an ISO9660 FS as well as UDF 1.02. This is detectable, but I'm afraid I cannot provide you with details on exacly how to program it in ImgBurn. Sorry to be using Solaris 9 (UNIX) examples here, I know you guys are likely MS Windows only but bear with me, these are very basic If I create a test UDF-image like this: 1. Create an ordinary file of 100M size called /tmp/test.iso 2. lofiadm -a /tmp/test.iso (this will create a block device called '/dev/lofi/1' pointing to the file) 3. mkudffs -r 0x102 --lvid=test --media-type=hd --u16 /dev/lofi/1 4. mount -Fudfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt *success* (udfs = ISO13346) If I take an image of any PS2 DVD, which ImgBurn will show as being UDF 1.02: 1. lofiadm -a /tmp/killzone.iso 2. mount -Fudfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt *fail* 3. mount -Fhsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt *success* (hsfs = ISO9660) So it sees that the latter image is Bridge Mode, it is mountable as an ISO9660 filsystem and I can access the files. But I cannot mount it as a UDF 1.02 filesystem. It would be very elegant indeed if ImgBurn can show this "Bridge" info as well in that tooltip! Cheers, /M

Shamus_McFartfinger wrote: > Please supply a download link for the software version numbers that are apparently being > misreported and I?ll have a play with it. Hm, I don't understand what you mean. Define "SW version numbers" in your context. Perhaps you're wondering where to find udftools 1.0.0b2 (or 1.0.0b3 which is the current)? https://sourceforge.net (just search for it). The b3 is very Linux specific, quite a lot of code re-write (cleanup) there compared to b2 so even though I got it to build cleanly after some work, I failed to get it to work on SPARC Solaris 8 and 9 :-( It crashes very early with a Segmentation Violation no matter what I do... Oh well. There are no functional changes between b2 & b3 anyway that I can see, and only the very odd bug that has been fixed. You might also mean links to ISO-image files containing the different versions of UDF: 1.02, 1.50, 2.00, 2.01, 2.50, 2.60 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format (note the passus about Bridge Mode in the text there.) I don't have that, you'll have to create such images yourself -- which is what I did using mkudffs -- and then try them out in ImgBurn. Cheers, /M

Hey, I created an UDF (ISO13346) image like so, with the Linux user space tools package udftools 1.0.0b2: mkudffs -r 0x150 --lvid=test --media-type=hd --u16 /dev/lofi/1 (This was done on Solaris 9 which has a loopback type file device, think "Daemon Tools" if you like) Now, when I load this image to look at it in ImgBurn 1.3.0.0, the tooltip says Volume Identifier: test Application Identifier: Linux mkudffs Implementation Identifier: Linux UDFFS UDF Revision: 1.80 That "8" is wrong, there's no such thing as UDF rev 1.80. Now, either this is a bug in mkudffs 1.0.0b2 (I have looked in the sources and see nothing) or it is ImgBurn that misinterprets what it reads out. I highly suspect that it is ImgBurn, because Solaris support rev 1.50 (only) when using native tools: mkfs -Fudfs -o label=test /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2 [...] If I create a similar image with -r 0x0102 or -r 0x0201 ImgBurn displays what I expect. But if I choose rev 2.50, i.e. -r 0x0250, ImgBurn displays 2.80 There's something fishy with this 5 vs 8... Cheers, /M PS. Thans for ImgBurn, great program one needs no other for image burning. Ever.

When I create an ISO DVD File and run Imburn 1.3, I set my Burn Speed at 12 and IMGBURN Burns it at 8 speed. I use Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-R Media Silver Thermal Lacquer TYG02 8 Speed Media. I can take the same ISO File using Nero 6 at burn it at 12 speed and it burns it in about 6 minutes and when I review the results with Nero's CD-DVD Speed Disk Quality I get Better results with the 12 speed burns. I have tried IMGBURN with the default SPTI - Microsoft Interface and with Nero's ASPI- WNASPI32.DLL and get the same results. However If I Set Imgburn to Burn at Max It Will Make it up 16 speed at the end on DVD and you can see the bad results more PIE Totals and the Jitter results start coming up at the end. So I Can't use MAX Speed in IMGBURN but I Would LIke To use 12 speed The Log file says it's set at 12 speed but still takes 8minutes to burn dvd and screen shows the highest at 8 speed. Is there something I over looking in Imgburn in the settings? #39;( spankie

Jaymac, An MDS is automatically created, I believe, when you do an ISO read to your hard drive. The MDS file is only really used for DL purposes and not SL purposes. LoL Am I even close at answering your question. There is an option in both programs to create an MDS file though.

I understand. Thank you very much for explaining! So, is there no way to create some kind of a checksum, in order to be able to verify the consistency of the data after some time when the ISO is no longer present on the Harddrive? Clavius

OK, I've gone through the nice and simple .ibq format (Saved Queue) (thanks for not using some obscure binary format, or using XML just cause it's a buzzword) And it's very usefull to be able to create my own .ibq file (now that the wierdness in the queue under 1.2 seems to be fixed (Thank You)) My only question is: Is there any way to autostart running through the queue if an ibq is on the command line? The combinations of /START /WAITFORMEDIA etc. I tried had zero success. Hey, those two clicks to get it started, are a REAL chore This is what I've determined is in the .ibq file, correct me if I'm wrong... A header line containing IBQ2 (Image Burn Queue Version 2 perhaps??) followed by a number of lines each containing Device|Speed|Copies|Delete|ImageFilename Device: Device Number (Zero Based) -1 for default. Speed: This seems to be the index number of the items in the speed drop down list, 4x is actually 4, but 56x is 17. again -1 for default Copies: Self explanitory except that 0 or -1 become 1 when the ibq is loaded (if you don't mean to burn the thing, don't put it in the file ) Delete: Delete image file when done, 1 = Yes, 0 = No ImageFilename: path to the image (now there's a real stretch ) If it doesn't exist or isn't a valid image the program complains, but still loads the rest of the list. ie: IBQ2 -1|-1|2|1|\\Xrxdata\dvdbk$\APR19_01.ISO -1|-1|2|1|\\Xrxdata\dvdbk$\APR19_02.ISO -1|-1|1|0|\\Xrxdata\dvdbk$\APR19_EMAIL.ISO Burns 2 copies of and deletes the first two images, 1 copy of the last without deleting it.

Hello All, I have a system I use for burning backups for my XBOX. The process enables me to burn backups to DL media and be able to read them on both my PC and my XBOX. I use Nero to create the ISO, then I used DVD Decryptor, now IMGBURN, to burn the ISO. The reason I use IMGBURN is so that I can change my Book Type. I'm not exactly sure how everything stopped working, but for some reason, When I try to change my booktype, I get an "Unknown: FAILED!" Error. I have always used the Lite-On compatability Tab in the past. Would that have changes when I got the 810A burner? I am running the latest firmware version on my burner which is 1.0d. I have also just acquired the latest version of IMGBURN, which is 1.3.0.0.

unless there is another log file other than the one on the bottom of the prog i see little use for it as it says that all is well burn compleated successfully. And i can do a log of the errors on both failed discs. using dvdinfo. i have since downgraded to ver 1.2 and i am just now doing another burn so will get back on if that works ok or not. i might still be the firmware but would think that if it was then dycripter would create the same errors. ...If i can retrieve the log from the 1.3 ver let me know were it is and i will get it...

Welcome aboard. Many of us did the same thing you did. Lots of wandering. All of us are happy that L_UK took everything in stride and managed to create a new tool for us to play with and a forum for us all to talk crap...... I mean learn from. *cough*

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2136617,00.html The Sunday Times April 16, 2006 Max Headroom creator made Roswell alien Marc Horne THE creator of Max Headroom, a 1980s television cyber-presenter, has claimed he was one of the hoaxers behind the Roswell film, the grainy black and white footage supposedly showing a dead alien being dissected by American government scientists after a UFO crash. Alien Autopsy, a movie about the footage, is currently on release across Britain. It stars real-life television presenters Ant and Dec. John Humphreys, a sculptor and consultant on Alien Autopsy who has also worked on special effects for Doctor Who, said it was he who made the models for the alien dissected in the original fake footage. His confession, 11 years after the Roswell footage was first shown, will raise questions about the role of Channel 4, which unleashed Max Headroom on the world in the 1980s and bought the UK rights to screen the Roswell footage in Britain. The footage was first exposed as a fake by The Sunday Times, but an estimated billion people still watched it around the world. Rather than being shot in 1947 near Roswell in the New Mexico desert as previously claimed, the film was actually made at a flat in Camden, north London, in 1995. Philip Mantle, a UFO researcher and author who has been investigating the Roswell hoax for 10 years, said Humphreys had been a prime suspect but had never before admitted involvement. Mantle, who next month will deliver a lecture at Glasgow University on the Roswell story, said: ?I didn?t think it would take so long, but I am delighted this hoax has finally been exposed and the mystery has been solved.? Humphreys, who is based in Manchester, says he also appeared in the Roswell film as the chief surgeon. The bug-eyed alien models were filled with sheep brains, chicken entrails and knuckle joints bought from Smithfield meat market. After filming, the dummies were cut up and dumped in bins across London. For a few short weeks the world held its breath after the 91-minute silent film was unveiled by Ray Santilli, a London-based video distributor. He claimed to have bought the footage, shot on 14 reels, from a retired American military cameramen. Humphreys said the Roswell film was shot by himself, Santilli and three others. He said he spent four weeks fashioning the models from latex using clay sculptures. Humphreys, a graduate of the Royal Academy who has also created special effects for the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp, says he only told his wife about the hoax when he was hired to work on Alien Autopsy. ?It was a very, very strange feeling to know that I had played a key part in it,? he said. Santilli, who is played by Declan Donnelly in Alien Autopsy, insists he was trying to ?re-create? a real Roswell incident. He claims he bought genuine footage that was badly damaged when it was exposed to the air after 48 years in a can. ?John was given very precise images to work with and what he did was sheer genius,? he said.

G?day Dave. The easiest thing I can think of if your file associations are playing up is to delete the filetype altogether rather than trying to re-associate it with another program. So.. Delete filetype Reboot Re-create filetype Re-associate newly created filetype with program file (your icons may not appear until rebooting yet again.) Good luck.

Thanks. I read the afterdawn article. Strikes me as awfully weird. Not the article, but the concept. Why create an....ah...deliberate pain in the ass and then make it removeable by simply flashing the next firmware update? Am I the only that finds that a little redundant and lot a waste of time?

Hello all. Very nice forum you have here. Much information! So ... lemme get to it. This is a problem I've read about for the past 5 hours now in various locales across the internet. I own a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with a Matshita UJ-841S Super Multi Drive. I did a burn on a Verbatim DVD+R DL, and it went fine ... super actually. I then played the disc on my laptop and on my old desktop with no issues. When I got to my standalone player and my portable, I got nothing. Just spins. heh I've since learned that the issue is most likely in the Book Type. I need to be able to change mine to DVD-ROM in order for my other machines to play the dvd. Yeah. So, my Matshita drive isn't listed in the supported Book Type drives list, and I have to assume that my drive doesn't support booktyping then. Would I be correct in this assumption? And if so, will I also be out of luck when/if I go to burn a DVD+R? Erg. What a bummer. Does anyone know of any brands of standalone DVD players that will play this media? It seems rather silly to create a video disc that will only play on a computer. Should I just go buy an external DVD burner that supports booktyping if I choose to continue on this path? Thanks in advance for any input you have. Much appreciated. And despite my troubles, ImgBurn and Decrypter are mighty fine pieces of software.

Phatboy, Aside from Kenadjian's comments, here is a tidbit from me. I am, by far, not an expert in this, but do you have another application that you might be able to use to create the DL image file? I've backed up "Flightplan" perfectly fine, but only using a single layer. However, I've read in other threads that some applications don't create DL images properly (or as well as others). Perhaps if you used another application to create your image, you may have more success. Just a thought...

Hello I am creating a CD of my own music. I can burn the music to CD with Media Player but how do I create an image file to use with ImgBurn? Many thanks Andrew

I have my files on my pc in a video_ts folder. When i open IMG burn and locate the files, i get to the video_ts folder and inside there are a number of files ending in .vob and another one which i cant remember. Which of these do i need to select in order for me to create a disc with IMGBurn?? thanks!

Hola All, I know the ability to rip or create images from video DVD's got DVD Decrypter into trouble in the first place because of the "legal" issues. But are there any plans to put creating ISO image functionality back into ImgBurn without the video dvd decrypting support to avoid those pesky lawyers???? Gracias -here

A quick question if I reathour a disc with dvd shrink and create an iso image to burn and use calculate optimal layer break setting I assume that image burn will try to find the best position is there any need to use pcgedit first as when there is no layerbreak present pcgedit will only guess the best position for the break anyway . Would I be just using an unnecessary step as they are both trying to do the same thing

Ok ,maybe I see it differently , its a free program , I save all the releases to my hard drive and have done for a few years so I have all the IMGburn versions and a good few of others and if I have to revert back to one of those no big deal . I currently have 3 burning programs on my box and if by some reason 1 doesn't work then there's another and a disc is going to be burned one way or another . If this was commercial software I paid for then I would be upset if something didn't work. Nero has bugs and they fix them only to sometimes create others and the fixes dont happen overnight, YOU PAY and you wait . Img burn is always a work in progress always will be and problems occur ,show me anything in development that doesn't go through find and fix, bottom line is theres no program that doesn't go through it .The bugs will get fixed by LUK no doubt about it and with the addition of new features it will be the best, probably already is ..I remember another program he was involved with and it was and I'm sure still is the best at what it was meant to do and again FREE. Everyone has a job LUK included thats involved with IMGburn and has familys to support and as such cant spend 24/7 working on the program. I know my time is limited because of a hectic work schedule,the bills dont wait. This is LUK's baby and he releases the next version when he thinks its ready , if a bug is found so be it, if it was perfect then there would be one version and no others forthcoming ,its not, but that doesn't mean everyone isn't trying to make it perfect, we are. If you're short on patience then nothing is ever going to be fast enough or good enough and there is always going to be something that will F-up your day. Look at the bright side today IMGburn didn't fry any drives ,delete partitions , shift the earths axis or create any mayhem thats been attributed to it in past posts, tomorrow I'm not sure

you can do multiple clips with Shrink you would put the various clips on your HD in seperate folders .Then with Shrink you could open the browser find the clip(video ts folder and open it , shrink analyzes the clip ,then you drag and drop the clip from right to left under DVD structure go back to the DVD browser( drive where the clips are ,its next to the compression settings ) and you would do the same thing with the next clip and the next untill you have what you want then hit backup and Shrik will create an ISO of everything and you can burn that with IMGburn

How about .BIN files that have 2352 byte sectors? Programs like the old CDRWIN call these RAW images, and will burn all 2352 bytes for each sector. The author (Goldenhawk) in the help file suggested that this was only a good idea for 1st generation burns of a copy direct from the original. Otherwise one should allow the drive to write new ECC information in the area beyond user data (2048 bytes for mode 1/2336 bytes for mode 2) in each sector. I recall there were a bunch of programs that would "COOK" such an image to allow you to burn it with CDRWIN to allow your drive to create it's own ECC. These program would convert 2352 byte-per-sector images to 2048 (for mode 1) or 2336 (for mode 2) byte-per-sector images to accomplish this. So, what does ImgBurn do when one burns, say a 2352 byte per sector BIN image (single track of course)? Does ImgBurn simply disregard any bytes beyond the 2048 or 2336 of user data on-the-fly while burning? Or does it faithfully copy all 2352 bytes to each sector? I suppose the latter would be true RAW mode writing, so I'm assuming it doesn't do this.

huh? The DVD Authoring application I use (http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabpro.html) does not make "ISO images" (and I dont want it to, either), but simply creates a valid VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS structure in a folder on disk. Thus, I need something like bloated Nero to burn those files to disk. It already takes 10 minutes to mux a DVD project in dvdlab, I dont need another 5 minutes to create a ISO and then another 10 to burn it, if I could simply use <insert app here> and build+burn in one step (without creating temporary files).