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This will cover making a Dual Layer ISO on your Hard Drive. Firstly make sure your Vob, Ifo and Bup files are in a folder called VIDEO_TS then open ImgBurn in Build Mode and choose the folder option in the source box, and navigate to the folder you stored the files. When you have chosen the folder you require it should look like the picture above. Then press the Calculator and you will see a similar window to this, where you should choose the layer break. The best option here is the one on the right that says 'No' in the SPLIP column. Then press 'Ok'. The Legend at the bottom also indicates the best choices. At this point go to the options tab, choose ISO9660+UDF Next go to Labels and enter the name of your ISO in both fields. Next go to Advanced -> Media and ensure you have selected the appropriate profiles for the media you're intending to write to. If the estimated size of the image exceeds that specified in the 'Single Layer' -> 'Maximum Sectors' box, the program will know you're building a double layer ISO and configure itself accordingly. This is where the 'Double Layer' profile then comes in. If you do not select the correct profile you may have problems with the layer break when you burn the ISO file. Next choose your destination, and press the Build Button (Highlighted in the red box). The Layer Break choice window will appear again at this point. Normally you shouldn't worry about ticking the 'Don't update IFO/BUP files' box, and you should definintely not tick it unless you have prepared IFO's in advance containing layer break info. Press 'Ok'. You will then see this window. Press 'Ok' and the programme will start building. Then just wait a few minutes (system dependent) and your ISO and MDS will be ready. Remember to choose the MDS file when you eventually burn this ISO as it contains the layer break information.

I forgot that you had mentioned about Dell not installing half height Bay's anymore. Yes the limitation is on the external burners after all! They will not go a certain speed I guess unless it said on the box when you bought it that it was 24x capable. if it didn'tsay that on the box when you bought it they will not go that speed at all the drive when it comes out the manufacturer has to have the ability to go that speed and then coupled with the blank they'll both figure out if they'll go up to that speed together that's why I mentioned that they must have a contract with verbatim because they suggested using their brand with the writer that I bought and also it came with that burning suite that I mentioned before. I've used the suite and that's the one way I say it sounds like it's ready to take off from an airline ramp! LOL! Image burn shows me the speed as it's going in progress though and that's a big big plus! so that's why I could look at the speeds when reading and like I said yesterday it went up to 19 on the read rate so I wouldn't be surprised that it went more or less to 24 on the write rate. I will check that out with some Data. You know that I'm trying to burn DVDs as data, how would I go along doing that? I don't think it takes away from the structure does it? Imgburn will automatically see it's a DVD and create an image during build mode then burn it. I used to be able to burn as data and still be playable.

Yes, I should have been clearer before about the Create CUE File function. That won't create BIN/CUE files, just CUE files that write the converted audio files directly to a CD-R as an Audio CD.

Depends on what you're intending to do. Are you trying to create BIN/CUE from discs with WAV files on them or are you trying to create audio CD's from the WAV files on these discs? If you're trying to create BIN/CUE from discs, use the Read mode in ImgBurn. (If you select in the settings to create .CCD files for Virtual CloneDrive/CloneCD, then you won't get BIN/CUE but IMG files.) If you're in the EZ Mode Picker, you'll want the Create image file from disc option. If you're trying to create audio CD's from the WAV files, you'll want the Create CUE File option under Tools.

I tried using the obvious "Create Image file from files/folders" option. However, when I selected the .bin and .cue file and hit the "build" button, the resulting ISO didn't behave like a disk at all. When I mounted it, it just appeared like a folder. Inside were just the old .bin and .cue files. This is supposed to be for some software, so when I mount it I should either be able to see all the files inside (like the installer/executable/etc) or it should automatically open up some kind of installer. There is the possibility that the .bin and .cue files were screwed up somehow, it's easily over 2 decades old. EDIT: Solution. I used Virtual CloneDrive (free software) to open the .bin file. Worked fantastic! Just like mounting a normal ISO file.

Yeah, I'd just do what you did and use Virtual CloneDrive to mount the CUE/BIN (I forget if Virtual CloneDrive supports CUE files. If not, it would support BIN. I don't use BIN/CUE. I have ImgBurn create CCD files which Virtual CloneDrive does mount, but it creates IMG files I think that CCD points to.) file without needing to convert to ISO. But, if you really wanted an ISO, you could mount the CUE/BIN file as a virtual drive and then use ImgBurn's Read mode to read the mounted virtual drive to a new ISO file. I think you could also have used UltraISO to load the CUE file and save it as a new ISO file, which I probably would have done, but UltraISO requires a license and isn't free.

Because I didn't know how to create a cue file for the 3 bin files, but I've learnt Let it buuuurn, ohhh let it buuuurn. Thanks

Yes. Your question was how to create a cue that burns 3 bin files. You don’t need to create one, you already have/had it. Just burn it.

The short answer is you don't. You can't burn multiple BIN files to a CD-R as far as I know. It might be possible to do different tracks/sessions, but ImgBurn won't do it, as far as I know. That's inferring each BIN file is an Audio CD with its own tracks. About all you can do is extract each audio track as an audio container file and add each track to a new CUE file with Create CUE file for burning 1 CD. However, that CD may be too large to burn to a CD-R.

From reading all this, what seems to be the case is that ImgBurn "supports" CD-TEXT only if you punch it in yourself. I don't create audio CDRs just to play them but to catalog my very large music collection (into Music Collector), which means that despite ImgBurn's "support" of CD-TEXT, it's easier for me to dub my songs onto CDRs (from wax, vinyl, tape or whatever) from some simpler burner like the one offered by NCH and then punch them into my catalog program myself. Why did you guys include this feeble version of CD-TEXT in this otherwise powerful program, anyway?

Hi, try this: It should be what you're looking for. You may need to install the WV WavPack mentioned in one of the replies. I'm guessing WV was meant to say WAV. Now, if you have 150 CD's that you've made WAV's from, I'm guessing these 150 CD's are source audio discs? If so, you might want to just make backup copies of the original discs to CD-R's. You'd want to use the Create image file from disc and then Write image file to disc for this.

Trying to copy Queen GHits I/II on CD-R. CD 1 wrote successfully, CD 2 failed, see images and error log below. I've seen the posts regarding use of Ritek/CMC discs but disc 1 wrote okay: I 16:45:31 Source File: E:\CDs\queen1.cue I 16:45:31 Source File Sectors: 263,057 (AUDIO/2352) I 16:45:31 Source File Size: 618,710,064 bytes I 16:45:31 Source File File System(s): None I 16:45:31 Destination Device: [0:0:0] TSSTcorp CDDVDW SU-208FB TF01 (D:) (SATA) I 16:45:31 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m26s66f, CMC Magnetics Corp.) I 16:45:31 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 10x, 16x, 20x, 24x I 16:45:31 Destination Media Sectors: 359,844 with a Source File Size: 618,710,064 bytes where disc 2 fails with Source File Size: 804,012,384 bytes, even though the time is only 76 minutes (see image). So the question is - if the source file size > 700MB, it's gonna fail no matter what 80min CD-R I use, right? If that's the case, then this is a bug report as that should be reported by ImgBurn before the write is attempted. So how does one create a copy of this disc? Do I have to find 800GB CD-Rs? Thanks Toby PS - the image files (cue/bin) were created by ImgBurn reading the retail discs right before I tried the write. PPS - this is on Lenovo laptop I 17:54:47 Source File: E:\CDs\queen2.cue I 17:54:47 Source File Sectors: 341,842 (AUDIO/2352) I 17:54:47 Source File Size: 804,012,384 bytes I 17:54:47 Source File File System(s): None I 17:54:47 Destination Device: [0:0:0] TSSTcorp CDDVDW SU-208FB TF01 (D:) (SATA) I 17:54:47 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m15s17f, Ritek Co.) I 17:54:47 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 10x, 16x, 20x, 24x I 17:54:47 Destination Media Sectors: 359,843 I 17:54:47 Write Mode: CD I 17:54:47 Write Type: SAO I 17:54:47 Write Speed: MAX I 17:54:47 Lock Volume: Yes I 17:54:47 Test Mode: No I 17:54:47 OPC: No I 17:54:47 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 17:54:48 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 4,234 KB/s (24x) I 17:54:48 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 17:54:50 Writing LeadIn... I 17:55:23 Writing Session 1 of 1... (17 Tracks, LBA: 0 - 341841) I 17:55:23 Writing Track 1 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 0 - 19701) I 17:55:47 Writing Track 2 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 19702 - 37474) I 17:56:07 Writing Track 3 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 37475 - 63216) I 17:56:33 Writing Track 4 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 63217 - 81371) I 17:56:50 Writing Track 5 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 81372 - 100736) I 17:57:06 Writing Track 6 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 100737 - 129854) I 17:57:31 Writing Track 7 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 129855 - 148574) I 17:57:45 Writing Track 8 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 148575 - 167261) I 17:58:00 Writing Track 9 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 167262 - 189509) I 17:58:16 Writing Track 10 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 189510 - 210049) I 17:58:31 Writing Track 11 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 210050 - 232166) I 17:58:45 Writing Track 12 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 232167 - 250764) I 17:58:58 Writing Track 13 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 250765 - 268626) I 17:59:10 Writing Track 14 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 268627 - 285196) I 17:59:21 Writing Track 15 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 285197 - 303864) I 17:59:33 Writing Track 16 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 303865 - 323636) I 17:59:44 Writing Track 17 of 17... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 323637 - 341841) W 17:59:49 Failed to Write Sectors 327876 - 327902 - Reason: Write Error W 17:59:49 Retrying (1 of 20)...

Excuse the delay. Yes that's what I was trying to convey. They seem to be having all sorts of problems with ConvertXToVideo as is noted by stopping by the VSO forum and looking at all the posts. You just might be on to something about that move. I hope they don't pull a fast one under any circumstances. Very difficult to get a respectable software in this genre. So yes I would have to hit the merge function as it sees the separate VOB files as titles. Even when it's an episodic DVD and say it has 6 episodes on one DVD, it just won't copy over to MP4 as is. It will divide that also and I would need to merge that as well to keep them together on one disc. Why should I have a 40-45 minute episode on separate discs? Not only that mp4 doesn't support menus. At least I don't think it does. I was able to copy over the main menu VOB and include it in the output mp4 file, though it did just that. Copy it over w/out any functionality. It would of been nice to have that main menu function straight away so you could easily pick a chapter/title from an episodic DVD. Matter of fact I think to include such a short clip like a menu, you would have to lower the limit on input file size to zero. Well VidCoder will also create separate mp4 files for episodic DVDs. For a normal DVD with Chapters it will pass it through in one title set. Though if it senses that each individual VOB file is a mini title, even though it's a chapter, it will create separate mp4 files as well. It is stupid! I'm wondering if MKV files do that? MKV is just not a different container. You could do a whole slew of things with it nowadays. Only thing is player support? I have a proggie that will include multiple audio/video files in the same container as MKV. I had my whole collection in MKV, though player support kind of forced me to switch over to mp4, hence this big project since day one. Don't buy ConvertXtoVideo right now is my suggestion. See what transpires with the move etc... Look into Cyberlink's Power Director or even if Wondershare has something similar to Filmora. Now that i think about it, I think it's a flaw dividing up chapters like that, and so it might just be the container's specs. Power2Go also divides up DVD Chapters into separate MP4 if I think it's an episodic DVD. I forgot, though now that you brought it up it's been a pita for a long minute now! I've been trying to work around this specific issue forever it seems! Hence the conversion to a solid MPG file then to MP4. Let me know what you suggest about this, and if some other program/programs don't do that? Thanks. I had to Merge my El Capo Season One DVD discs because of this, or have 6 separate mp4 files on 1 DVD. Yup very stupid!

Hi Lightning/BTM's, Have you ever thought of incorporating an ISO create mode. No decryption involved, simply an image creator like Coujo's ImgTool Classic? If asked before, my apologies. Mig$y

So, you're saying if a title set has chapters in it, ConvertXToVideo will create a separate MP4 for each chapter? That's useless and a pain! I want an entire movie as 1 title set, not 20 separate MP4's I have to merge.

Are you saying ConvertXToVideo won't make the same kind of DVD menu that ConvertXToDVD does when you use ToVideo to make a VIDEO_TS? Meaning, the VIDEO_TS just starts playing the moment the disc starts? If it does, I can still use ConvertXtoVideo to import a BD, create a VIDEO_TS, then use that VIDEO_TS as input in ConvertXToDVD to create the kind of menu discs I'm used to.

I've been trying to find out what is it exactly that's going on with ConvertXToDVD and BD file. I've thrown in some Blu-ray Rip's that were an mp4 file and had no problem re-encoding them with the subtitles put in. That's different, oh than a total Blu-ray file. Now if ConvertXToDVD does not include Blu-ray files when they say Convert X, which means that Blu-ray is not included in that X, then you're right they might want others to buy a different software for that. Listen you could get around all this simply by using the new VidCoder which will grab Blu-rays, DVDs, or whatever whether in disc form and not and convert it to an mp4. Yes I know it's the same thing as what you were doing before but maybe actually might just be simpler. Now I have the ConvertXtoVideo software and I'm not sure if putting in a Blu-ray folder would include everything. I do know that when you put in a DVD and it might have separate titles on that DVD it gives you an option to merge all the titles and then convert into whatever format. I've been using the MP4 format so I don't know if it will do that with the DVD format because remember DVD will only take so much compression and what not. Next time Matilda Blu-ray folder file or whatever inside convertxtovideo go to any plus signs or whatever that are on on the main interface and see if you can click and see whatever else it attached to that file. If it did then just right to it and see if you have an option to merge everything together to that one file and create a DVD out of it. Try the trial of ConvertXtoVideo and see what happens with a Blu-ray to DVD conversion. I would do it on my end but I don't have any true Blu-ray files or folders with me. I'm having a similar problem with VIdcoder. I put in a DVD folder and it actually has four, five different titles on it in vob files. Now since I didn't check the window next to the first file I didn't know that they were actual titles in there and so when I encoded the DVD folder it actually just encoded the first title. so I have to include all the titles into the encoding job at the bottom in the queue. Only thing is it will output seven different MP4 titles without merging them. Convert X to video does a real beautiful job of merging all the titles and converting them to MP4. It actually stays with the original audio and video resolution as well. So you just might want to look into that ConvertXtoVideo and check it out. if you do decide to get it, go straight for the recent Beta version because they fix the hardware encoding optimization option. It is buzzing now where before it was only at 30 frames per second I'm getting 230.6 frames per second from DVD to MP4 conversion. VIdCoder is 64bit and using multi-threading. It really is about the best freeware h.264 encoding app out there.

Yes I feel your frustration believe me! Convert x to DVD is plain and simply a quick fix to get a DVD out of some other file, though it does have its limitations. What you can try to do is when you load the Blu-ray folder see if there's an option to merge all the files together right there and then that are in the input window. Right click and see if the option is there. Also go into the settings and see if there's a setting that maybe the default has for just picking main title. Another thing you can try is in the editing window where you can add subtitles and audio and all that click on the plus sign next to the video and see if you can add something else and just throw the whole file in there and see what it will pick up. There's an option in CyberLink Power2Go to create Video DVDS. If it's included with your PC definitely give it a try. It will convert and burn your M2TS folder to a DVD Video VTS folder. VSO sent me the download link to another version or whatever because it wouldn't convert a regular Blu-ray mp4 file that I had which it should have no problem with.they said the issue was with the hardware optimization and so they said that the version they sent me should fix that. It's full of bugs! Many many bugs! And I already suggested to them to just update the most recent version and forget about all those old versions because they're wasting a lot of time and all that. That's what Windows 10 did basically they just playing around with newer Hardware making it better to work with. I have yet to install it because I'm playing around with the new VidCoder which if you haven't got a chance you should install and give it a try because it's really banging! WinXDVDAuthor is free. Give it a play. It works very well when it works.

I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to create an image from a DVD.

I use Rufus for burning existing ISO's to flash drives. You could use ImgBurn to create an ISO destined for a flash drive in Build mode, but the actual burning would have to be done by Rufus. As was said, it's probably easier just to use the Windows Media Creator Tool to download and burn its ISO to a flash drive.

U don't, with imgburn. It can only create discs or iso's. Use the windows 10 media creation tool (that's one of it's options) or Rufus. Take your pick Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 6P met Tapatalk

No wonder you have a monster build! Dell too which I'm a fan. Believe me it's because of your build that ConvertXToDVD is buzzing! You have six cores and that means all six will be working on anything you do, especially single file inputs. If you want you could put upto six different input files, though ConvertXToDVD will not put them out individually. It will think you're creating a DVD out of all of them. If small sized yes you would have a very decent DVD output. You're lucky! You have Cyberlink software that came with your Dell. Power2Go is usually included in there as it is part of their products line. If so, open it, go to Video Disc option and select the AVC H.264 mp4 output to DVD disc. You're going to love it! It will take those Home movies and create a very nice playable M2TS file on DVD which is awesome. I found them exactly like that through bundled software that came with my LG Burner. All night I was fussing with a Blu-ray 1080p file that for w/e reason ConvertXtoVideo erred out, as did another software. It's an unusual file because although that it's Blu-ray, it's in 1920-800p instead of 1920-1080p. These programs have a flaw because it shouldn't matter what the original input is, it should convert it to whatever. I had to throw it inside ConvertXToDVD and put out a DVD. I wanted a MP4 file with burnt in subs so I could use Power2Go and convert it to DVD Video. Their outputs are better because of the TrueTheater etc... Way to go with the Dell! I might be wrong, though I think Intel might just work better with these programs. If for no other reason than they first created CPUs, for the most part.

Ok now the program I was alluding to concerning the 1080p file is ConvertXtoDVD. It will support any incoming file or non-protected disc to convert to DVD. Are you converting your Blu-ray titles into MP4/MKV before throwing that into ConvertXToDVD? There's no need as you can put the Blu-ray folder/file into ConvertXToDVD and straight away have it make you a DVD. The only thing you can't import is commercially protected disc, DVD or not. Everything else it mainly imports including Blu-ray containers. Unless you have more than 4 cores on your rig, there's no way a 90 minute movie unless Avi or other than 1080p/Blu-ray will pop out in 1/2 an hour. ConvertXToDVD especially with full high-definition 1080p Blu-ray files will not hover over 40 FPS during conversion. The faster it processes any file, and the only way it can do that is by upping the FPS during conversion, the faster you'll get the output DVD folder etc... ConvertXtoVideo is nothing but ConvertXToDVD in reverse kind of. It will take w/e file and convert it to w/e file, including a DVD. What I suggested was looking into Power2Go which as I mentioned does import MP4/MKV etc... and create a Blu-ray file that burns to DVD disc in the M2TS folder using the AVC H.264 codec. You're converting original Blu-ray folders into MP4/MKV correct? Then converting that to DVD? You could either throw that ripped Blu-ray straight into ConvertXToDVD or take that same Blu-ray folder and convert it to a playable AVC file on DVD. This way it'll play since Sony plays as is and DVD is playable. How much smaller do your Blu-ray files get after MP4/MKV conversion? ConvertXToDVD as I mentioned will almost add 2GB to a 1GB mp4 when finished processing to DVD. ConvertXToDVD also as I've read has to be closed after a while and a cleaning must take place in our PC, as it does collect remnant leftovers and then slow down. I just finished doing that earlier after I posted those slow FPS speeds. It went up to about 35 FPS, and still took more than a half hour to output the DVD file. I'm definitely going big on my next build to see the difference if any. The source file determines ConvertXToDVD speeds, not the build as much as it seems it should.

VSO has as I see an output default size for certain sized source files. If the source video is @ 2GB or a tad more, then their resulting DVD VTS Folder will be 3.94 GB or a tad less. So that's about 2GBs more than the source file. That'll almost always put it higher than a 4.7GB blank. Maybe I'll put 2 related source files on a DVD. It'll work out the same as using a DVD DL and adding more to that. I tested my external LITEON during a copying session, and let's just say I'll be using it more as a burner. It buzzes past my LG internal, though it was hooked up to ImgBurn. The LG was using another app. I have to load both burners in ImgBurn with comparable sources, and see how they fair. I'm waiting to see how LITEON'S external Blu-ray writer fairs. It hasn't been out that long. If you want to check out a Conversion app that surprised me and I have it, checkout Power2Go. I tested the Video to AVC H.264 Blu-ray conversion and it buzzed through with an exceptionally great looking M2TS file in the BDMV folder. Their conversion from .mp4 etc... to DVD VTS is also faster and with exceptional output as well. Only thing no subtitle support, which I'm beginning to not mind much during conversion, and more towards afterwards in the same folder as you suggested. I wonder why none of the usual suspects in Video Conversion, Burning, Editing, etc... don't create some software that'll either snatch the sub out of the file or somehow create/get the correct fitting one to include with source?

Right click one of the problem files once you've added it within the 'Create CUE File' feature/window. Pick the option to display the directshow filter list (if it lets you) and let me know what it says please. There must just be something weird in the file that your filters can't cope with. Removing the (ID3 etc) tags sometimes solves issues like this.