mwg Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Hiya. I am helping with the development of an open-source utility to build xISO files (xdvdfs_tools), this is, ISO files with xbox file format for game backups. ImgBurn is the tool of choice. However, the last addition to the program is to build double layer isos, as similar as possible to the original. The program calculates the layer break sector, and this requires the user to manually specify it in imgBurn. I've been trying to make a MDS file containing this info but i haven't found much info about this file format (and i guess you can't just give it to anyone who asks). I recently found out cloneCD makes .DVD files, which imgburn supports, and those are plain text files with the file names of the image chunks. And the first line contains the layer break sector, so i thought i could use this .dvd file format and open it with imgburn. I made a dvd movie dump with cloneCD to check this .DVD file format, the first line has LayerBreak=[layer break sector number]. When i tried to open it with imgburn, it didn't work, I guess it expected to get only filenames not this LayerBreak line... Will imgBurn support getting the layer break from .DVD files? maybe it's a new addition of the .dvd file format, I dunno, but it would help a lot! or, any other suggestion? Excuse my newbieness and bad english. #39;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I was actually the one who started CloneCD using .DVD files. Trouble is, I then progressed onto MDS and it stuck with .DVD. Back then, DL weren't around and so there was never a need for the layerbreak value to be put in the file. I will look into adding support for this newer type of .DVD file and it'll be in the next release. Oh and you guess correctly, I can't give out the MDS file format info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwg Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 I was actually the one who started CloneCD using .DVD files. Trouble is, I then progressed onto MDS and it stuck with .DVD.Back then, DL weren't around and so there was never a need for the layerbreak value to be put in the file. I will look into adding support for this newer type of .DVD file and it'll be in the next release. Oh and you guess correctly, I can't give out the MDS file format info Thanx a lot mister! Interesting to know it was you who started with .DVD files... if you implement it, i guess other programs could also benefit from it, like pgcEdit. i'm glad i don't have to use MDS files honestly, it looks like a lot of data and i only want to specify the layer break! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 In theory, you could just pass the normal .dvd file via the /SOURCE CLI parameter, and also use the /LAYERBREAK CLI parameter. Of course that doesn't help if you're not running/calling ImgBurn from within your own program! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwg Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 In theory, you could just pass the normal .dvd file via the /SOURCE CLI parameter, and also use the /LAYERBREAK CLI parameter. Of course that doesn't help if you're not running/calling ImgBurn from within your own program! that's what i thought, doing it the pcgedit way, however the program is a small CLI program which doesn't save any config file or stuff like that (since it needs no config i think) so the user would have to specify the path to imgburn everytime, or have imgburn in the PATH env. variable, so i'm sticking with .DVD files. There's some nice dude who made a GUI to it, i think the GUI is the one who should call imgBurn, but that's "another story". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 You could just read the install dir from the registry - or the gui person could. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ImgBurn\ Name = 'InstallDirectory' Take that and stick a '\ImgBurn.exe' on the end of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwg Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 You could just read the install dir from the registry - or the gui person could. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ImgBurn\ Name = 'InstallDirectory' Take that and stick a '\ImgBurn.exe' on the end of it D'oh! i should've figured that out Thanks for your help, come visit us if you ever happen to need any xbox backup done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I visited xbox-scene once and made a suggestion regarding Qwix. No response......and it seemed like a reasonable idea. Now you're attempting to do what I suggested with Qwix. I'm having a deja vu moment. <deja vu moment off> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevdriver Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Shamus, a deja-vu moment.................. Had one of those last night......... thought I know her from school........ she was soooo friendly...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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