I am trying to backup a dvd using DVD Shrink and burn it to a blank dvd with ImgBurn. I think I understand the difference between 1) backing up the dvd to hard drive and 2) creating an ISO image, but I don't understand if you can burn with ImgBurn using either method or how they differ? Is the difference just that you have more flexibility in compression and options when you backup to hard drive? I tried searching the forum and searching the internet but still don't understand.
an iso is a disc image (basically the data on the disc packed into one file).when ripping to hard drive you can compress it,leave stuff out,edit it,change the format of video files.i just opened imgburn and had a look (i dont use it very often).click write image file to disc then select the iso and should burn the iso to disc.i use dvdflick to burn avi files to dvd.i use dvdfab to make a back up of a dvd.
easier way to make a back up on disc would be rip as an iso and burn the iso to disc.
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Quote:Is the difference just that you have more flexibility in compression and options when you backup to hard drive?
There's no difference as far as compression, etc.
The image or the files saved to a folder are identical.
Some media players on the PC don't want to playback from an iso file (preferring the folder) - but once burned to disk you have the same VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS structure on the disk from either method.
yes indeed.. I have had to show people time and time again that it is as easy to burn a working dvd as a data disk just containing the video_ts and audio_ts directories as go to all the trouble of making a pointless iso.. and quicker :)
Pointless? Yeah, right. Also, what kind of trouble is it to select "output to ISO" and get one file that can e.g. played back by VLC without prior mounting? And can easily be burned with ImgBurn?
i remember a few years ago backing up a dvd without making an iso.stuck the disc in my dvd player and it didnt play.it came with with 2 folders on screen audio ts and video ts.yes i could go into video and play each file manually but had i done it as an iso it would of played straight away and i wouldnt have to search through folders.
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An ISO image (and all the other disk image formats) is simply 1 file that is a full sized DVD that is ready to be written to a blank DVD.
The reason why it is around is that when CD recorders first came out the IO bus couldn't transfer data in 2 directions on 1 bus, IDE can have 2 devices per IDE bus, so if you have a HD and a CD recorder on the 1 IDE bus then you couldn't read/write files from the HD straight to the CD recorder.
The bus speed would slow down too much and the CD writer would stop recording and you'd end up with a dead disk as there was no recording skip like you have in all cd/dvd/bluray burners today.
So what you'd do back then was...
Have the HD and the writer on septate IDE buses, HD on primary and writer on secondary/slave
You'd have 2 partitions, the reason was you could easily delete this partition and defrag it fast and it'd be ready for a new CD image, also it'd be the same size of the disk you were going to write generally it'd just be 750 megs as CDs were only 70mins long = 700megs plus disk setup and post write CD data.
the 80min= 800meg CDs are only around because people found some writers at the time could do a over write on the disk thus giving some extra space.
You'd select all the files you wanted to be written then you'd make an image to the CD partition because it's a clean partition you will be able to read into the CD writer buffer quickly and hopefully the transfer rates will keep up with the cd writer, thus allowing you to do a complete disk with out it becoming a dud disk due to the data not being transferred properly.
These days with writers having 4 and 8 meg buffers on the drive and the software having 80meg ram buffers and the HD and SATA buses allows for 100's of megs of data to be transferred both ways on a single bus with multi devices on them, you generally don't have to worry about the image side of things anymore.
These days people generally use CD images simply to transfer the data quickly and easy via the net or USB drives etc.
