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What is an ISO file in relation to DVD burning?
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Awsomoniu
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26. January 2009 @ 05:17 |
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Google isnt being helpful, i only found technical explainations. I think i have a basic idea. tell me if i'm right or correct me if i'm wrong please.
Is an ISO file a type of file u make with a burning or ripping program. and that it what is burnt onto a blank DVD and would play like the original DVD when put into a dvd player. eg if the video_TS files were copied to the dvd not in an ISO format, it wouldnt work on a dvd player but if it was ISO for mat it would work?
Is that right, if not could u please post an explaination? In simple terms with no technical stuff?
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AfterDawn Addict
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26. January 2009 @ 06:29 |
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I understand an .iso file to be similar to a zip or rar file inasmuch as all the information that comprises the original DVD folders and files is now in a different format.
The burning program simply takes the information in the .iso and writes it back to a DVD in the conventional manner.
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AfterDawn Addict
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26. January 2009 @ 06:30 |
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My editorial comments have been removed. My apologies, they were not necessary.
An .iso is a standard (standard is the operative work) format for an optical disk image file.
"Is an ISO file a type of file u make with a burning or ripping program. and that it what is burnt onto a blank DVD and would play like the original DVD when put into a dvd player."
This is essentially correct.
The point of an .iso file is that the format that it uses is a defined and accepted standard, which make it easy for any vendor to implement/recognize/create files in that format.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 26. January 2009 @ 10:21
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Awsomoniu
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26. January 2009 @ 07:59 |
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thanks, sorry about the punctuatiin, i've never been that great with full stops :p i just tend to make huge sentences.
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haskins69
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26. January 2009 @ 08:14 |
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acualy your wrong about the only thing you can do is burn it
you can play it with VLC media player
and you can mount it with a program like daemon tools and play it on your computer
so before you jump poor guy's shit be sure you know what your talking about
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haskins69
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26. January 2009 @ 08:32 |
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Also you could simply burn with magic ISO , ultra ISO , power ISO , and most burning programs
or you could go the hard way and open ISO with a ISO program and extract video TS file and burn it with clone DVD and many other programs
and you folk's who bitch about periods and commas,ect...
need to get over yourself's and learn to read instead of bitching so much if you put time into reading instead of bitching you'd be done and past the post in half the time
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vballstud
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26. January 2009 @ 10:15 |
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DVD ISO's are also recognized and can be played like an actual dvd on a modded xbox. The fact that it is functional would seem to indicate to me that it is a compressed image file. Just like you can have a ghost image of a Hard Drive, an ISO would be a ghost image for a CD or DVD.
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26. January 2009 @ 11:39 |
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An ISO is simply a container, or suitcase if you will. It contains your video structure...VIDEO_TS folder and AUDIO_TS folder, which in turn contains the proper files for playback in a standalone unit. These being your IFO's, VOB's etc. There is no compression that I know of and the reference attar made to zip files and rar files is not to infer that there is some sort of compression applied to the ISO, but rather that an ISO is a transport vessel like a zip or rar file. You can use an archival program to look inside the ISO to see the actual video structure.
You can burn the ISO or you can burn the VIDEO_TS and the end result will be the same. There is no need to create an ISO if all you have is VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS as you can burn these straight to your disc with Imgburn, Nero or your favorite burning application.
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Duramax06
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28. January 2009 @ 15:51 |
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is there any difference in quality of an ISO file to AUDIO/VIDEO TS FILE? Why would you choose one over the other?
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AfterDawn Addict
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28. January 2009 @ 16:39 |
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Either is acceptable. If you already have the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders creating an ISO (which is simply a container) isn't necessary.
Loco's post (above your own) lays it out pretty nicely.
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