Burning multiple .MDF files to DVD

[henry13]

I downloaded a movie that is made up of 5 .mdf files, i.e. TITLE.mds, TITLE.mdf, TITLE.md0, TITLE.md1, etc. In order to burn to DVD, do the files need to be joined to one file, such as .iso? I discovered a program called "Split & Concat", which will join and split... but it apparently only joins the first 2 files (the 3rd, 4th files are ignored). Or can I simply drop all the files in Toast and burn without actually "joining" them??

[aedipuss]

try reading through this-

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic208896.html

[henry13]

thanks, I actually read that before I posted this. The problem I'm having is that "Split & Concat" will only join the first 2 files.. the rest of the 3 or 4 files are ignored. Any other ideas??

[guns1inger]

Did you rename the files ?

[johns0]

Copy the files to a windows pc and burn with alcohol 120,thats what splits the files that way.

[henry13]

yes, I renamed the files to read:

File.iso.001
File.iso.002
File.iso.003
File.iso.004

etc.. but it only takes the first 2 files and joins those. As I said, it ignores the rest of the files. Has anyone else had luck joining more than 2 files? Is Split & Concat capable of doing so, or maybe I'm just doing something wrong??

[henry13]

has anyone else had success with Split & Concat??

[terryj]

yes, but mostly with pieces properly downloaded and have passed a hash check.

Were these files part of an .rar archive originally?
if not, are you sure they were downloaded correctly?
if 3 and 4 are bieng ignored, chances are they are
incomplete and not passing a hash check....

[johns0]

The files need to be burned by alcohol 120!!!Simple as that.

[henry13]

does Alcohol 120 simply merge the files into one .ISO, so that I may drop it into a program like Toast? or does it actually burn all the files itself (TITLE.mds, TITLE.mdf, TITLE.md0, TITLE.md1), directly to DVD?

Thanks!

[johns0]

All the files will be burned to one dvd by alcohol as long as the file names are what alcohol named them,dont think it will merge them to a single iso.