An ISO extraction program no bundleware no shareware

[loninappleton]

I am in ISO hell. Have seen Baldrick's suggestion for ISOBuster and some other things. I just want to extract one ISO via freeware as simply as I can. Drag and drop. Done.

The content which plays via drag and drop in VLC seems to be a standard DVD with menuing. I just want the content and not the menuing.

Thanks for any advice.

[Ai Haibara]

A program which takes an ISO and extracts video-only might be a slightly tall order, considering at the basic level, ISOs are just standard disc images, and could be a backup you've made of an old Microsoft Word install disc, as much as it could be a copy of a DVD. The program would probably have to be able to tell the difference.

That said, since an ISO is just a disc image, you can always mount it as a disc, using virtual disc software like DaemonTools (I've forgotten the names of the others, and I think DaemonTools is less-recommended, these days...), drag/copy the files on the disc to your hard drive, and process them to get the video alone, as you prefer.
Also, many archiving handlers (WinZip, Power Archiver, IZArc, PeaZip, etc.) actually treat ISOs like they would a regular ZIP archive; you can open the ISO using one of those programs, and just extract the files wherever you prefer.

[usually_quiet]

I think I have seen DVDFab Virtual Drive and Virtual CloneDrive recommended as alternatives to DaemonTools for mounting ISOs. Maybe VOB2MPG could work with a mounted DVD ISO for copying the video and audio to mpg, but I have not tried it.

[johns0]

Use dvdshrink.

[loninappleton]

Use dvdshrink.

DVD Shrink is a tool I know but have not used in this way.

[loninappleton]

A program which takes an ISO and extracts video-only might be a slightly tall order, considering at the basic level, ISOs are just standard disc images, and could be a backup you've made of an old Microsoft Word install disc, as much as it could be a copy of a DVD. The program would probably have to be able to tell the difference.

That said, since an ISO is just a disc image, you can always mount it as a disc, using virtual disc software like DaemonTools (I've forgotten the names of the others, and I think DaemonTools is less-recommended, these days...), drag/copy the files on the disc to your hard drive, and process them to get the video alone, as you prefer.
Also, many archiving handlers (WinZip, Power Archiver, IZArc, PeaZip, etc.) actually treat ISOs like they would a regular ZIP archive; you can open the ISO using one of those programs, and just extract the files wherever you prefer.

I made a long quote here because of once again many utilities discussed to do one thing.
I have no awareness of Daemon Tools.

I use IzArc frequently. Does IzArc extract the contents to a folder in the same manner as a zip file? I see ISO's so rarely and usually use them from a cd.

It doesn't have to extract video only so long as I can perceive act one act two and act three
from the file size and extensions. If TS files all the better since Handbrake can encode those to a different size.

I will do a practice run with IzArc by using the usual method of Select All and Extract, to which a folder is created by the program. That's my extent of knowledge of its use with zip files.


Thanks for prompt reply.

[loninappleton]

A program which takes an ISO and extracts video-only might be a slightly tall order, considering at the basic level, ISOs are just standard disc images, and could be a backup you've made of an old Microsoft Word install disc, as much as it could be a copy of a DVD. The program would probably have to be able to tell the difference.

That said, since an ISO is just a disc image, you can always mount it as a disc, using virtual disc software like DaemonTools (I've forgotten the names of the others, and I think DaemonTools is less-recommended, these days...), drag/copy the files on the disc to your hard drive, and process them to get the video alone, as you prefer.
Also, many archiving handlers (WinZip, Power Archiver, IZArc, PeaZip, etc.) actually treat ISOs like they would a regular ZIP archive; you can open the ISO using one of those programs, and just extract the files wherever you prefer.

I made a long quote here because of once again many utilities discussed to do one thing.
I have no awareness of Daemon Tools.

I use IzArc frequently. Does IzArc extract the contents to a folder in the same manner as a zip file? I see ISO's so rarely and usually use them from a cd.

It doesn't have to extract video only so long as I can perceive act one act two and act three
from the file size and extensions. If TS files all the better since Handbrake can encode those to a different size.

I will do a practice run with IzArc by using the usual method of Select All and Extract, to which a folder is created by the program. That's my extent of knowledge of its use with zip files.


Thanks for prompt reply.

[Ai Haibara]

VOB2MPG could work with a mounted DVD ISO for copying the video and audio to mpg, but I have not tried it.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if VOB2MPG could be run on a physical disc or a mounted virtual disc. MakeMKV could probably do it, though.

I use IzArc frequently. Does IzArc extract the contents to a folder in the same manner as a zip file? I see ISO's so rarely and usually use them from a cd.

It should be able to, assuming IZArc is set to maintain the folder structures present in the archives when extracting. I'm nowhere near a Windows system at the moment, so I can't be of much help with IZArc's settings, unfortunately.

[LigH.de]

Simply unpacking an ISO as if it was just a file archive? 7-zip can do that. But only for ISOs with included file system; DVD video content in UDF FS should match these criteria. CD Audio tracks will not (but they won't be stored in 2048 bytes-per-sector ISOs anyway).

[usually_quiet]

VOB2MPG could work with a mounted DVD ISO for copying the video and audio to mpg, but I have not tried it.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if VOB2MPG could be run on a physical disc or a mounted virtual disc. MakeMKV could probably do it, though.

I ran an experiment this morning. I installed DVDFab Virtual Drive, created and ISO of a DVD from my DVD recorder with ImgBurn and mounted it to the virtual drive, then ran VOB2MPG on the mounted image. VOB2MPG worked perfectly with the mounted image.

[turk690]

I just want to extract one ISO via freeware as simply as I can...

Try freeware Virtual CloneDrive, from slysoft.com. Installing it creates a virtual drive on your computer, and right-clicking on a valid DVD ISO image file (which you say is what you have) causes ISO file to be mounted and behave as if you have the DVD inserted in the virtual drive. You can now examine the VIDEO_TS folder and fish out the VOBs.

[loninappleton]

Use dvdshrink.

This has been a good solution. I have the two parts from the ISO now in VTS/VOB form from DVD Shrink.

Auto Gordian should pick these up. But can Handbrake find them as a file? Or other tool to
encode as MKV which allows me to reduce the size.

I'm going to make a test using the AGK in advance of any other replies.