.cue burning

[franomania]

im a newb obviously....i downloaded a movie and what i got is a .cue file and a .bin file. i want to burn it so i can watch it on my dvd player...but i dont know how to nor do i know what kind of cd to burn it to (ie...cd-r, dvd-r/+r) i have nero burning rom but everytime i try to open it up, an error pops up and it closes and i cant fix this problem. Is there any other way?

[redwudz]

How big is the BIN file? The CUE is just the 'pointer' to the BIN. If it's ~4GB, it's a DVD, if ~700, it's a CD format. Either way, in Nero, under 'Recorder', select 'Burn Image' and point Nero to the CUE file. That's all your really need to do, along with putting the right media in the burner to burn it to disc.

If Nero doesn't recognize it, you might want to extract the file out with a program like ISOBuster. Then you can do something with it. You can also play most BIN files with VLC media player, if you want to see what it is. Or Daemon Tools can mount it so it acts like a disc and plays.

And welcome to our forums.

[franomania]

the bin file is 755 mb. ive watched it using daemon tools...but i want to burn it so i can watch it on my tv/standard dvd player. my nero is not working, how else can i burn it?

[mats.hogberg]

Burn to CD-R with burnatonce.

/Mats

[franomania]

but cd-r's only have 700 mb :S

[franomania]

btw....burnatonce wont even load up the cue....like it says load new image...i click on the movie .cue and nothing happens, it still says no image loaded :S

[redwudz]

Sounds like there may be something wrong with the BIN/CUE file. You could extract it with ISOBuster. Select 'Extract but Filter only M2F2 Mpeg frames' and you should get just the the MPEG video. At least that's one alternative if you can't burn it directly.

It sounds like a SVCD. I've burned those with a size of 830 MB on a 70 Minute CD. It burns the video without the error checking files that normally take up quite a bit of space on the CD.

[mats.hogberg]

Open the cue in notepad - what does it read?

/Mats

[franomania]

its just blank when i open in notepad

[mats.hogberg]

No big wonder nothing happens... There should be some text lines in the cue that tells the burner app what and how to burn, along the lines of

FILE "IMAGE.BIN" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
  INDEX 01 00:00:00

Try getting an app named makecue that is rumored to recreate a missing cue for a bin.

/Mats

[franomania]

hmmm i dunno if im doingthis right....when i open isobuster, i go to file, open image file, then click on the cue...it said a bunch of **** and i clicked okay, now ive got an .ibp file and an .ibq file. i dont know why? is isobuster 1.9.1 a recent version?

[redwudz]

With ISOBuster you want the BIN. As mentioned the CUE is just a few lines of text. Look at it this way, after all this, you will know several ways to do this the next time it comes up.