Viewing ISO before burning

[bmoreravyns]

Is there a way to view an ISO file before i burn it just to make sure it is ok?

[guns1inger]

VLC can play back from an ISO.

Why create an ISO ?

[bmoreravyns]

More success rate of burning a DVD movie when you burn an ISO with Imgburn

[borax]

I'm pretty sure, that Imgburn will do an equally good job, if you just burn the VIDEO_TS folder. The only difference is, that Imgburn creates the ISO 'on the fly' (in RAM) rather than on the disk.

[AlanHK]

More success rate of burning a DVD movie when you burn an ISO with Imgburn

I've never had any problem just selecting the VIDEO_TS folder and burning that.
Possibly if you are doing lots of things simultaneously and your DVD drive doesn't have much of a cache, but you'd be likely to screw up no matter what method if that were the case.

When you're burning from ImgBurn you can see the caches: it's important that the burner's cache does not get to zero, if so the burn will be interrupted and you'll have a coaster. If you see it getting low, immediately stop any other disk or processor intensive processes and you might recover.

It also shows the hard disk cache, where ImgBurn is preparing the data to stream to the burner. That's not quite as critical, but if it goes down treat it as a warning and stop other activities.

[MysticE]

More success rate of burning a DVD movie when you burn an ISO with Imgburn

That's not the case.

[bmoreravyns]

I use Ulead DVD Movie Factory 6 Plus to author the dvd. I then save it on my HD as an iso which I burn with Imgburn. I am using VLC to test the iso file before i burn and the video and audio is good. After I use imgburn to burn the iso to a dvd, the video is fine on my pc and dvd player, but there is no audio. My question is, if the audio is there when I test the iso with VLC, where does it go when I burn with Imgburn? Thanks.

[AlanHK]

My question is, if the audio is there when I test the iso with VLC, where does it go when I burn with Imgburn? Thanks.

I think it means the audio is non-standard.
VLC can work it out, but actual DVD players can't.

Use GSpot on your VOB files and report what it says about the audio.

How are you making your audio?

[tomlee59]

VLC is a very capable player -- so capable, in fact, that it will play things that are not strictly compliant. So, it is very useful for playback of nonstandard, possibly broken, files. By the same token, it is not very good for testing the compliance of files to a standard (like DVD). So, merely being able to play an ISO with VLC is no guarantee that the burned result will play in a standalone player, for example.

Get info on the audio track and post the results here. There is also a small possibility that the audio is actually present in the burned result, but that your authoring tool has set the default to some silent track. You might be able to enable it with your DVD player's remote control.

[bmoreravyns]

From everyone's experience, which is better and more reliable? Making a DVD video from and ISO file or burning the Video_TS folder onto a blank DVD?

[grossjamesh]

It does not matter - by the time the data gets to the DVD its all the same.

[AlanHK]

Making an ISO takes 5 GB of disk space and is slower. No better result.

[lordsmurf]

A burner cache hitting zero is what buffer-underrun protection is for. It's not necessarily a coaster unless the drive sucks or the session zero's out for too long.