Video_TS, Audio_TS -> .img

[jjabba]

This should be a really easy one to answer!

I've just completed a DVD project, I've authoured it and I've ended up with a video_ts and audio_ts folder.

Now I want to make a nice 4.3 Gb .img file.
I don't want to burn a DVD first, and then import it but rather covert the 2 DVD folders into a .img file right away.

Any suggestions?

[hamletiii]

your dvd authoring tool should be able to output iso/img file.
if not, you can try imgtool classic to output iso file from dvd root folder.

[jjabba]

your dvd authoring tool should be able to output iso/img file.
I'm using DVDReBuilder. I havn't seen such an option. Is .iso equally good as .img files? There must be some difference?!

[mpucoder]

iso is not recognized as a DVD image by Nero (and possibly others), but only as a CD image.

[setarip_old]

@mpucoder

Hi!iso is not recognized as a DVD image by Nero (and possibly others), but only as a CD image.Please clarify - as I've just now used NERO to both create a perfectly good .ISO image file of the DVD "Matador" (select "Image Recorder" rather than burner and then choose ".ISO" for format) and to burn a perfectly good DVD (select "Burn Image") of "Pal Joey" from an .ISO created by the "miksofs" program from within PGCEdit...

[mpucoder]

Maybe it's just the iso's I've used were intended for CD then (these were small sample DVD-Video and HD-DVD disks). Trying to burn them to DVD resulted in Nero asking me to replace the recordable DVD with a recordable CD.

[setarip_old]

@mpucoder

Thanks for clarifying that. For a minute, I thought I might be in possession of a one-of-a-kind, super special version of NERO ;>}

[jjabba]

...it seems .img has the overhand just as I thought.
So does anyone have a suggestion on how to make such a file from a Video_TS folder?

[setarip_old]

it seems .img has the overhand just as I thought.When read in its entirety, there is nothing in this thread that indicates that to be the case...

[jjabba]

Although one might arguee if there is really an advantage using .img images I have now found a way to create them from a video_TS folder.

Just download ImgTool Classic (make sure you get the classic version and not ImgTools Burn)
http://www.coujo.de/

Then start ImgTool, select yor DVD root folder. Then your image filename and choose .img as the filetype.

Enter a dvd label and your set. :cool: