IMGBRN Not Seeing ISO As Expected

[TomBrooklyn]

I'm having trouble trying to burn an ISO with ImgBrn.

I made the movie The King's Speech into an ISO, apparently (I usually rip to files, and I'm not even sure how I wound up with an ISO.)

I also have an MDS file (movie name.MDS), which is something I've neither seen nor heard of before.

So I got Daemon Tools and mounted the ISO and tried to get ImgBrn to burn it. ImgBrn finds a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO-TS subfolder in the ISO.

That doesn't make sense to me because I thought ISO files were one big file and not comprised of subfolders.

I can't get ImgBrn to load up the source.

I want to burn it to a DL disk without compression. ImgBrn recognizes the blank disk in the Destination section.

DVDShrink is able to recognize and load up the ISO. I don't want to use Shrink though, as it doesn't back up to DL disks.

[Ghitulescu]

Just open the MDS with ImgBurn (in the main screen it's called Burn image file to disc or similar).

[Chetwood]

ISO is one big container, that contains other files, often video files. And of course does Shrink burn DL discs, you only have to set ouput size to DVD-9 in preferences.

[CWR03]

You should also be able to right-click the ISO image in Explorer and select "Burn with Imgburn". You may need to unmount it from your virtual drive first; you certainly don't need it in a virtual drive to burn it.

You're seeing files because you have it mounted as a virtual drive.

[TomBrooklyn]

Thanks to all for the assistance.
Just open the MDS with ImgBurn (in the main screen it's called Burn image file to disc or similar).
Hi, that's simple enough, and it's working. I thought I tried that, but I guess I didn't. Thanks.

What's an MDS file, anyway? I don't recall seeing one of them before. I usually encode to files though, not an ISO. I might have encoded this with with DVD Rebuilder Pro a while ago and had "Create ISO" checked.

Shrink burn DL discs, you only have to set ouput size to DVD-9 in preferences. Oh, OK. Good to know for next time. Thanks.

You should also be able to right-click the ISO image in Explorer and select "Burn with Imgburn". You may need to unmount it from your virtual drive first; you certainly don't need it in a virtual drive to burn it.
You're seeing files because you have it mounted as a virtual drive.
I just realized I have the movie in a folder with VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subfolders; plus I also have it in an ISO version accompanied by that MDS folder. I'm not sure why I wound up with both.

Anyway, right clicking on any of those isn't giving me an ImgBrn option. Also, I can't see any subfolders in the ISO, as I stated above. That makes sense. I'm not sure what I was looking at before.

I can see subfolders in the mounted ISO as you stated. That's probably what I saw before.

Right clicking on that, however, I actually get an ImgBrn option--to "Read using ImgBrn."

[Sparktank]

For DL/DVD9 material, an MDS file is usually created automatically.
It's an index/catalog file for image software to properly read the ISO file.
It's generally created when the normal ISO image exceeds DVD5 specifications.

It's the equivalent of having a .CUE file in music for a single image of a WAV file or FLAC, APE, etc.

Whether you're going to use the ISO image in Daemon Tools or ImgBurn or any other software, it's strongly advised to load the MDS file.

As long as the MDS and the ISO file have the same name, the software will read the ISO contents properly.

I believe if you open the MDS in a text editor (Notepad++) or a hex editor, you should be able to see some sort of catalog of the contents within the ISO image.