Making ISO images

joelsanderson wrote on 2/10/2005, 4:57 PM
Hi. Is there any way to "burn" to an ISO file instead of actually burning to a CD? Maybe some sort of "virtual cd-burner" that would look just like a cd writer to Vegas? This way I could give a client an ISO for him to duplicate his CD from rather than me making a CD and then him making copies of that.

Thanks

-Joel

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Chienworks wrote on 2/10/2005, 5:05 PM
Not that i know of. Of course, you could always rip an ISO image from a burned CD. Just out of curiosity, what is the benefit of having the client burn from an ISO as compared to burning from a master disc? It seems like it would be just the same effort and absolutely identical result either way.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 2/12/2005, 6:05 PM
No benefit for a client, but I would love to be able to miss out two sets of errors (write + read) when making an image for duplication from Vegas or CDA

geoff
Chienworks wrote on 2/12/2005, 7:03 PM
Well, depending on how you deliver the ISO image, wouldn't that also involve a write and a read? In fact, if you ship the image on a CD, wouldn't it be exactly the same number of writes and reads?

If you're planning on transmitting the image electronically, you could also transmit the WAV files electronically too.
joelsanderson wrote on 2/13/2005, 10:23 PM
Thanks for your replies. I haven't found any way to do it either.

The reason I would like to do this is because there is a possibility of data error with burning a cd then him making copies of it. If there is an error on the first disc then all his discs will have it unless the CD-ROM caught it first. If I could burn an ISO file to disc I could also include an MD5 sum of the file so after he copies the file to his computer then the ISO file could be verified for it's validity. The reason I don't want to send WAV files is that the software he would use to burn the discs may not be Red Book compliant.

I'll probably just have to give him a CD to copy from, but thanks anyway.

-Joel
drbam wrote on 2/14/2005, 6:09 AM
For less than $100 you can purchase a Plextor Premium burner which includes Plextools software. You can fully analyze any disc and print the documentation of the disc's errors. With this burner and decent media, you will typically average around 10 C1 errors (or less) which is so low its not even worth discussing.

drbam