I have video-DVD's located on my HDD, sub folder(s) VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS (audio always is empty) Structure: [Name of movie] \VIDEO_TS I would like to convert those to playable .iso files. Media player in the living room supports .iso What software should I best use. I came across gburner (usd.30), but could hardly find any reviews on that. Also found Convertx2DVD (usd.45), this one looks great. Am not sure ImgBurn can do this. It is nót burning data-DVD to iso but video-dvd. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Sorry can't help. I Googled it no soap. But what are playable iso files? I understand the English but I never heard of them. I only have experience with iso files for Linux & other OS. What else is iso file used for & why?
yes, you can do with it ImgBurn. How To Geek has an article about it. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13558/rip-and-convert-dvds-to-an-iso-image/
An ISO file is a disc image. It's not just for operating systems, you can also have an ISO of a DVD or an audio CD, for example.
With 'playable' .iso I meant that the (hardware*) media player, in the living room, can play those files as if they were 'normal' DVD's. So, they do not need to be 'extracted' to \VIDEO_TS folder etc. The media player is playing the the iso. (Probably it may be extracting it internally, I don't know) * hardware media player - I mean media players like Eminent EM7071 hdMEDIA High-Definition, Eminent EM7680 Mede8er MED600X3D, Eminent EM7680 etc.
Ah... right... Many thanks indeed! Really appreciated your adding the link. When doing some searching, I didn't hit on this one. I didn't know that ImgBurn could do this. Data-DVD's - okay. Thát I knew, but video-DVDs with imgburn, that is new to me. Again - many thanks. Will check it out.
Other than the specific usage of OP. Why use iso other than for OS? And which I'm supposing is only because it's bootable.
You have an entire disc stored as just a single file. Windows 10 has native support for mounting ISO files as a virtual drive.
Thank you roger_m for commenting. Really appreciated. In fact, in my case, my media player has a little bit of issues with playing \VIDEO_TS movies. It starts of alright, but regularly after some time (20 minutes, 30 or so), it often crashes. It starts 'stuttering', halting the play a few seconds and then continue. I know then it is going to stop playing. I can't shut it down, I really need to take the power off. It is an old thing and the company doesn't exist anymore. Maybe I should simply buy a new one. However, the player has no issues playing .iso files. So I am considering converting DVDs to .iso. (I know, it is a timeconsuming job)
The program I use to rip DVDs to ISO files is Ashampoo Burning Studio. The full version is available for a reasonable cost and there is also a free version which has reduced capabilities. Both are easy to use and rip or burn at a good speed. I then use Kodi running either on my Windows PC or my Android TV box to play the ISO files. This comes in very handy when I want to watch a DVD whose region code is not supported by our BD/DVD player. Simply rip the disc to an ISO then play using Kodi on the TV box which is connected via HDMI to our A/V receiver and on to the TV. I have found that some players do not produce sound and vision in sync when playing back ISO files. -- JB
@Jonathan B Thanks for your input! Please note your scenario slightly differs from mine. With me, the DVD's are located on my HDD (not on DVD). So I want to create an .iso of the movie on HDD and the .iso should be stored on HDD as well... i.e. it should -not- be burned to a DVD. Important thing is that the result should be that there will be both the source 'DVD-format movie' (with subfolder VIDEO_TS) on HDD as well as the .iso-file. It could be that some software have a DVD-drive as output destination only, meaning, the .iso can not saved to HDD. ('destination' : HDD, can not be selected then) With ImgBurn at least one can select the destination - I am giving that one a try.
