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Posted by Mike S. on 04/27/06 23:00
In article <shs1529eoq5qna4slmackjc59fq4c379vq@4ax.com>,
Terry Pinnell <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>Although I'm still virtually a novice, I thought I'd now just about
>grasped what an 'image' was. And in particular that an image of a DVD
>was *different* to the combined folder you get on HD after authoring a
>DVD, which contains the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. But in
>DeepBurner Pro the first operation (top button) when preparing to burn
>is SPECIFY IMAGE, which it describes as specifying the two folders
>above.
>
>I emailed DeepBurner Pro Support and asked them if they were using the
>term image wrongly, instead of 'video files', but they said:
>"No, this term used properly because those folders (VIDEO_TS and
>AUDIO_TS) form IMAGE for the videoDVD."
>
>So was my understanding incorrect? I still don't quite get it. If I
>use a program to 'write an image' of a DVD to my HD, it doesn't appear
>as a set of BUP, IFO & VOB files, so how can these terms be the same?
"Image" in this context means an .ISO file ... a standards-defined
(ISO 9660) data file which contains a snapshot of the entire structure
of the CD or DVD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image
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