Talk:ISO image
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[edit] STUPID bots
ok i tried doing a minor correction to the 7-zip entry, that being it is open source software, not free software. Often, open source software is free, but it is not the same as freeware. People can charge for its distribution, so long as the GNU/GPL/etc is adhered to in the process. Freeware is proprietry software with explicit documentation prohibiting people from charging for its distribution. A minor edit yes, but a bot keeps changing it back, and the factual details are suffering for it. God only knows how often this sort of minor fixing gets undone by a bot.
- That's not a bot, I accidentally reverted it. I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Multiple ISO images to burn in one disk
I have 4 different ISO images that I am trying to fit into a DVD/RW. Each of the images does not exceed 1Gig. However, I have no tool that can help me collect all 4 ISO images, prepare them to be ready for writing to the disk. Do you know any tool/software that can assist on this? The tool I have can only identify an ISO image from source and have it ready for writing. Any help is appreciated. ~storm
An ISO image, by its very nature, contains all the information about and on the disk in one file. You can use a DVD/RW to contain the ISO images as files just by burning them to the disk as files just as you could put any type of file on a DVD/RW. You cannot, however burn multiple ISOs to the same disk because, the information contained within the ISO can only be on the disk once.
- "As is typical for disc images, in addition to the data files that are contained in the ISO image, it also contains all the filesystem metadata, (boot code, structures, and attributes). All of this information is contained in a single file..."
You could however, take the files out of the ISOs and then group them together into one ISO for burning. --216.254.136.67 14:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Try UltraISO. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 15:27, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I've never heard the greek explanation for the term ISO before; I always believed it was from the ISO9660 filesystem. Why else would ISO always be capitalized?
ANSWER: ISO refers to the International Organization for Standardization. CD-ROM's use the ISO 9660 standard filesystem.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization
What is the point of the stricken-out text? ugen64 23:03, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Correct me if I'm wrong, but ...
shouldn't the description of the .cue/.bin format go elsewhere, since it is not an ISO format? Perhaps under disk image? -- Antaeus Feldspar 08:16, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] What does this mean?
One of the cons listed for an ISO image is "Can rarely become corrupt." How exactly is this a con?--Shanel 15:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Pro/Cons Discussion sounds fishy
The Pro/Cons Discussion of the ISO file vs physical CD sounds extremly fishy and useless to me, the one is a data format the other is a physical medium to storing said data format, so they are completly different things, so which one one uses depends solly on what one wants todo with it. Having a discussion about .iso vs .cue/.bin and other image formats would be far more usefull. It would probally be best to merge this article with Disk image, since discussing .iso on its own isn't all that informative. -- Grumbel 00:05, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with Grumbel about the .iso file vs physical CD comparison - the article implies that console emulation is the predominant use of iso files, which simply isn't the case. At the very least, .iso files are commonly seen on p2p networks as images of CDs and DVDs. Also, if .iso files are compared to physical discs, shouldn't they also be compared with other file formats for disk images? As written, the comparison is really between disc images and physical discs; it has little to do with .iso files specifically. I don't personally agree, though, that this article should be merged with Disk image - when I recently (5 minutes ago) wanted to know what exactly an .iso file is (how is it different from other disk image files? will my computer automatically mount such a file or do I need to download a program?), this article was extremely helpful to me. Answered my questions immediately. Although, if the 'common formats' list in the Disk image article remains quite prominent, I suppose a redirect to Disk image would work just fine - I do prefer the convenience of this discrete article, but that's just me.
- Mathtinder 15:14, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stub?
This article seems long enough that it isn't a stub. Should the stub status be removed? Bmecoli 19:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Software
I know I shouldn't ask here but I know you all know and can help me. Is there any freeware ISO image creator/editor (this one more important to me)/burner?? All those shareware programs available on internet can only fill ISOs up to 300 MB (if you don't buy the program); and I tried AVS Disc Creator but it couldn't open Please help me, this could be useful for a lot of people. --Coldplayer 21:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
- Though I agree that this is certainly not the place for this request, I would personally recommend Imgburn
NAJohnson 22:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Movies
Is there a program where I can play ISO fan movies on the PC? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 161.253.47.76 (talk) 09:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Try DAEMON Tools to mount the ISO image file, then your favourite media player (try VLC media player or Media Player Classic) to play the movie. But please remember, this page is for discussing the article, not movie downloads of dubious legality. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 19:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
