ImgBurn is a free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images with
ease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype /
bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can be
found in the ImgBurn context menus.ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!
Advanced functionality can be found in context menus that appear when you right click on various bits of the user interface.
It has several ‘Modes’, each one for performing a different task:
- Read – Read a disc to an image file
- Build – Create an image file from files on your computer or network – or you can write the files directly to a disc
- Write – Write an image file to a disc
- Verify
– Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn
compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is
correct - Discovery – Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats – including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
It
can burn Audio CD’s from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM –
including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV.
You
can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD
Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a
BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.
It supports Unicode folder/file names, so you shouldn’t run in to any problems if you’re using an international character set.
ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS’s – Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
It’s
a very flexible application with several advanced features that are
often lacking in other tools, especially when it comes to burning DVD
Video discs. It supports all the latest drives without the need for
updates (including booktype / bitsetting / advanced settings on many of
the major ones – i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Plextor, Samsung, Sony).
New in this Version:
- Added: ‘Explorer’ style file manager pane to the top of the Disc Layout Editor window (can be disabled via a button on the existing toolbar).
- Added: New 7.95GB, 23.3GB and 46.6GB file splitting options so the individual image file parts can be archived on DVD+R DL, BD-R or BD-R DL media.
- Added: An option so the user can control whether or not the program will not halt logging after ‘too many’ (1000) messages.
- Added: Option in the settings to automatically make the Disc Layout Editor window ‘stay on top’ (joins the existing one for the Write Queue window).
- Added: The user can now decide if ‘Reparse Point’ (A.K.A ‘Junction’) files/folders are included when scanning for files/folder to add to the compilation.
- Added: Option to prevent the program from blocking AutoPlay when it receives the ‘QueryCancelAutoPlay’ message from the OS (probably only when it’s in the foreground).
- Added: Support for detecting when the user might be attempting to build a DVD Audio disc.
- Added: Automatic change booktype support for the LiteOn drives using the NEC chipset (‘iHASxxx Y’ rather than ‘iHASxxx A’)
- Added: Added additional bits of information to the disc information panel on the right.
- Added: Support for a couple of other locations for the isolinux.bin file when trying to determine if it should automatically patch the boot-info-table.
- Added: When the program fails to create a directory for the destination file in Read/Build modes, it’ll now mention the reason rather than just saying it couldn’t do it.
- Added: Debug code for the functions that deal with the Taskbar’s progress bar type feature under Windows 7.
- Added: ‘Reset DMA’ feature to the ‘Tools’ menu. It’s just an internal version of the ‘ResetDMA.vbs’ script found on the Internet.
