Talk:Optical disc image

4 ISO images, prepare theStrike-through textm 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 14:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Try UltraISO. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ[[Special--129.7.138.116 20:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)--129.7.138.116 20:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)--129.7.138.116 20:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)become corrupt." How exactly is this a con?--Shanel 15:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

This article seems long enough that it isn't a stub. Should the stub status be removed? Bmecoli 19:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Is there a program where I can play ISO fan movies on the PC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.253.47.76 (talk) 09:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Avoid DAEMON Tools...they've gone over the the "darkside" ;they distribute adware with their software now. Alcohol 120 is a good alternative M.U.D. 17:55, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure it's appropriate. First, it's a Mac OS X icon, so it MIGHT be copyrighted, and using it here wouldn't be fair use. Also, to readers unfamiliar with Mac OS X icons, it would appear at first glance as though ISOs are images of hard disks instead of CDs. Should the picture be changed? --M1ss1ontomars2k4 ^{(T | C | @)} 05:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the last statement - 8. Image - Could someone please remove the image or replace it with a more suitable image for the ISO file type.

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.200.70.122 (talk) 15:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Agreed regarding possible confusion to readers. Regarding copyright, the license info on the uploaded picture says "This is an icon of copyrighted computer software. It is believed that the exhibition of icons to illustrate or identify the computer software in question... qualifies as fair use." As this article is not about Mac OS X, the picture's use here likely is not considered fair use. I've removed the picture from this article. --Miken2005 08:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Funny, i clicked the link for this page, and Download Accelerator Plus (my download manager) tried to download it, thinking it was a file!--72.188.56.176 01:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the current version of the article it is written: "Better performance is achieved by running an ISO since there is no waiting for the drive to be ready and the hard drive I/O speed is many times faster than the CD/DVD drive." Last part seems not correct. Current hard drives's speed is about 80Mb/sec, however 52x CD-ROM have 62Mb/sec speed (data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdd and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrom#Transfer_rates). So it seems that hard drives are faster, but less then 2 times faster, then CD-ROM's (not "many times faster" as written in the article). I am not very good at the subject, so writing here in the talk page, not in the article, in hope that somebody with more knowledge will check this before posting. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.150.50.194 (talk • contribs) 08:00, May 20, 2007 (UTC)

The rate quoted for a hard drive was 80 MB/sec; for a 52X CD-ROM drive, 62 Mb/sec. MB is an abbreviation for "million bytes"; Mb is an abbreviation for "million bits". 80 million bytes per second is 640 million bits per second, about ten times as fast as the 62 million bits per second quoted for the CD-ROM drive. (Or think of it as 80 million bytes per second compared to a bit under 8 million bytes per second, for the hard drive and the CD-ROM drive, respectively.) Epylar 02:08, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The optical drive also takes quite long time to start spinning, and to skip to the right position on the disc. I have no real numbers for optical drives, but i think that hard drives typically only needs about 10 milliseconds to skip through the hard disk, and that is fast as hell. And usually hard drives are spinning all the time when the computer is turned on. By the way, MB and Mb doesnt really mean "millions" of bytes/bits. Normally, in computing, it means 1024^2, in contrast of 1000^2 that is one million. These abbreviations should be called Mebibyte, and Mebibit. 81.231.71.96 12:35, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

M is the SI abbreviation for "million" = 1000000. Mi is the SI abbreviation for ${\displaystyle 2^{20}=(2^{10})^{2}=1024^{2}=1048576}$. Often line transfer rates and non-volatile media capacities are in fact quoted in powers of 10, whereas RAM (for example) would be measured in multiples of powers of 2--512 MiB of RAM, and so on. Epylar 00:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a file format description. Says nothing about how data is stored in the ISO file, but on the other hand, I discusses thing like the ISO 9669 standard that really have nothing to do with ISO file format.