LIGHTNING UK! released today, his latest version of ImgBurn. This well known and appreciated program is one of the best burning softwares available, and thanks to the author it's also free.
From the ImgBurn webpage:
ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it
supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the
major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to
erase / format your rewritable media!
ImgBurn will try its very best to
burn your DVD-Video double layer images using the layer break you've specified
in the IFO files, but it can also calculate the best place for you, to save you
the trouble.
Besides
some bugfixes, version 2.0.0.0 has many new features, the most interesting one is that ImgBurn now can create ISO files starting from files on your hard disc.
What's new in this version: - 'Build' mode for creating ISO's from files on
your hard disk, or burning them direct to a disc.
- Capturing Processor usage is now optional.
- Option to change the thread priority of the
'Graph Data' thread. Might give more accurate results on some PC's.
- Workaround for Windows Vista where the system
tray icon wouldn't display the initial (top most) 'Restore ImgBurn' item
because it had the 'Default' flag set.
- Additional variations of the 'Send Cue Sheet'
command when the initial attempt fails.
- If 'Send Cue Sheet' now fails because the drive
is sooooo old it doesn't support SAO burning, the program will revert to
TAO.
- Option to make Verify mode just test
readability of the disc itself and not verify against an image file.
- Verify mode now reports (for all modes) the
file mapped to any unreadable sector at a given LBA address.
- Buffer Recovery (+ user configurable threshold
settings) for times when burning and hdd goes mental, meaning device
buffer empties. This means less start / stopping for the drive.
- Option to set read speed for Verify mode (any type of verify, in the case where it's being done after burn etc).
32bit colour Icons to the icon used for 'default'
file associations.
- When the program needs another disc as part of
queued burns (and it's not the foreground window), it now flashes the
taskbar button.
- A rating system to the layerbreak
positions/screens. Should make it easier to pick the best one.
- Added/Changed: The
'Wait For +RW Background Format' option into a 'Prefer Properly
Formatted +RW' option. When checked, the program waits for background
format to finish and will also prompt to format (before writing) any
disc that's in the 'Formatted: No' or 'Formatted: No (Started)' states.
When unchecked, it will only prompt when in the 'Formatted: No' state
(i.e. when it really has to format).
- 'Mark as Burnt' to the Queue window context
menu.
- New startup screen on OS's supporting layered
windows.
- A new item to the main menu called 'Output'.
This is visible in ISO Build mode and lets you switch between building
to an image file or doing on-the-fly to a device (drive).
- '/VOLUMELABEL' CLI parameter for ISO Build
mode.
- '/NOIMAGEDETAILS' CLI parameter for use in ISO
Build mode. Does the same thing at ticking 'Don't Prompt Image Details'
in the settings.
- '/OVERWRITE' CLI parameter for use in ISO Build mode.
Support for detecting device arrival / removal. 'Copies' to the main window - as such,
logic behind queue has had to change (as has the Queue window).
- '/COPIES' CLI command for use in ISOWRITE mode.
- Ability to load/save settings to a '.ini' file.
File name passed via '/SETTINGS' CLI command or will default to
'ImgBurn.ini' in the exe's directory.
- 'Eject Tray' checkbox to all the transfer
screens. Whatever that box is set to is now what the program does at the
end of the burn (or burn + verify).
- Additional MD5 calculations to
Build/Write/Verify modes where I thought they'd be handy - logged when
operation completes successfully.
- Ability to eject the tray after write ONLY when
there are additional images in the queue.
- Copies + speed info to the burn progress
screen.
- Support for '.IBB' files - these are plain text
backup project files. See 'ReadMe.txt' for additional information.
- Support for '/FILESYSTEM' CLI command for use
in ISOBUILD mode.
- Support for CloneCD's updated version of my old
'.dvd' file (from DVD Dec days) where it also contains layerbreak
information.
- More image info to verify / write main screens
(to fill empty space!) - due to additional real estate needed for
'Build' mode.
- Files > 1GB and that have sizes divisible
(exactly) by 2048 are now just always accepted for burning - regardless
of presence of 'supported' filesystems in the image.
- 'ImgBurn Statistics' to the 'Help' menu.
- '/LOG' CLI switch to auto save the log to
specified file (overrides setting / filename in settings window).
- '/INFO' CLI switch to save Info panel
information to specified file the first time a disc is fully recognised
/ checked.
- The installer now writes out the options
(Desktop/Quick Launch icon etc) to the registry so those options are
preserved if you install again.
- Ability to Load/Eject disc from Queue window.
Improved file association removal code
within the uninstaller.
- List of (supported!) file systems used within
an image to the log and to the tooltip on the volume label.
- Ability to sort the queue asc/desc by clicking
on the column header.
- Workaround for some old drives that wouldn't
report a disc as being erasable.
- Option to ignore IFO/Filesystem layerbreak
positions and revert to VOBU/ECC scanning.
- Option to set the chosen layerbreak position as
'seamless' via a checkbox in the 'select layer break position' / 'create
layer break position' dialog boxes.
- Option to tell the program NOT to update the
IFO/BUP files.
- Verify mode can now collect data / produce IBG
files in its own right.
- Added/Changed: Use of ComboBoxEx for device dropdown lists when running under Vista. The standard customdraw ComboBox didn't theme properly.
What's changed in this version:
- Processor performance counters are now
initialised earlier to reduce the delay when the 'GraphData' thread
starts.
- Even when you load the ISO rather than the MDS
file, the MDS (with the same name) will still be deleted if you opt to
delete the image.
- IBG files are now made to version 2 specs.
You'll need an updated DVDInfoPro to view them.
- Max speed can now be 33% larger than the
average value (was 20%) - otherwise it's ignored - probably a spike.
- Shortcut keys for modes/log window/queue window
have been changed - forced due to nature of keypressing in new 'Build'
mode. Old shortcuts do still work for Write/Verify/Discovery modes
though.
- 'L' and 'E' on Load/Eject buttons have been
replaced by some pictures.
- Updated 'ReadMe.txt' file with new CLI stuff.
- The little picture of the drive in the device dropdown boxes is now greyed out for all devices except the active one.
Bug Fixes: - Drag + Drop of some items could look like it
was going to work (going by the mouse cursor) but then didn't actually
do anything (Effected Build mode's 'Source' box, the 'Queue' window and
the 'Create DVD MDS File' window).
- When setting SPLIP flag in IFO/BUP files as a
result of layerbreak stuff, it now checks the previous cell doesn't have
a cell command before doing so.
- MSF values found in the 16 byte header of some
CD sectors sizes (as part of internal conversion routines) were being
calculated/stored in normal decimal format, not BCD (binary coded
decimal).
- Selecting 'Incremental' and burning a CD meant
all kinds of weird things happened. As Incremental doesn't work on CD
(or at least not in ImgBurn), it'll always force SAO mode burning.
- Transparency problem with the 48x48x32 program icon.
Unfinalised multisession discs where last
session was empty were reported as being totally empty - meaning the
program didn't prompt to erase them - meaning the burn then failed.
- Couldn't open read-only files (via the 'Open'
dialog box) using Windows 98.
- Problem with non all-numeric OS 'short dates'
in IBG files. The export function would bomb out because Borland's
Date/Time functions wouldn't convert the string (taken from the IBG)
back into a 'TDateTime' object. i.e. '2/July/2006 12:00:00' would fail
where '2/7/2006 12:00:00' would work fine.
- Error message boxes shown from within threads
did not stop other windows from becoming inactive.
- Problem where freshly formatted +RW media with
unreadable sectors (not normal! - probably means burn will fail anyway)
was not considered as writable.
- (Workaround) For a problem with Borlands
resource compiler where icons have their index's messed up - this
stopped the icon for file associations from working properly.
- Problem with Queue sort order not resetting
when going between 'sort by name' and 'sort by name (ignore path)'.
- Unnecessary creation of reg keys for file types
where association was disabled.
- 'Standard' user accounts got errors when
closing the program down (failing to set file associations) - Maybe it
is just visible in Vista?
- Problem updating volume labels in UDF
filesystem if previously there was no volume label at all.
- Acceleration character (an '_') was shown in
the Queue window for images containing an '&' in the volume label or
file name.
- IBG CPU % usage stats on non English PC's.
- Incorrect 'Start In' property for
shortcuts/icons created by the installer.
- Incorrect conversion of UDF revision field
resulted in some weird values being reported.
- Problem where displaying IBG file with minimum
required version of DVDInfoPro would show an error.
- IBQ files couldn't be loaded from the CLI and
still keep all the correct settings - selected device info was lost.
- The Log window's open/save dialog boxes used
the 'filename' path (part of internal structure) as the default folder,
rather than the 'initialdir' path - so they didn't default to the
correct 'Most Recently Used' folder.
- Compressing the exe with PECompact meant the
2nd application icon was compressed and so didn't show up for associated
file extensions.
- Deferred errors caught by the 'WaitImmediateIO'
function were not being correctly copied to the parent function - this
could cause a crash.
- File Association code wasn't clearing up the registry properly.
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If you are using this program and you would like to
see more drives supported, then consider making a donation to the author. For
those new to this program, or others wanting this latest release, please feel
free to visit the ImgBurn homepage for
more information and a download.
Source: ImgBurn