But if he just burns the files and folders of a Blu-ray DVD to disc, it just remains a bunch of files and folders _ and in that state will a player know what to do with it, weather that player is licensed or un-licensed ?
I thought that it had to be in an ISO format/container to be of any use, other wise it's still just a bunch of files folders.
Hey Jeff.
You know, I thought the same thing when first learning about this stuff but ... what @Ch3vron said!
A Blu-ray, or any media disc for that matter,
is nothing but a group of folders. If you mount a disc and look at it in Explorer that's all there is.
Believe me, I've done it more than a few times. Using ImgBurn's "Write files/folders to disc" does create valid Blu-Rays and DVDs.
As Ch3vron says, some setting are involved but ImgBurn will figure those out for you and ask if you want to use its settings or customize your own. If, like me, you don't know a lot about customization, accepting its settings is the way to go.
If you already have an .iso and decide you'd like to burn it, then ofc you'd do an ImgBurn "Write Image file to disc". No setting are required for this -- I think ImgBurn just does a straight copy in this case.
There is a situation where an .iso
shouldn't be written to disc in ImgBurn and that's if it's an AnyDVD
protected .iso. ImgBurn will let you do it, but it won't play on any stand-alone because protections are still in place.
To burn a protected. iso, you'd have to mount it with AnyDVD running and - you guessed it - copy it's folders to the disc.
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