jmone
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I think that the basis of selecting media type (CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray) by size of the ISO instead of it's content not a great idea. In reality the Size of a ISO does does not define what media format it is so:
1) No way of telling HD-DVD's from Blu-rays
2) A small Blu-ray ISO will appar as a DVD
etc
etc
I know that the DVD tag file allows AnyDVD HD to then mount the ISO correctly but in thinking about this some more the issues are:
1) You have to have created the ISO with a later verion of AnyDVD HD
2) You have to mount the DVD tag file NOT the ISO (causes problems with lack of file associations in Media Managers)
Couple of Ideas -
1) AnyDVD HD can obviously "see" what is in the ISO and determine if it is a HD-DVD / Blu-ray / DVD etc so it can do it's magic (which we all love!). So when an ISO is mounted and AnyDVD HD does it stuff why not have it also "fix" the Media Type to the correct media format as well?
2) Use some of the AnyDVD HD code that can determine the content of an ISO into VCD so it can select the Media Type based on the content instead of just the size?
Workaround - I think the easiest workaround (for now), let us mount the ISO's as normal (instead of the DVD file) but have VCD just check if there is an associated DVD file of the same name in the same directory and let it set the media type based on the MEDIATYPE setting in that associated files. This lets us:
1) Keep mounting / managing ISO files as normal
2) Have your DVD file for additional information as created by AnyDVD HD
3) Allows us to manually create DVD Files for ISO's created prior to the recent AnyDVD HD or with other progs.
Anyway my 2cents....
Thanks
Nathan
1) No way of telling HD-DVD's from Blu-rays
2) A small Blu-ray ISO will appar as a DVD
etc
etc
I know that the DVD tag file allows AnyDVD HD to then mount the ISO correctly but in thinking about this some more the issues are:
1) You have to have created the ISO with a later verion of AnyDVD HD
2) You have to mount the DVD tag file NOT the ISO (causes problems with lack of file associations in Media Managers)
Couple of Ideas -
1) AnyDVD HD can obviously "see" what is in the ISO and determine if it is a HD-DVD / Blu-ray / DVD etc so it can do it's magic (which we all love!). So when an ISO is mounted and AnyDVD HD does it stuff why not have it also "fix" the Media Type to the correct media format as well?
2) Use some of the AnyDVD HD code that can determine the content of an ISO into VCD so it can select the Media Type based on the content instead of just the size?
Workaround - I think the easiest workaround (for now), let us mount the ISO's as normal (instead of the DVD file) but have VCD just check if there is an associated DVD file of the same name in the same directory and let it set the media type based on the MEDIATYPE setting in that associated files. This lets us:
1) Keep mounting / managing ISO files as normal
2) Have your DVD file for additional information as created by AnyDVD HD
3) Allows us to manually create DVD Files for ISO's created prior to the recent AnyDVD HD or with other progs.
Anyway my 2cents....
Thanks
Nathan
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