Can i burn compressed files

Rincewind Posted July 25, Posted July 25, If by compressed you mean a compressed disc image, no. It only burns standards ISO images. Do you know where the output of the compressed file is though? To be honest, I'm really bad with computers, I just right clicked the file and sent it to a compressed folder The files are ripped from a DVD I'm backing up my DVDs The original non compressed file is still there Do you have any advice on how I can make the file smaller but still be used with Imgburn?

Edited July 25, by Rincewind. Go to topic listing. For example, a list of such software is currently available here , and a comparison of this software is available here. The following instructions for using the Roxio and Nero software were provided by the National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board on this web page the instructions are repeated here to preclude broken links. Select the "Burn Image" feature. From Nero's File menu, select Burn Image.

Click "Preview" to see a preview of your DVD. Specifically, you need to make sure the quality of the video is something you can live with. Navigate to where the data files you want to burn to an oversized DVD are located on your computer. Because Windows DVD Maker can't compress data files automatically to make them fit a disc the same way it compresses video files, you'll need to compress the files you want to burn to a DVD outside of the program using the compression utility native to Windows.

Select the files you want to compress and then right-click one of the files to open a context menu. Click "Send To" to open a fly-out menu.

But the relaxation may not be standardised itself and be inconsistent and unpredictable results with sharing with other people. At least the. Rob good point on the filename stuff. There are extensions to the ISO spec, but as extensions, aren't guaranteed. If the archive to optical disc, e. However, given that these are a diminishing minority, UDF is recommended if unlikely that older machines need to read the archive, also avoiding inconvenience and the more damage sensitive.

Show 2 more comments. Brian Brian 2, 16 16 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. It operates in 2 main modes: Building error correction files from an existing preferably freshly-burnt disc or disc image ISO. You'll have to store these somewhere else, but they can be used to both verify that the disc is still readable without error or recover data from a damaged disc. Modifying a disc image with ECC data before burning.

All the data needed to check and recover damaged data is available on the disc. Of course, this means that you need to leave some space free on your disc to accommodate the ECC data, but if it was already available there's no additional loss there.

The point of dvdisaster is that you use it before you get into that position, so you can recover your data when it really matters. It's always been a concern of mine, I rely on DVD media for backup, but I also group these into a Blu-ray backup and hard disc backup and maybe some of the data goes to online storage or as part of an online service such as flickr or youtube. Archival is a very nasty situation to be in.

It's really difficult to just "put stuff on a shelf" and forget about it. Just dealing with the media itself, you have to have a method by which you can make sure it's readable and that you have hardware which you can load media into.

Just because your shelf of QIC tapes has been sitting in perfect storage doesn't mean you have a drive that can read them. Even if you did, do you have a PC to hook them to?

And that's without getting into the problems of file formats and format conversion, if necessary. With regards to burning ZIPs, rather than individual files, to optical media: Is it more reliable?

Is it faster? Is it longer lasting? Community Bot 1. Iszi Iszi For the "more reliable" point, with a zip file suddenly a scratch flips the wrong bit and the entire archive becomes unusable, rather than just the damaged portion.